Recording is a great way to learn Noodler, I always have a tab or lyrics in front of me if I'm doing a particular song, my recording quality isn't that good due to some problems but recording what you've done and playing it back does tend to give you a better idea of where you're going and if you have a good session it is quite rewarding to play it back and think yeah actually that sounds quite good so I think it's a good idea. I'm still pretty new but I think our biggest enemy is frustration if things really aren't going well sometimes it's best to move on and come back to it, this just gives us time to think about where we're going wrong.
I always play a song on my mp3 quite a lot if I'm learning one, the repetition allows me to get a real feel for the song.
The suggestions above are good, it is better to take it slow and nail all the changes and then build up speed, I struggle a lot but I get their eventually small steps are better than big ones in my opinion
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