I always wanted to be a musician of some type. Turns out that I played the drums - then quit. Started with acoustic guitar - quit. Then I went to keyboards - quit, then flute - quit. I mean... Wha?
Yet, I wanted to make music! Looks like I'm not the guy who gets along well with actual instruments, and it took some time until I realized that there were many ways of doing fully orchestrated songs with machines.
I downloaded FL Studio in 2009, and this is when I first wrote music - a crappy Oil Ocean ReMix that got immediately rejected from OCR . But I'm such a curious and stubborn monkey, I'd learn how to use FL at any cost, and once I managed to understand the basics, Shiva Nataraja came. How this mix turned out to be accepted at my current level, I dunno, but it was SO exciting *-*
Then I really felt the weight of still being a newbie. What was EQ? Compression? Dry? Wet? How to humanize? Where to get better samples? Why do the demo projects use so many weird plugins attached to the instruments, and what do they do? The results: since my indian-influenced mix, I can count like... 8 NO's! Precious crits included, along with the help from the WIP forums.
Again, I'm a stubborn dude. Still don't feel like taking music classes, and still willing to have more mixes accepted here. This is quite a college for me already!