"Addison.Wesley.Java.Software.Solutions" (Green apple on the cover of 7th edition.)
^^^^^^^^^ This is the way to go. During my student years no amount of videos or lectures could match this book.
The best book for jave. Download its PDF start reading. Dont skip chapters. It makes a world of diffrence if you know whats going on behind everything. As opose to going in blind try to memorise stuff. Assigning meaningless values to meaningless variables. Dont skip chapters.
Open up eclipse and start working if the labs are advance start on early book exercises. google whenever you are stuck. Ask us.
There is no rush, find a quiet place to drown in hours of tinkering with the code. change everything. if you have doubts change it see what happens. Code acts strange? Learn to debug put breakpoints check values.
Personally music is distracting.
just perfect silence and thought.
Just my thoughts and how i learned hope it helps.