Advice for playing?

Hi Adam.... I dont know your skill level, so will just put out my advice.
With the development of tab, computers, & internet, guitar learning has become a much faster process. In my teens, we had none of these & relied on our ears by picking up the record needle & replaying over & over guitar parts. I/we went threw the hard knocks of learning, but also developed good ears for really learning the tones & sounds & notes.

Paul McCartney said that when he was a kid,and learning guitar, he and his band mates took the city bus accross town to see a guy who knew the B7 chord....that's kinda how us older guys learned.!
I fear with tab, that new players will just zip threw it and learn the song, but not develop feeling, or vibrato to the song, or develop their ear, or eventually their own personal style. Unfortunately alot of the newer music has alot of speed without feeling, or is so distorted, you dont know what chord they are playing.
Guitar learning comes in steps & is sometimes a slow process that becomes tedious and boring. But once you learn a certain skill, like hammer-ons, or using your pinky finger, your learning of new songs just takes off and becomes easier. The bottom line is you need a good foundation to a house before you can start building on top of it . So you could initially  jump ahead and learn to do speed runs, but then thats it, where do you go next. My advice is split your guitar time in half with learning the technical stuff, but also have some blazing loud fun time. And when you get bored or too frustrated, put the guitar down for a while. Overall guitar learning gets hard, then gets easy. You cant move to the next level until you master the lower levels.
I NEVER played with anyone else as I was learning....cause there were no other guitarists around. Get around some other players who are better or are of the same level as you & have fun learning from them. These better players will motivate you to improve between practice sessions.
I first learned off of Hank Williams (Sr.) records with ''Hey Good Lookin'' .... a 3 chord song strum that had that trickey G7 chord in it....My ears learned that that ''7th'' chord sounds good moving into a transition in the song, and to this day, when I hear a chord pattern going on in a song, and then hear a chord that sounds distressed and makes your eyebrows raise,.... I guess it is some type of 7th chord....that's ear training and understanding ... the (sorry to say) slow hard way. Wow! figuring out the mystery G7 chord by repeatedly lifting the record needle, which forced me to focus hard on chord patterns and sharpened my ear to listen for that distinct 7th note/chord sound.
If you learn threw tab...and I Love it to,....eventually take the time to understand how the notes and chords all work together. I'm struggling with a Joe Perry solo that was tabbed. The hardest part is getting the groove & feel going with my playing. Tabulature can make you play mechanical, and hamper mastery of the solo/song.!!!!
Songs I learned by ear I remember much longer than the ones I quickly learned threw tab.....so unfortunately or fortunately, ....learning guitar stuff the slow way does pay off in many respects. The hardest part overall, to overcome, may be,  the frustration level of the learner..... Take care ! Have Fun!.>> DAN