I signed up for a 2-hour Ableton class that was being offered at work. Not sure why, it just caught my attention. I was amazed by how the instructor could write a cool song in just a couple minutes! I had no idea that was possible.

That's how I started, I bought Ableton and a small MIDI keyboard. Followed tutorials on YouTube and started writing a song every week for the song-a-week subreddit. I took a few online classes on music production and kept learning.

A few things that clicked for me:

• I don't have to do EDM just because I'm using Ableton and all the YouTube tutorials are about EDM. I can make ambient.
• Notes sound better when they're not quantized.
• There are no wrong notes to play.
• Finishing songs is really important.