You should just try shooting without a meter for a roll of film. Use print film of course, no slide film. Outdoors is pretty easy using "sunny f16," as long as you are not in the dawn/twilight time. There are only about six options, LV10-LV15, and you can be off by a stop without major problems. In other words, you can use just two positions, LV11 (covers LV10-LV12) and LV14 (covers LV13-LV15). Basically, it boils down to "outdoors in sunlight with shadows" or "outdoors with overcast, no shadows, or shooting in shade during a sunny day." Pretty easy right? Indoors, you're at LV5 at normal bright light at night. The tricky exposures are indoors during the day with window light, and outdoors around dawn and dusk.
You normally set exposure for the available light, so you don't have to change it for every shot, unless you go from sunlight to shade.
Some people have found that they can overexpose modern color print film by FIVE STOPS (!!!) and get a result that is perfectly acceptable (for snapshots).
If you have issues with guessing exposure, then go buy a Holga or a Brownie box camera or a disposable film camera, which has essentially only one exposure. Or set up your camera likewise, at 1/125 and f/11 at ISO400 (LV12). You will get some sort of half-decent result. Once you see what you can do with just one fixed exposure, it becomes a lot less threatening.
Digital -- and high-contrast slide film like Velvia -- is much trickier. You need near-perfect exposure. Every 1/3 stop counts. Fortunately, we can look at the rear screen histogram, so it is easy to dial it in.
