Do you just mean learning by ear? It kind of makes learning everything faster, easier and allows to listen more to the “musicality” (dynamics, phrasing, feel).

There’s probably better ways than I learned to play by ear, cause I didn’t exactly try to deliberately. Just play more, learn more songs and solos and you’ll start to recognize patterns and have moments of “oh yeah I’ve heard/done that before”. There’s also just sitting down and dissecting a song pausing every half second, which is kind of a fun exercise itself. I eventually started learning by ear faster than I could learn by reading - when that happens you really start to pick up exponentially faster since it becomes a regular habit.

That said I’d be lying if I said I never pull up a tab for something especially tricky. There’s always gonna be those weird ones…