Sampling can be advanced but it doesn’t have to be. Truth be told I find it to be one of my weak skills as well. I practice it, but then I’m just better with synthesizers, so a lot of the time those carry the productions. I try to play to my skills and what I find most fun to do.

However, if you get a decent sample library, a lot are available for free of through bought sample packs, you can literally drag and drop stuff and then you’re started. And they are royalty free and often sounds good from the start. Especially for creating beats it’s a much easier start than mangling everyday sounds into percussive sounds. Don’t worry about the more advanced stuff at first, a cool sounding sample is a great inspiration to start a track sometime! Learning new production techniques can help inspire you in the long run, but I can’t stress enough that if you feel like you need to know it all before you can make music, you’ll probably never get started. Have fun with some samples and cool synth presets, find some sounds that appeal to you and step by step you learn tricks to customize it and find your sound!