This is a great write-up @@Gryphonboy! One thing I'll add is that even if you have no inclination to stream, most of what Gryphonboy writes up is relevant just to record yourself. I have setup OBS to record my sessions so I can watch the video later and troubleshoot technique problems. Plus, if you do particularly well on a song, it gives you something to go back to for inspiration. I'll say that my built-in webcam isn't up to the task from a framerate perspective so you do want to either get something better as detailed in the write up or use some other external camera (GoPro, DSLR, etc). Recommend using OBS Multi-Platform, as that is the version that will be supported more going forward. Pretty easy to setup. One last tip. If you are outputing MP4 from OBS during recording sessions, the built in Movie Player or WMP in Windows 10 will not play the sound by default. There may be ways to configure it so that it reads an OBS MP4, but I went the lazy way and just grabbed VLC.