Help Learning Ableton for an Acoustic Musician

[skylinez]

I am a completely self taught acoustic guitarist. Because of this, I have picked up a few bad habits, and I don't know how to read music. I can play by ear but wish I had learned correct technique as I felt I would have been way better. I have been playing with Live Intro and love it so far. I want to learn everything the right way, should I buy one of those books? Keep watching online tutorials? Read the manual?

If you had to start over, what is the best way you would learn? Focus one week on drums, next week on bass, etc?

I want to be completely technically sound on Ableton, as me and her are going to have a lot of dates in the future

Thanks for your advice! All is appreciated

What I am looking for is one source of accurate information, that can help me in a step by step process to learn ableton inside and out.

[andydes]

Just learn enough for what you're doing at any one point.

Put some drums down, then record some guitar, add some other instruments. Learn as you go and see how it turns out. Go back and change stuff.

No point wasting time learning everything just for the sake of it.

Live is pretty easy to get started on. The hard parts are writing good music, getting a good recording, and knowing how to mix properly (and sound design if you want to get into that as well). But that's all generic not specific to live anyway.

Make sure you do the tutorials on setting up soundcard, latency compensation and recording audio. You want to make sure your guitar is recorded in time.