What do you mean to old to be a beginner? Horsefeathers!, You aren't too old to start, you are too young to quit trying! Seriously, people come to this site all the time with that same "Am I too old" question, and you aren't even close to being one of the oldest, I was 20 years old when I started and I thought I was too old!, what did I know?, All that is happening with you now is that you are starting up the learning curve, which as you can tell has alot to do with just getting control of your fingers, right hand - left hand coordination, training that stupid pinky finger to act right, just don't push yourself too hard, or expect overnight results, just keep at it and remember it's supposed to be fun! Soon all this will be in the past and you'll find a new problem to struggle with( Hows that for encouragement?) A couple of tips from an old timer, 1, a fretting hand exercise, starting on any string, at any fret, fret a note with your index finger, pick it, 1 fret higher ring finger, pick, ring etc, pinky etc, and then descend back down to the index, don't press any harder than it takes to produce a clean note and keep the non-fretting fingers relaxed, work on playing cleanly and evenly, 2. You may or may not know this, if you do then disreguard, make sure when tabbing or playing tab that your guitar is tuned to the recording you are playing along with, ie your D chord sounds like a D chord played on the recording, you may have to tune down from standard pitch, alot of guitarist tune down a 1/4 to a 1/2 tone lower than standard, I hope I was of some help or encouragement, Keep at it! Yes it gets easier...............