Hey everyone,

I am just starting out and staring to lean power chords. Up until now Ive only been doing open chords with the first 3 or 4 frets where my strings are super close to the fretboard. But ow that I am working with the middle of the neck, my strings are significantly farther away from the fretboard as before and it makes chord changes much more difficult. I do not have an action guage, all I have is a standard measuring ruler. I measured the distance between the fretboard and string for the low E string at the 12th fret and the string is about 7-8mm away from the fretboard. Is this normal?

I do not know much about guitars other than what I have learned from this site. I have a squier strat for reference so lowering the strings seems like an easy turn of an allen key.