The first song I ever made — and I'm willing to wager many who graduated high school in the mid 2000s share this experience — was using Apple's GarageBand, a software application that lets people make music on their computers. "I made a killer techno track last night, dude," I overheard one classmate say, so off I went to the school's computer lab to fiddle around with the program. I created one "song" that was pathetic, and surrendered my dream of being the next Daft Punk.