I've played around with chords, and the beginnings of a few songs but most of the time I have just been playing scales. You gave me a task of sorts(I know you are not my teacher) and I plan to master it.
You can do both! But, scales will help you learn to control your fingers. Right now, they probably still don't do what you want them to do. That'll take years, before you really have 'em behaving well.
So, when you get bored with scales - do some chords!
You can learn the power chords.
Do power chords on 7th, 5th, and 3rd frets. Listen to the song and, sure enough, you're playing Hendrix' version of All Along The Watchtower. Go ahead and use a third finger and fret the same fret that you'd fret with your second finger. So, 7 9 9, 5 7 7, and 3 7 7.
When it comes time to solo, just use the pentatonic on the 7th fret and do the math to figure out how to work it up from there!
Later, you'll learn that those power chords are just part of the 'grand barre' chord in the E minor shape. You can even do 'em in the A minor shape! Any open chord can also be played as a barre chord, but your fingers won't let you play some shapes and you don't have enough fingers for some shapes - unless you have fingers that you've not told me about?
Right now they don't seem to want to do what I tell them, but it does seem to get a little easier each time I pick it up.
I have played around with power chords, it seems like they are pretty fun to play. I'll give that sequence a try and see what I get. I'll bet it won't be pretty but I'll try it anyway, no other way to learn.
I don't believe I have ever said how many fingers I have. Perhaps I'll grow a few more as apparently have one or two extra would be useful.
I'm not sure how well this is gonna work in text. Listen to Hendrix play All Along The Watchtower.
Now, your count is 7th fret, 1 2; 5th fret, and a 1 2 3; 3rd fret, 1 2; 5th fret, and a 1 2 3. Then, just repeat that. Play it over and over again until you get bored playing the song. It pretty much (can) go on like that for the whole thing. But, use a pentatonic on the 7th and you can lay down a pretty bitchin' solo, here and there, and nobody will be the wiser.
If you want to play it like Bob Dylan, it's actually those same chords - but they're played open. Bm(something), A minor (or an A works just fine) and G.
You can cheat the G chord, but you shouldn't learn this.
Learning this is a bad idea.
If you loop your thumb over the third fret - so that you're fretting the low E with your thumb - then mute the next string by touching it but not touching it hard enough to make it fret or buzz, and then just use your pointer on the third fret on the high E string.
Don't learn that. That's a horrible thing to learn.
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