First attempt at making music... feedback is appreciated

[iceman81588]

I just started working with Ableton less than a month ago, and have no prior experience with any DAWs other than that, other than using a really old version of fruity loops once like 5 years ago for about ten minutes. I did play guitar for a couple years a while back but fell out of that as I didn't feel I had enough creative control over what I wanted to do, thus why working with electronic music appeals to me so much. I have been working on this song for about a week or so now after familiarizing myself with Ableton a bit and I feel pretty good with what I've done so far considering how new I am to all of this.
I don't think I'm done with this song but it is a work in progress and I wanna know if I'm on the right track. I love dubstep/brostep/electronic whatever you wanna call any given song, though labels do not effect the soul of the music, and it's my dream to be making music for a living so expect to see me around these forums for quite some time. Any and all feedback is appreciated, whether good or bad, and I'm extremely open to advice if any of you feel I need it. Thank you for your time and I hope you enjoy this, the first of many future works by Brahmanic.

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[daeMTHAFKNkim]

Yeah you're on the right track. My stuff sounded like this at first.

Keep at it dude.

Music Production is a never-ending cycle... you'll only get better with time and it won't stop as long as you keep going.

[HoogerJ]

My first song sounded much worse!

But seriously, for a first timer it's oke. I am producing for two years now in my sparse spare time, with little to none prior musical experience. I've learned that you have to study and keep studying to make your productions better and better. It's a bit of a box of Pandora you've opened, cause there is a shitload of things that can go wrong. That's why it's so important to focus on techniques, understanding synthesis, eq'ing, bass splitting, proper mixdowns (levels) etc etc.

I'm not nearly there, but I advanced a lot by watching tutorials and reading a lot of blogs. There are some great guys on Youtube that share a great deal of knowledge for free. (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/user/ARTFXSTUDIOS) Feed on it. The most I've learned from tutorials that build a song from the ground up, so that it also includes info about song structure, doing a mixdown, doing a bit of mastering etc.

The fun I have making music drastically improved when I mastered and understood the engineering and the techniques better. You can get your creativity flowing in a minute, but if it is not sounding up to par then it is not really satisfying for yourself or anyone else to listen to.

And one last tip: don't drown yourself in vst's and plugins. Stick to one DAW and maybe a couple of vst's and get to know them inside out. In my first year I was too busy with downloading stuff that 9 out of 10 times I didn't use at all.