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Hello @Noncenx and welcome to TAC. It sounds like you haven’t taken the course “TAC Quick Start“. Tony explains how the site and the program work. After you have completed the “30 Days to Play Challenge”, you will want to take the “5 Day Guitar Routine Challenge” course. In that course, Tony will explain how to use the videos and the daily challenges to continue having fun and seeing steady improvement in your guitar skills.
Ok, regarding you chords, the first thing is to recognize it will take time. You can have fun anyway if you approach this like a child would. They are full of wonder and don’t have expectations. Rejoice at what you can do. Use what you can’t do to direct your practice. You will spend a few minutes each day working on the things that are challenging to you. But then move on.
Two of the “Skill Courses” that can help you with your chords are the “Fretting Hand Toolbox” and the “Daily Stretch for Guitar” courses.
What I can tell you is that it takes time. Start with one chord at a time. Experiment with the position of your fingers, wrist, elbow and even the position of your guitar until you can get one chord to sound clean. You can also use partial chord shapes at first. If holding all 3 fingers for the C chord is just too difficult, start with the ring and middle fingers holding the A string and the D string and play a C major 7 chord. As time goes on, you will eventually be able to play a regular, 3 finger, C chord.
I hope this helps.
MG 😀