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I have had Ableton Live Intro for about 6 months now. Problem is, whenever I play I just bounce all over the place. I have 6 years of Acoustic Guitar and 10 years of DJing under my belt. I'm going to teach myself Ableton the way I taught myself Guitar - by reproducing/remixng songs that I like - It will be easy because these will be songs I know on the guitar already.

So far, I am giving myself 1 week with each song, starting today. I know there is a lot to learn, but for the basics each track has to include:

Acapella (Audio)
Bass (Midi)
Drum (Midi)
Synth (Midi)
Guitar (Audio)

I really want to learn Live inside and out and I think this is a good start. Are there any other elements I should focus on putting into these beginner tracks that I will be making? Or are these good enough to get started with. I'm really just looking for direction from a more experienced ableton user.

Merry Christmas to Everyone who Reads this, and I look forward to receiving your opinion!

Merry Christmas bud,

It's a bit difficult to say whether you need to work on anything else knowing that

a - we have no heard the type of music you are producing(maybe a small clip of your best song will help people judge whether you need anything else and

b - only you can really judge whether your tracks need anything else. You could take the attitide that of "fuck what anyone else thinks" or the more commercial route of "to make this appeal to more people I could add this that and everything".

I know it's difficult, but you just gotta kinda feel what works for you and get your own groove going. I have been trying to do this for sooooooo long and am only just beginning to get to the stage that people are starting to recognise my tracks as my 'my tracks'.

Fuck the standards, make your own standards and work from there.