ICE's Creative Process: Learning to play a new song

I brainstorm my feelings to pick the song I would like to play at that time. Then, I search the internet looking for websites which offer free songs first, but if it does not exist in these websites I will go to buy sheet music from bookstores and paid websites.

After I pick the song I like, I will organize the place to play. Sometimes I am very excited to play that song, so  I won't set anything ready; where to sit and which guitar to use. Next, I will looking through the song to find how many pages it has, the musical symbols and signs, the metronome rate, does it have chords or tabs together with notes? etc.

Then I draft it by playing from the beginning to the end of the song without worrying about the pace and smoothness. I try to play every notes as possible. Sometimes I skip some parts of the song because I guess it would be really difficult and will discourage me to end the song for first attempt.

To review after I get used to the song, its sound and message, I will look at the difficult parts which took me long time to learn and begin to play it again.

To revise, I will practice those difficult parts for several times to smooth them and modify a song a bit to serve my desire. I cut some notes or even the whole parts which I don't like and link the exist notes together as I want. It is actually a bad style of learning to follow (I do even cut the classical song). And the most important step is to practice it again and again.

Finally, enjoy the song!