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In 2005, after I graduated high school I moved from metro Detroit all the way down to Nashville to study audio engineering at the SAE Institute. At the time, that was by far my closest and best option for a high-quality education. While the education I received was great, to this day I really do not feel like it was worth $40k (plus interest – student loans will get you). It wasn't very specialized, all of the other students that enrolled for courses around the same time that I did were lumped into 2 classes (about 20-25 people per class). One morning class, one evening class. While we weren't "in class", we had assignments to work on at the campus or at home. There was a curriculum and we all had to pass it in order to graduate. We came from very different walks of life, but we all shared one thing in common. All of us had independently decided to pay for a higher education to learn audio engineering / music production. But we all had VERY different aspirations. Some of us aspired to build and operate our own music studios. Some of us hoped to get internships to work through the ranks at one of the several high profile studios right there on Music Row. Some guys were more focused on learning production because they were in a rock/guitar-based band and they felt like the knowledge would help them get to that next level. Others had never picked up a guitar in their life but wanted to become more well rounded hip hop producers. My point is this – I would estimate that AT LEAST 50% of the time I spent in class or working on projects either on campus or at home was time that I basically wasted. I had a clear vision of what it is that I wanted to learn and what I wanted to accomplish. But I had to adhere to the exact same curriculum that all of my other classmates had to adhere to. The teachers were great, I made a lot of friends (some that I still communicate with to this day), but it was definitely not worth $40k +. If you are motivated and you have a clear idea of what it is you want to accomplish and what you need to learn to get there, you would be MUCH better served using Groove3. Honestly, if I could go back to 2005 I would have saved my money, stayed at home and done it this way. The teachers in these videos are just as knowledgeable and helpful as the teachers I had at SAE. I sit and take notes and pause the video frequently to make sure I understand every line of information. You can even learn the fundamentals here, too. There's an entire litany of videos about signal processing. Instead of using that $40k + to pay for a formal education, I would have been a million times better served using that money to start building my dream. But in high school it was drilled into all of our heads that unless we went to college, we would be working at McDonalds until we were 80. The world has changed. That's just no longer the way things work. The people who are successful are the people who are willing to go all in. You can't win or lose if you're not even in the game. Groove3 gives you all the tools you need to get things started. Take my word for it, hopefully somebody can learn from my example. Save your money and get a Groove3 subscription. If you don't have the internal fire and the motivation, going to an obscenely expensive audio production school isn't going to provide that. If you do have that drive and motivation, Groove3 is by far the best option for you. Can't believe I'm only now learning about it in 2020.