[synthsonix]

Mate,
First of all, please stop apologising for being new to this! you dont have to...

Nothing beats opening a fat evolving pad patch you like and understanding how and why it sounds the way it does. What that means is, going through every part of it, oscillators, then filters, then envelopes etc...and figuring firstly, what makes a pad sound like a pad ( typically the slow volume envelope attack and long release), then why the fat pads sound fat ( the filters and oscilators)...and after that you understand how to make it evolve in an interesting way ( usually through the filter envelopes and LFOs...

Open them up, digest them till you OWN them. Practice this a lot and you will get better and eventually good at it.