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  645. I'm a veteran Software Engineer and Manager of over 35 years (and a mediocre musician). I started studying AI way back in the 80s and early 90s. I came to the conclusion that neural networks had a lot of potential, but that we didn't have deep enough understanding, nor the computing horsepower to unlock that potential. I moved on with my career. Over the last few years, we've seen that we have acquired a deeper understanding, and sufficient computer power to begin to realize the potential of AI technologies such as neural networks. I remember the heady days in the 70s - 90s when computer science was growing at a crazy pace. These days, things are moving pretty slowly in comparison...except for AI. The promise, that goes back decades, even before the first computer, is finally upon us. Am I scared? No. Am I nervous that we don't take the necessary precautions to move ahead safely? Absolutely. I use AI everyday in my work and personal life. I find it an extremely valuable amplifier of what I can do on my own. However, AI isn't going to replace talented people any time soon. In my 35 years, technology has been an amplifier of human capability, and I think, at least for the near term, it will continue to do so. We are a long way from making shitty programmers and musicians good ones, and we are even further away from replacing them. All through my career, new technologies have been billed as tools that can make anyone an expert programmer. That's never happened. Does AI have the potential to replace jobs. I'm afraid so, for certain types of work. But technological advances have always done that. It's inevitable. In the next few years, the legislation we put in place, the controls, the conscientious advancement of AI, all are going to determine the fate the human race will face for the future. I'm hopeful, but not confident. I am very glad that people like Rick have the opportunity to weigh in on this very important subject.
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  969. Another great one. Before I make this all about me, I want to say thank you to Rick and Tim for your candidness, expertise and great spirits. I so relate to this. I’m a couple years older than both of you. I wouldn’t change the period I grew up in for anything. It was so different and wonderful in so many ways. I feel sorry for anyone trying to do music professionally these days. It’s beyond hard. I’m retired now, but I was always able to make a living. Being a drummer, I have always been middle-class at best. Had a fairly popular band in upstate New York, who got signed to a major label. Brutal story, but I paid my bills. Moved to LA. My first pro LA session was with Tim Pierce at a studio called Master Control in Burbank. I’m very proud of that. I’m sorry it never happened again. I went on tours, recorded jingles, records, wrote instructional books, produced, mixed etc. etc. which altogether enabled me to buy a house. I didn’t think that was a big deal at the time but, turns out it was. None of these things, with the exception of touring are viable ways to make money anymore. Even then, as a drummer… well, let’s just say unless you’re on the road (a lot) making decent money consistently your lifestyle won’t be great. Not sure what the answer is. The world needs the middle-class. It’s the middle-class that drives the economy in every industry and the country as a whole. OK, the old guy’s gonna sign off now. Thank you Rick and Tim. Love what you do.
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  1091. I am so sad that Pat succumbed to his lasting illness of this past year. I’m incredibly fortunate to have had lessons from two amazing teachers. Dennis Sandole and then Pat Martino in the 90’s. Although I never followed up with my lessons with Pat, he took a liking to me and we shared many a wonderful sushi dinner at Sakura on 2nd near South Street in Philadephia. He was always joined by his charming Japanese wife . My dear friend Steve Beskarone played Bass for him back then which was quite surprise to me when I found out. Steve is an extraordinary bassist who can literally play any style with genuine feeling. Pat was humble above all else and charming and funny and overall one of best humans ever….. And then there was his playing and teaching. He slowed everything down for me in the the beginning matching my finger dexterity to my playing level. He never raised his voice and had the patience of a saint it seemed to me. I spoke with him about his miraculous recovery and his take on it was his hand muscles knew what to do before his brain did and by practicing it reconnected most of his damaged neurons by a kind of feedback. Made sense to me. I’m paraphrasing of course. What an absolute lovely and loving man. The worlds a little bit dimmer now that Pat has left the building. How lucky I am to have these memories and how sad I am to hear he is gone. But he struggled to hang on for a while and part of me is relieved knowing his pain and struggles are over. I’m praying for the joyful and peaceful repose of Pat’s soul. 🙏 May those who were close to him find grace and strength during this difficult time. Davide (Martella) Simpson
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  1396. Hey Rick, during Covid-19 my small business went belly up for obvious reasons. I was compelled to start a Youtube channel and to my shock a few of my videos gained some traction and I got monetized in less than 3 months. I was overwhelmed and still am at the small surge of female subscribers to my channel. Like you ,I wanted to help anyone who was willing to listen. I pushed on and do so in a way that I wasn't prepared for the lessons that my very small audience taught me. It's hard to put into words how complete strangers, some I've never met can impact our lives in ways we never dreamed of. I am a different man because of the small group of diverse women who listened and followed my candid and honest feedback. Its clear to me that your friend Peter Smart impacted you in a way that as helped you become a better man and better person. People are put in our lives for a reason, just like my audience. You were supposed to know Peter and share your love and passion for music together. Your channel is a testament to what smart, caring, passionate and loving people do when they are compelled to share their "gifts" and you my friend have a wonderful gift of music. I also subscribed to you long before you reached a million subs and although I have never met you, I am grateful for your willingness to share your knowledge and love for music. You have opened my eyes to things about music I never thought about before listening to your channel...THANK YOU. You will meet many more people like Peter along your journey and as your channel grows. Caring and embracing people, ANYONE is also a gift I believe you poses and it comes from a kind and loving place which confirms for me just how real and selfless you are. I'm grateful. Keep smiling, RM
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  1442. Rick, I am generally a classical composer/musician. But I am so gratified to hear your simpatico for Joni is identical to mine! In your ep 91 about Amelia you can see clearly the shivers going up and down your spine at the precise moments mine do, you exhale hard with a hearty Oh! while shaking your head in disbelief of the stunning beauty we are hearing exactly in sync with mine! Yes, she has been my idol since the sixties, for her lyrics, her voice, and her compositions. I even was at the 1979 concert with Larry and Pat behind her, and as if I needed any further prodding, I fell completely in love. For all these years, my quiet time often consisted of listening to Joni in my earbuds at work or wherever, especially when I lost special people through death or break-ups. So she's more than a poet, painter, songwriter, or generational icon - she's been my counselor and therapist, too. I am quite sure you know what I mean, and feel the same way. I just retired from the film biz in Hollywood, but remember how last year my dolly grip came to me from another soundstage and bragged about how he met Joni over on stage 24. He knew I would light up with envy. He'd actually seen her the day before, and said she was just so cool, so warm. Well, I've missed my chance may times now, and being retired I see no way it could ever happen, so I took great and gleeful delight in hearing your fabulous story of your special night with our goddess. Thank you so much for sharing. Your benign and ebullient sincerity about meeting her is so beautiful and makes me like you all the more, Brother. Since it couldn't be me, I am glad it was you!
