Recommended · for some experience
Professional SMT Soldering: Hand Soldering Techniques - Surface Mount
Why people recommend it
A professional demonstration of drag soldering a fine-pitch surface mount chip, linked to show that small packages can be hand soldered with flux and a steady drag.
Watch for: Plenty of flux is the trick; see around two minutes in
In their words
A YouTube video mentioning several manual SMD soldering/rework techniques - by John Gammell
frr on electronics.stackexchange.com, Apr 2018. CC BY-SA.