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, until I can just play along with it. Rarely perfectly. But if I could do it perfectly, I'd be a rich and/or famous rock star! 
*raises hand*
I run the part on repeat, stopping/replaying parts I have trouble with, until I can play it from memory. Then just repeat....repeatedly?
You NEED one.
You need to see her play it live. She's like a metronome. Simple line that you have to be very precise with for six minutes. It's much harder than it looks. A lot of her lines require perfect timing or you get lost.
Hate to say it but it looks awful. You're likely disappointed and I understand. And it probably doesn't even sound good through Ampegs. The good news is someone here may be willing to help and take it off your hands so you don't face that aggravation when you have to play it.
Yes, and for all the reasons you mentioned.
This is one of the things I don't like about playing a church. Every week it's new songs, with some rotation every so many weeks. I love a gigging band setting better. Learn songs so well you don't have to think about it or look at chord sheets to remember what to play. You just play and can enjoy playing, more.
We try not to bring more than one new song a week at the most, and it's usually less. So it's not too bad most weeks. I try to practice at least some each week with the new set list, both to keep up with new material and to be ready if they need a sub. During most of covid, we watched the livestream, and I'd play along on bass during worship. It's not the same, but it's more of a jam than playing with a record, since I know how the others think and play.
We don't do a new song every week. But it's a rotation where it may have been months since you played it. Even then, you go over any given song a couple times, do it during church and it's likely weeks if not months before you do it again. At first I tried to memorize the songs each week so I wouldn't have to look at chord charts which I had never done before but after a while it up on that. Too much work for one week and then I have to start all over for another week. Maybe when I was younger it would've been much easier too much dust up there and too much crap to remember now.
- especially if I make corrections after 
....it can get pretty messy sometimes.
- I use purple for 5-string, red for 4-string)We run into the problem that sheet music is one way and at times the chords are actually in the wrong place on chord sheets. A little bit into a new song and you know something's wrong and it dawns on you the chords are located a little too soon (which is what tends to happen). From chord sheets you have no sense of timing or feel until you play and it's clearly off.That's pretty normal for tabs, ime.
I just try to find what's closest, then mark it up with corrections, then write it out in my tab notebook.
Which is sometimes illegible to others; occasionally to me
But, usually by then I've got it memorized-ish, so it no longer matters how legible it is
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