Looking at the wiki for your character and getting a sense of how what each move is useful for is also pretty helpful.
I'm usually able to learn a lot about games by playing against the CPU on the hardest difficulty but I know few people are able to. Go through the tutorial though as it'll probably help. It's a really good game!
i myself am also trying to get into BB, working on Tager and Litchi, maybe if your a scrub too we could play some matches someday