Surprised no one has answered you in any way. But here's my take.

The best book for beginners is a book called home recording for beginners. It uses Reaper as its daw of choice which you say you have. It starts you off recording happy birthday in audio.

Start recording projects in basic terms. Do some 12 bar blue things. Work with the programs and learn them one step at a time.

Go through the turorials in the help files. One at a time. Don't skip anything. Go from one to the next. When you get into a jam ask on the forum for that product. 6 months to a year from now you WILL be makng decent recordings with your stuff.

Just keep at it and have fun


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