Q&A: Learning, exercises vs songs?

"One thing ive been thinking about Is if you have any good like, Exercises to do to get better in playing or if the best way is just to play songs?"

I kind of see them as one and the same. My guitar playing improved primarily through learning songs. Note that learning songs and playing songs are very, very different ideas. If you sit down and solely focus on exercises, you'll give up guitar within half a year. I'm willing to bet a sandwich on that. I would bet more, but I just started college, and college students are supposed to be desperate for money, right?  You're learning guitar so that you can play music, right?
     But here's the thing. As you learn a song, you'll be doing exercises too. If anything, songs are good vehicles for learning techniques! They also help you understand how to use the techniques musically. You should always pick a song that's just a little too challenging for you. When you run into a difficult spot, break it up into short loops and practice each loop slowly with a metronome. That's how you practice technique. Then try to work on some variations of the bit that you are practicing. For example, when I was learning Yankee Doodle Dixie by Chet Atkins, I could not play the run in the melody that used alternate picking (alternating between I and M). I practiced it slowly until I could play it smoothly, and then gradually sped it up. Then I practiced going up and down the neck with the alternate picking. At no point did this exercise become boring, because I was practicing part of the song that I wanted to learn. A song will inform you which exercise to practice, and you will be the one creating the exercise. That's the most effective and efficient way to learn, in my opinion.
     However, it definitely is worthwhile to spend some time on exercises to develop dexterity.  If you know that you have a problem with thumb independence, for example, sit down and practice playing up and down the fretboard with only your thumb, while keeping the rest of your fingers still.  Move on to playing some fun bass lines.  Scales are also very important!  Not so much for the technique as for the knowledge.  I'm spending most of my practice time right now learning a bunch of scales.
     The most important thing is repetition. Lock yourself in a room when you practice, because you need to play each measure over and over again to get it down. You, as a musician, need repetition; no one else does. Other people find it annoying :(
Here's Tommy Emmanuel on practicing:

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