Magic Music Visuals

For my first project what i would like are individual bars that lay at rest at the bottom of the screen that jump up as it detects sound. Kind of like on this image http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qYLKepbjL.jpg On the main display to the right you can see the kind of bars im talking about. ...

Ya i would rather not spend the next 4 days stumbling around a user manual filled with a lot of information that dosent help me with my current project and hope i eventually figure out how to do what i want to do.

Greetings everyone! I recently picked up this fine piece of software and i was hoping to get some help. The user guide is a bit....daunting. Especially to someone just starting out. And trying to find the information im actually looking for the pertains to what i want to do is not all that easy. For...