I'm hoping that way I learn from practical experience and find out things along the way. Do you think that's a good approach to learning music production? How did you get started and what approach would you recommend?
Just do what's necessary. record something using just 2 instruments, see how it goes. see how it sounds. the first thing you will learn is simply how to set the volumes of each instrument in comparison to each other. sounds dumb but it's very important and you must start there. do things in the order that you hear a need