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In the previous article i had written that you need to choose a DAW to work with.This was the most important of all the steps to music production.I hope you considered my advice to try some demos of different software.Otherwise,you may be disappointed by the result because you chose a daw that you would feel hard to work with...
Now,I suppose you already tried out clicking on the different features of the program,even though i doubt you know what they were.I shall tell you now what you need to know in order to operate this program-I will explain the different "parts" of the daw.These are principles that apply to all software for producing.
First of all,you have a Playlist.This is the place(the window,the column or whatever it is) where you arrange the different elements of the song(continue reading,i'll tell you what are these elements down in the post).
Then comes the Step Sequencer(this term maybe different in the different DAW's,i'm using step sequencer because this is the FL studio term).This is where you create each element of the song seperately from each other in order to arrange them later in the Playlist.
The next part of the daw is the Piano Roll(i'm pretty sure this term is different in all daw's but as you know-i am using the terms and names of FL studio).This is where you ,hmm,let's say,compose.By compose i mean that there are the different notes from C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C where you put the separate sounds in order to create a melody or something.In FL Studio the Piano roll is shown as a piano looked from top with it's keys.
=>These three (the playlist,step sequencer and piano roll) are the three MAIN parts of the daw.You put sounds into the piano roll=>taken as a whole they form a pattern of the step sequencer=> by arranging all the patterns in the Playlist you make a song.

Earlier i said i'd explain which are the elements of the song.This varies in a way ,you'll see why.Generally,a song has a beat,bassline,a melody and(optionally) vocal.There are other elements as well but these are the main.I said it varies because there are songs which have no beat(some chill or donwtempo songs may be made of pads only),there are also songs with no melody-almost all speedcore,splittercore etc. are made of kicks and basslines.

I shall stop here and continue in the next article where i will tell you about the instruments,plug-ins and stuff... ->