I too have struggled with tabs. Some things I can figure out by ear, but my ability to do that seems fickle. Sometimes I'll be noodling around and a sequence of notes sound familiar and before I know it, I've figured out a lick or riff out of thin air. Other times, with the song playing, I can't figure out the notes for the life of me.

At first I thought the vidoes here were my lifeline. However, I find that sometimes I need to refer down to the tab, the tab I normally struggle with, to sort things out.

The magic of why guitar tricks works for me to learn something easily is the combination of the video and the accurate tab.

Now that I think about it, I've learned to break things down into really small chunks and work through it. Seeing first hand how that works, I'm curious to see how I do learning from a tab book again.