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Led Zeppelin IV was spinning on the record player. My sister and I, ages 2 and 4, were riding around the basement on our tricycle and bicycle, respectively. This is my earliest memory of music. Black Sabbath’s Paranoid and Deep Purple’s Machine Head were also on heavy rotation. We spent a lot of time playing as kids with great…

There I was with my classmates, recorder in hand. “Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do.. Again!” instructed our middle school music teacher. At the time, as a know-it-all little kid, I thought this was all pretty lame. “Okay, I got it. Can we move on now?” Of course, the public school system must…

I’ve been studying and producing music for a long time. Recently, as I was commuting to the post-production studio where I work, I put on some of my old music (circa 2012 stuff). As I drove the familiar highway and city streets on auto-pilot, my mind wandered (as it often does). I contemplated how music…

There was a lot of information to cover in engineering school. The lectures were dense and fast-paced. Courses named Thermo-Fluid (fluid mechanics + thermal dynamics), Statics, and Differential Equations filled my schedule. Admittedly, I was a terrible student who rarely attended class (I was a stubborn teenager who “knew how to read the textbook and take…

Quantity versus quality: a comparison as old as time. It’s my belief, through experience, that quality comes as a result of quantity. On the first day of class, the photography teacher divided his class into two groups: By the end of the year, the teacher noticed something strange. All the highest quality works were produced…

It was one year ago today. My wife and I were at the Miami International Airport, returning home from our honeymoon in Patagonia. Two and a half weeks of total presence, immense beauty, and broken Spanish (solo hablo inglés y francés) in celebration of our marriage. This trip, along with the wedding itself (and the…

“Learn it. Do it. Teach it.” That’s become a mantra of mine over the last few weeks, and it’s how I’m learning faster than ever in my adult life. Music production, video editing, graphic design, motion graphics and building a “personal brand” are all on my plate. And I’m excited about learning them all. In last week’s letter, we discussed project-based learning (the “do it”). In this week’s letter, we’ll discuss the Protégé…

“Well, that’s enough for today,” I said as I shut my laptop and got ready for bed. Another “successful” evening spent learning online, I thought to myself. I was fascinated (and still am) by how deeply I could study almost any topic for free on the internet. Whatever I was interested in, I could find information…

The man that knows something knows that he knows nothing at all” – Erykah Badu I remember being a kid, about 7 or 8 years old, without a worry in the world. It was the weekend, which meant it was time to walk to my neighbours’ house and have fun with their family computer in a new-to-me…

I hope you’re doing well from wherever you are in the world. A big issue I’ve found for myself and people I’ve talked to is the development of a unique “sound”. One that separates our music and art from the rest. I’ve been thinking a lot about creativity and developing my own unique sound, and…

Originally sent on August 30, 2024. Check out my other previously published newsletters here! Not A Subscriber? Sign up to receive my newsletter directly to your inbox (in advance of when they’re posted here)! This is the third weekly newsletter from Fox Music Production. I hope you’ve enjoyed the previous two (you can find them here…

Originally sent on August 23, 2024. Check out my other previously published newsletters here! Not A Subscriber? Sign up to receive my newsletter directly to your inbox (in advance of when they’re posted here)! I’ve been there many times. Overwhelmed with information and frozen in inaction. Analysis paralysis. Whatever you want to call it, it’s…