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Learn to pick songs off the CD's yourself, by ear. It's far more rewarding to lift a song yourself rather then seeing a tab ont he web that happens to have been mashed together by a kid who doesn't know the difference between a G and C chord.
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Yes! This is the best (and probably most obvious) advice you can ever get as a musician, use your ear! I'm not a very technical player or improvisor but through the years I've been able to keep up with far better players than me just through developing my ear. Learn, by practicing scales, the note names and every position at which they exist on the neck. Listen to how a chord feels rather than by memorizing the notes, some guys I've played with can't even tell by ear the difference between basic major and minor chords. Try to learn songs by ear and try to tune your guitar by ear using a piano or pitch pipes.
Some basic ear training in the beginning helps out immensely in the long run.