The only caveat I’m going to add to my earlier comment is something I heard Erich Andreas (Your Guitar Sage) say over on his channel when I was struggling with guitar a few years ago.
He said that 'There’s no magic pill to improving. You want to get better? then play at least 5 minutes a day. How good will you get with 5 mins a day? Not very, you’ll suck! So If you want to get better you have to practice a lot and sometimes that means eating your vegetables (scales, theory, playing with a metronome/drum track etc).
If you’re happy noodling, that’s great. But just be realistic about where you’ll be in a years time if all you ever do is noodle.
My polite suggestion is to learn one song the whole way through (no matter how simple). I was told this countless times when failing at guitar and didn’t listen. When I picked up bass I learned a complete song and then another. It’s been hands down the best thing to improve my playing.
YMMV
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