[tschiller]

You can also formulate the problem as a dynamic programming problem.

Here's a Java repo I made back in college solving the simpler problem: given a tab, what's the easiest fingering to play it? https://github.com/twschiller/optimal-guitar.

It works by modeling the (1) the difficulty of hand positions, and (2) transitions

[senshu]

Definitely. This could be the next step in my exploration of programming techniques to solve this problem. I will have a look at your implementation.