i guess ultimate guitar is the so called "popular" place to get tabs from uh. haha. but it kinds of get irritating if you are trying to find a tab by a relatively unknown band as not many people will tab it out and i'm those who totally cannot tab it out on my own without any reference to other tabs. :???:
Playing by ear is a great asset... If the tabs are wrong (a lot of tabs on Ultimate Guitar have incorrect tabbing, best is to find the tab that has the highest votes) you can use your ears to make adjustments.
i can roughly figure out the chords but it's the intro, riffs and solos that are hard to figure out. haha. for me, youtube is not as useful as sometimes, it's really hard to see which strings or fret the person is playing