Don’t follow the tutorial from start to finish. Pay attention (real attention) until you learn enough things to be able to goof around on your own. Then switch over to goofing around.

Stuck? Bored? Is what you learned so far not getting you where you want to go?

Resume the tutorial for a bit. Learn a couple new things. Then goof off with those new things.

Go back and forth.

This is basically how education works. Theory then application, then refinement.

Don’t try to become an expert by sitting through the entire tutorial. That’s boring.