lol..I understand man, it is no problem. If you ask me a question, I am just going to give you an honest answer. Despite what so many other musicians around here display, there really is no "right or wrong", in making music. Your own ideas and their results are the real goal.
Did you mess with that chord site at all? Try to drop a chord structure in your DAW as a bassline and repeat it, see what come out, and what happens when you shift the location. Add delay, see the difference. Start to remove or replace notes but always maintain the notes in the chord you started with. Once you understand which notes go well together, you can start experimenting with combining different chord progressions
Once you have a bassline going, add a pad. Use the same chord and see how it all fits together automatically. Make some kind of pad progression but do not follow the bassline. You will start to see how the sound compliment each other-or even start to sound atonal-which is usually a goal in most Industrial music..heh
A lot of rivitheads knock synth pop, but that kind of music really gave me a grip on melody and placement of sounds. Plus they do not bury their sounds in effects. Everything is very deliberate and obvious.
`michael
