We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Bill Zimmerman. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Bill below.

Bill, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. How did you learn to do what you do? Knowing what you know now, what could you have done to speed up your learning process? What skills do you think were most essential? What obstacles stood in the way of learning more?

I was able to work under a lot of successful people early on so I just kind of tried to absorb everything I possibly could. My first intern gig in ATL was working at Usher’s fam’s studio for him, his brother JLack, and the various producers, writers, and engineers that rotated throughout the weeks. Seeing this process early on was huge for me. I try to learn from people as much as I can. Phil Tan (epic mix engineer) has been a main mentor for me over the years. and lots of others that would take too long to name.

I have no clue if I could have sped up my learning. I actually think it’s important to just be consistent and not be in a rush. Being in a hurry will kind of rob you of the process. To get good at anything, it just takes tons of repetition and experience. I’m still trying to get good :)

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’m a music engineer, producer, and remixer. I have loved music and been trying to find where I fit in to it pretty much my whole life. Once I started interning at a studio, I got my eyes open to all these pieces of the puzzle. Since then, I have a had a big journey kind of all over the place. It’s constantly changing directions and evolving. I think anyone in music understands that their career moves need to stay adaptable to what’s around you.

As an engineer, I started working under Phil Tan and had the privilege of working on Grammy Winning/Nominated albums (Ariana Grande/H.E.R.) an Emmy Winner (Euphoria/Zendaya/Labrinth) and a lot of gold and platinum records (Coldplay, Fifth Harmony, Future, Liam Payne, Usher etc) Super grateful to have linked with him.

Later on, I began producing in a group called Reptile Room. We’ve had a feature in Forbes, had songs supported by Tiesto and Kaskade, and placed music with Redbull, SyFy, BET, TLC, MTV, E, Om Records and Spinnin’ Records. This was a real important project for me because it was my first time experimenting with my artistic/creative side.

Most recently I am starting to get into producing for other artists and DJ’ing/remixing songs. There’s an awesome pop band on the rise called We Three and I had the honor of co-producing their latest album as well as working on the next. I also have a couple of remixes on UK’s Music Week Charts with them which is exciting :) More to come on this end and hopefully you will see me out DJing somewhere next year!

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

At this point, a big part of my goal is to help others navigate their music industry path however I can. In the other question I listed a lot of big wins I’m proud of, but there are many many more losses I’ve had along the way (and still have). Any artist or creative probably knows that behind the scenes but it’s not spoken about publicly much so it can be really tough for beginners. Once I get farther along in my own career, I will probably start a program or try to mentor people getting started. I want to remind them that it’s ok for things to not work out every time. You just need to love the process and keep showing up.

Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?

I have started liking books a lot lately, but one that sticks out is the Compound Effect. It basically explains how anything you want to achieve takes repetitive daily action as opposed to random broad strokes. Anything you want can usually be broken down into 10-30 minutes of practice every day as a starting point. The progress built from that is a lot stronger than doing 1 big day of work per month or something. Whatever you do every day is who you are. That’s a pretty simple but true statement that I like.

Contact Info:

• Website: http://solo.to/billz
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billzremix/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCypm_DB_Kv9oEKXvY4AzZPA/videos