I've been trying to join a band for a while, but that's gone nowhere, so I'm gonna make my own music. It'll be great!
Also been meaning to learn 3d modeling and animation, but new things scare me...
I'd recommend to use Blender. It's free and has great tutorials to help you learn basics about 3D modelling & animation.
You can check CGcookie's & Blender guru's vids about basics of blender to get started.
Also, if modelling anime characters is what you want to master, you may want to check Daniel Kreuter's channel too, he has allot of tutorials on making 3D anime models.