This is one easy fun way to learn your instrument.
Play along with records.
Whenever I read Guitar Player mag interviews, the best guitarists always say that they learned how to play by playing along with records of their favorite musicians.
I've found it to be a good way to learn because of these reasons:
You learn the songs
You learn the keys and chords that make up keys
You learn the fretboard if you are soloing
You learn the fretboard if you are figuring out the chords
It sharpens your ear
You learn how to improvise
You get inside the composer/songwriters head
Try it out. If it's really hard, pick easy songs and go from there. Always start with the possible and go toward the impossible.
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Yes, I am guilty of that.
Playing along helps me so much to listen to the timing, rather than make it up in my own head, and play out of time.
I also play along with my MRS-8 Zoom recording studio, because it has over 500 drum/bass tracks in it which allow me to try different scales out in improvisation, and also play in time.
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