Most would say something along the lines of "open up a module you like in your favorite tracker and just tool around with it." I secretly suspect they're all lazy clods, but that's another story.
I prefer MilkyTracker, but I assume any FT2 clone will do in its place. You can start by opening up the sample editor and drawing a few waveforms that you feel you might use. Sine, square, saw, so on. Either that or you import a wav you've prepared beforehand. Anyways, once you have some samples you can work with, you simply fill in the pattern with whatever comes to mind.
As always, it probably helps to be well versed in musical theory or something like that before trying tracking.

Open up a module you like in your favorite tracker and just tool around with it.

Good tips here:
>>4065

There used to be some good tutorial vids on the milkytracker site.

Anyone still got them?

>>8136

I can actually sequenc compentently with a normal/mainstream DAW interfaces (using piano rolls or notation). The main problem being is of course reorientating myself to this rather different approach - mainly, figuring what the fuck all those numbers and letters are supposed mean. I looked through some of the demo projects in MilkyTracker and Renoise, but I'm still quite at a loss of how to even enter stuff.

>>8138

Thanks, I'll look through these.

>>8147
One of the big hurdles for me with trackers is learning that almost everything is keyboard-based. It makes for a steep learning curve, but in the long run it's a faster workflow. To enter notes you generally turn on "record" and press letters on your keyboard, for example.

>>8148

Keyboard based - as in MIDI Keyboard, Or computer Keyboard?

>>8161
He said letters. So a computer keyboard.