i found these tutorials on yt. they helped me a lot to learn the basics of ableton so here are the links.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm4pQjOH-7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh5PwbS7dSc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxMDk42xZJ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctKyphijtZU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMg34DXvfB4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgld9VopVfs
These will definitely come in handy, thanks for putting these up Shell.