Oh I know I will, I imagine it everytime I pick the guitar up.
You are also practicing some chords, yes? You're not just doing scales, I hope?
For now, your practice COULD (remember, I'm not your teacher!) look like you playing a chord and strumming it once down and once up. Your goal is to play it absolutely clean. Every string, that should be played, should ring clean - including any strings that are open. Nothing should be unintentionally muted.
Then, you change to the next chord, and do the same thing - playing each chord just once, but strumming it twice.
E A D G C, for starters. Throw in a B and an F later, as they're usually more difficult. Throw in an A minor, E minor, and a Dm7.
When you're done with that, you can learn the barre chord shapes and how to finger them properly, but that'll be a good start.
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?
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