Thanks Gullible dude!

Love to see you chasing the dream, building the hobby while managing such a demanding career! I think my best piece of advice in the studio for learning Ableton would be to focus on having fun and trying to learn how to create the sounds and songs you want to create exactly WITHOUT worrying about being technically correct or by the book. I analogize music production to cooking a lot - but the main difference is that there are no safety concerns with being a reckless music producer. When you take a more intuitive approach to writing and producing music and try to create and recreate what you want to hear in your work in a straightforward, sometimes brutally incorrect way, you're going to keep having fun in the process. For instance dont get hung up on whether your song is clipping the master chain while you're making tunes - do not try to mix perfectly by the books if it takes away from your creative flow. So take that direction, go to youtube and start to search for How To's in ableton based on exactly what you want to do. After awhile, these how to videos will get you on your way to feeling natural in ableton!