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The only way I found was through repetition. Picking songs I love was part of the success as I had to play them thousands of times. As I get further down the road, I realize the songs I liked were prototypical. One song applies to about 100 others. By learning one song so well I could wear it intuitively, I was learning 100s of others.
That learning period between when you start and when you are ready to play out is tough to endure. That is one of the beauties of sharing stuff you are working on here. We all know how it goes. Here we look at the presentation and identify what is good. It is less about what needs to improve as that is the point of being here. The presenter is always very aware, more than anyone else, what needs work.
Playing and recording your play speeds up progress especially with learning a song but is not exclusive to song learning. Share you recording or not, that is up to you but the exercise of recording should be worked into your music practices for fastest results.