G'day John.

Your experience isn't abnormal mate. In a word, [u]patience[/u], and don't be too hard on yourself in your [u]initial[/u] expectation of progress.

Like an intrinsic natural sense of rhythm, everyone has different levels of intrinsic natural coordination along with different shaped hands, fingers and finger tips -accident of genetics. Of course, regardless those, age with its diminished reflexes, motor skill acquisition rate and for many in their senior years here scarring, injury acquired over a lifetime along with inevitible development of even miild osteoarthriitus does us no favour either.

The overwhelming majority who persevere will improve with exposure. The formula is persistent consistent effort put in over time. BTW, acoustic will make you particularly aware of every finger fumble, as there's nowhere to hide behind gain or distortion from those errors. [br][br]Another consideration you might like to look into is the gauge of strings you have fitted. The nature and thickness of wound acoustic strings make fretting clean notes more of a challenge than on an electric, so check the gauge of strings you have fitted. It may be of benefit in your case to consider a lghter gauge set. Most companies fit .12s or .13s out of the box to acoustics. Particularly Dreadnoughts can frequently come with .13s fitted default. Personally I prefer .12s fitted to my own acoustics, and they are light enough for me and were as a rank beginner, but some beginners do step down to .10s or even lighter until they come to grips with fretting and develop calluses. Cheers.