I might have titled this thread badly, I'm not having too much trouble getting my pinky to go where I want to and it mostly behaves. It definitely needs a lot of work to strengthen, the problem I'm mostly having is getting it to stay in position close to the strings. It seems to lift higher and higher as I progress up the fingers and so it is travelling much further than it needs to slowing me down a little.
JeffS65 - I'm finding something similar, 1-2-3-4 pinky is off in the air, been doing 1-4-2-4-3-4 and it stays exactly where it should. struggling to work out what's different.
Elliott - I've been playing 18 years but only really messed around for the first 3-4 years got to an OK level for a bit of fun: standard chords, power chords, barre chords etc but never really progressed that far.
Then didn't play too much until I started here 2 years ago and have progressed further then I ever did when I was younger.
maggior - Thanks for practice recommendation I shall add it to my list :).
Again thank you Christopher, that's a lot to work on and will hopefully make a big difference.