Which fretting hand fingers do you use to play notes two frets apart (like 5 -7 -9)?

This may sound like a silly question but lately I’ve noticed that while I have been trained to use fingers 1 2 and 4 to play frets 5-7-9, 3-5-7, 7-9-11 etc. but when I go past fret 14-15 using the same finger combination feels really difficult. Stretching the second finger away from the first feels especially difficult on the low a and e strings. I discovered this while practicing the descending 6 note pattern in Technical difficulties. It throws off my two hand synchronization. What somewhat solved the issue was using 1 -3 -4 fingers for such patterns past the 14th fret but then I have to train myself to use them in 3 nps sequences (fingers normally default to 1-2-4). So I am just curious what fingers do you guys use for the said pattern?

  • Fingers 1-2-4 on higher frets
  • Fingers 1-3-4 on higher frets
  • Fingers 1-2-4 everywhere
  • Fingers 1-3-4 everywhere

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