Ditto to what Wyndham said. To start, K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid). Not that you're stupid, but think of it like beginning to learn music. We all started with simple stuff, remember? Get a lead sheet from someone or a fake book for a one page tune with no 1st-2nd endings or codas. This is what i did. I entered the chords from the lead sheet first and then added a midi melody (you don't have to do this at first or ever actually). After I get the chords in, I go to the styles and spend a very long time finally finding one that I like for the particular song--I'm picky. Then you hit play and see if you like what you hear. Don't like some of the chords? Change 'em. Don't like the style? Change it. Don't want the 2-bar ending? Right click, select song settings, and uncheck the box in the popup window. I could go on, but you aren't going to learn BIAB via questions on this forum. You just have to jump in and start experimenting. As to the videos, I have anti-virus and spy sweeper and a firewall. They prompt me before running the videos. I shut off my firewall and antivirus software to load the programs. There are lots of videos and a lot of them are not on the video disks that come with the disk paks. I downloaded some. Most will run but some will not because I don't have some required codec. That's okay though since you can run them from the pg music website. Good luck!

Cornet Curmudgeon