I wouldn’t look at it like that, more of a bigger picture thing - there’s still a lot of great stuff to learn in the course, and your end goal is finishing the course. It’s fine to leave some things undone with a mental note to come back to them and revisit.
Or even just leave them if you end up happy without them. I skipped the whole slap module because I don’t slap and am not really wanting to. It’s been seven years and I haven’t looked back at it.
At least they were for me. I had to just look at those 2 snippets and play super slowly over and over until I picked up some muscle memory and then slowly bring up to speed.
As a bonus, if you play a 5 string, I like hitting that ending B after the guitar riff with the B of the E string as well as the open B together to get that octave chord. Nice and powerful.
I’ve just finished Lessons 4 and 5 of Module 11, and I’m a lot happier now. That song by Cake in Lesson 5 got a bit tricky in the fast workout, but I pretty much nailed the slow and medium.
What I am finding more and more is that the theory side of things is getting a bit too quick for my brain to process, but I’m not overly worried as I’ll pick that up on the next pass.
I’m sure it’ll start to sink in soon. It’s been a revelation for me. I’m hearing players play roots and fifths, I’m noticing triads in the wild, diatonic chords make sense but I don’t have the sequences memorized yet. The other day I saw someone play a G major chord and I was able to figure out the fingering based on root, third, fifth, and octave. As others have said, just keep working at it and things will fall into place.
As @howard said, it’s one of the toughest songs on the course (it’s the hardest I’ve done so far). Playing each bar separately is ok, but stitching it together is hell on wheels.
Also, I would at least watch the lesson first to get any tips on playing it that Josh may have and maybe give the slow workout a once-through before practicing separately. Then you’d at least have a strategy and an idea of the groove or feel of the song.