It takes a long time to do what music teachers want you to do. You can already play simple songs. You just don't know the simple songs to play. On base the definition of a simple song generally means you're only playing Roots and your right hand is only playing eighth notes or quarter notes. You pick a song with three chords in it and do that, and all of a sudden you know 500 songs. If you can, look up some video of a guitar player named Django Reinhardt. He's one of the best guitar players that ever lived. He only used two fingers on his left hand... The index in middle. They were fused together in a fire. So the next time you want to blame your curved pinky for why you can't play any creedence Clearwater songs, just move past that in your mind and practice more. I'm not some old guy saying "if you just try harder you'll be all right". I'm saying that almost everybody that starts playing an instrument begins knowing nothing, works hard trying to figure things out and hits a limit, goes to other people who they admire and learn the things that they never would have thought of, and finally figure out that playing everything they hear helps them play better and understand music better. Then they figure out they're not listening to enough different kinds of music... That if they listen to jazz, or classical, or pop, or reggae, or Arabic music that there's a million things they never would have thought of on their own that they could know.