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Hey guys!

This year is gonna be my first year at uni, and the year I'm getting myself on track with what I actually wanna do in life.

#1 is DJ
The other #1 is Produce Electro House songs and remixes =)

In a few weeks I'll be getting a laptop, some headphones and a S4, along with maybe some big speakers. That'll set me right up as far as DJing goes, and I assume that's all I need for music production as well? Apart from maybe a MIDI keyboard? D:

Well, truth is, I don't know the first thing about Music production. I downloaded FL Studio 9 aaages ago and tried learning the basics of that, but I couldn't even get one foot in.

I guess my main questions are:
- How would you guys recommend I make a start as a music producer that's aiming to make his way into making full-blown Electro House remixes and originals?
- Is there anywhere in a big city (such as Christchurch, NZ, ~300k pop) that I could find people or institutions that could assist me in learning the ropes of music production/remixing?

I'm a good self-teacher, but I always like to have the basics and general outlines of stuff shown to me before I go out and figure the rest out on my own. It takes me an age (sometimes never) to figure out the 'first bits' of stuff I want to learn. With DJing, I've only been shown the ropes for 2 or 3 hours in person, and the stuff I learned in that time would have otherwise taken me months to figure out. Now I feel confident that I can handle a lot more on my own. Same applies with this I guess. So I'm so keen to learn to use FL Studio or Ableton, but I aint got a clue.

I wanna know how Zedd does it too, what does he use? What does he do?

What you guys believe? =)

Thanks

ElmoNZ.