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# Stone Update #006 Delays and Decisions
- URL: https://adamringler.com/stone/stone-update-006-delays-and-decisions/
- Published: 2025-12-21T01:47:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T01:30:59.000Z
- Description: “Stone Updates” is my ongoing, unfiltered journal as I learn electronic music from absolute scratch. Expect messy experiments, rookie mistakes, tiny wins, and lots of self-deprecating humor as I figure out Ableton one chaotic button press at a time.
- Author: Adam Ringler
- Tags: #Stone, #noindex

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f6/16/f6164f1b-bb1b-4d5c-af28-2fe8b5a96265/content/images/2025/12/5214F2AC-E673-4FDF-8E99-096017258E58.jpeg) 

## My Side Quest in Music, Creativity, and Permission to Be a Rookie Again

[Learn More About Adam Stone](https://www.adamringler.com/AdamStone?ref=adamringler.com) 

## **Update:**

Two hours delayed at Denver International Airport on the way to Tempe with the team gives you a choice. You can be a consumer or you can be a **creator**. Netflix. Scrolling. Noise.

**Or making something.**

Someone asked me recently why I am doing this. The honest answer is simple. I like creating things. There is real enjoyment in building something from nothing. For some people that joy comes from consuming. For me right now, **it comes from making.**

So I opened Ableton and kept working on a track I have been refining. If I had to label it, maybe melodic Tech House. I tried applying a few newer lessons instead of defaulting to old habits. Is it better? I am not sure yet.

But it is progress. And at this stage of game, I’m only looking for marginal progress.

![Laptop with music production software open at a Southwest Airlines airport gate](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f6/16/f6164f1b-bb1b-4d5c-af28-2fe8b5a96265/content/images/2025/12/IMG_7879.jpeg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f6/16/f6164f1b-bb1b-4d5c-af28-2fe8b5a96265/content/images/2025/12/brotherlandsignature-bold-1.png) 

## That is really all I know how to do. Keep creating. Keep learning. Keep going.

## **🪨 Stone Meter 🪨**

- **Confidence:** 3/10
- **Confusion:** 9/10
- **Amount of Coffee Consumed:** ☕️/5
- **Track’s Progress:** 70%

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## **🎧 Spotify Discography**

Remember, this page is less about perfection and more about **permission** — to explore, to create, to begin again. **Welcome to the side quest.**