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Hi @Gord001, and welcome to the TAC community!! It’s great that you are working through your carpal tunnel recovery and keeping at your guitar lessons faithfully!!
All I can offer is an assurance that NO you are NOT just too dumb for this… Everybody learns things in their own way and in their own time. I’ve been playing for almost 7 years and I STILL count the names of the strings when someone is trying to teach me something. And I use the same Eddy Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddy, hahaha. You see, I don’t play “notes” in my mind, I play shapes and positions. So if someone tells me to play a note I have to stop and figure it out. Or play a b string… I need to say the Eddy thing… But if you show me a TAB/music, my brain can say, Oh, I need my finger to fret the 3rd fret on the 2nd string… who cares what note it is….
So I am agreeing with Michael, that you may need to write things out in a way that your brain and your fingers can more easily decipher it, so that you are able to move past the frustration and get to the fun part of playing some music 🙂