Tons of lessons, in no particular order – Course For Ableton Live 101 Review

There are a ton of lessons, but I'll me damned if I understand the order it's in, or why he chose it. I have had Live for a couple months, and I know it well enough to have used it onstage for the last couple shows, as well as to have written a couple songs on it. Still, I feel I have only the very beginning of understanding of this program, so I bought these lessons. ...but the order in which he talks about stuff is baffling. Lesson one is this guy babbles about what he regrets about his music career, followed by why he thinks this software is good. That's a lesson? Why the hell do I care about him getting stuck in the studio and missing performing? I don't. Still, maybe this is just his version of an intro. Lesson two, this guy starts babbling about how to jump around in a DJ set using hot keys. Honestly, that's the FIRST thing we are taught? hot key shortcuts in a DJ set? Shouldn't "loading a file" or "building a set" come before little tricky ways to navigate an already built song? How about a global understanding of the interface? After lesson three, I still haven't been given a overview...so I think I'm gunna give up. The manual works better then this. And did I mention he does annoying/insulting impressions? He uses a 'dumb hick' voice to represent you, the viewer. Nice, aren't you glad you just gave him ten bucks? I'm not. Should YOU buy it? If you don't mind listening to 6 1/2 hours of random information, while ignoring insults, and then try to collate it in your brain later... then sure, snag it. Honestly, there's probably a ton of good data in here, but I don't have the patience for this haphazard mess.
Review by Captain Robert on Course For Ableton Live 101.