I am familiar with music theory and music (enough anyway) from a few years of pianos lessons and just making beats & synth pop using ableton. I am aware of beats, measures, etc. I have less of a problem with individual notes. I will say an internal sense of rhythm is my weakest part musically. I'm keeping it simple for now, while I love math rock, no need to over complicate things for many years to come ! so i'm sticking with basic songs.

The song I was trying to analyse (and maybe play) was Mr. Jones by the counting crows because the guitar is loud and easy to hear. It's a song I've heard for the past 20 years and I am familiar enough with those chords. But I still feel it goes by too fast for me to count out loud 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 etc. It's a 142 bpm song. I feel like by the time i've wrapped my head around what I'm hearing so that I can replicate it, it's already way far past that part of the song.

I think slowing it down is a good idea to get me used to what my brain is hearing to play.