Originally Posted by: fauzoolIve also just started learning and am frustrated with my fingers! I have a problem with my pointer finger always following my middle finger I cant seem to hold a string down with my pointer on first fret and string and then go to second fret first string with middle it always slides, im not sure how I can prevent this

I have a Epiphone Les Paul if you wanted to know.

First, I want to point out that the pointer and middle finger will be two of the hardest to stretch from one another, simply because of the anatomy of your flexor tendons. They're just really close together.

However, you should be able to get one fret of playing space between your pointer and middle finger, meaning your pointer finger could play a note on the first fret, while your middle finger played a note on the second and so forth.

If you can't do this, you might want to try some basic stretching with these two notes:

E|--------
B|--------
G|--------
D|--------
A|--------
E|--3--4--

Just work that exercise until you're comfy, and you can avoid sliding, then try something like this:

E|--------
B|--------
G|--------
D|--------
A|-----4--
E|--3-----

You'll also need to think about "anchoring" your pointer finger so it doesn't slide.

However, if you're playing a melody line (moving from one note to the next) it's ok to slide up to the next note.

Hope this helps!

If you need to clarify anything, have further questions or if I've misunderstood your question, just let me know.