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  1566. 10-11:30 p.m. big band gig at the hotel casino swim, eat dinner 2am-8am on stage at the Adagio Cafe Jazz club Sleep for a couple hours. Practice 4+ hours (transcribe, work on ideas) eat lunch Practice for Jazz club June - November So that's: 10pm (big band) 11:30pm (eat/swim) 2am (jam) 8am (sleep) 12pm (practice) 4:30pm (lunch) 5:30pm (rehearse) 7:30pm (nap?) 10pm Music: 1.5 hours + 6 hours + 4.5 hours + 2+/- hours = 14+/- hours a day. It's not just the hours. Its the density of hours over time, it's the professional setting, it's the camaraderie, it's the education material at his fingertips, it's the setting of feeling of "no worries" over job or food or money or housing. Doing all of that for 183 days would be life-changing no matter what you focused on. Add it ALL up and have it be motivated by LOVE (of music) and FEAR (of surviving in a uber-challenging profession) and you have 14 x 183 x some factor, say x3. Remember, he kept on adding to it. There wasn't any forgetting and re-learning. It was contiguous. Additive. I think that that is key. And being inspired by other players and being on the spot every day as he performed. All that is definitely worth a x3 factor. Super significant. Add to that Mick lessons focused on areas he needed to work on? Mick is a master musician and teacher. Oh, and not having to pay back student loans (he was on scholarship and taking a temporary leave of absence) during that time was also key. Debt is such a killer of opportunity. This was probably all made possible by him being a guy that was not only super serious about music but also a guy that was also good to be around. Take away the relational aspects and he would never have had the relationship to lead to the invite to play in the first place. 14 x 183 x 3 = 7686 hours That is SUPER substantial. (Now imagine Metheny putting in 12-16 hour days for decades in which 3.5 of those hours were performing 250/365 days a year for 2-3 decades...it begins to make sense.) By the way, a NEC Masters today costs 73k/year x 2 years so 146k. Man, his scholarship ("I was on scholarship") must have been substantial. He wanted to save money. 26 weeks x $1216 ($500 inflation adjusted to 2021) = 32k in today's dollars. But that is the way HE did it. Rick is Rick. That is key. And you are you. He found a way. You find a way. Our challenges are different today but a hungry, sold-out, diligent and decent person today that avoids debt, takes risks, adapts (classical -> jazz -> rock, player -> writer -> producer -> YouTuber) and who keeps a positive attitude and takes advantage of all opportunities that show up, while retaining a love for music, might find a way too. Or you might not. It's rough. There is a lot of talent out there. But beauty is beauty. And you are unique. And you can probably fill in the gaps of someone's musical world and make them sound better - and make their life easier and better. Do that.
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  1871. Rick, I subscribed to your show about a year or so ago and have found it extremely educational on so many musical levels. This day is exceptional for me as your heartfelt dedication to Peter Smart takes things to the humanness level in all of us. The great thing that is occurring with this video is your consideration for another human being and the nurturing that you and Peter developed over time. This allows a viewer to see the side of life from your perspective as Peter reached out to touch you, and you responded by answering his inquiry. You are certainly a very gifted musician on so many levels, but this takes things to a much more profound level. We are really just people on a planet trying our best to figure things out and express our heartfelt "art-felt" feelings through music on some level. I thank you for this eulogy for another fellow musician. Up to this point in time I have always felt rather intimidated on commenting because I know so little on the technical side of life. Learned what I could by ear and sort of hacked away to get music down on my guitar. Presently caregiver for my brother and was for my dad as he passed away in my arms some years ago. Having a loved one pass away is all to bittersweet. In my mind your happy because they are finally at rest, but for the living we miss them and their presence forever. Your videos are on many levels a surprise, one never knows what Rick will have in store for the day. Keep up the great imaginative work of teaching others what you know and touching lives in your natural way of magical wonder. Sincerely, Michael Moreau aka City Cowboy.
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  1940. I haven't the foggiest idea how this video came to be suggested to me. I'm sitting here crying. Little things told me to keep listening. Peter was born in 1930, the same year as my father was born. Peter passed on August 20th, my birthday. Like a whisper - "listen". I don't seek musicians out, but I'm learning to listen when they speak. I could not begin to explain all the things that brought forth this idea in me - learning to sing acappella in church as a kid; a novel I read; my mother's intimate relationship with the Word of God in the six weeks between her first stroke and her death; Mozart's last Requiem ("call me among the blessed"), none of it being as spectacular or pretentious as it must sound. But the thought was that if God spoke us into being, then it was the vibration of His voice that breathed life into everything. He could take a lump of clay and turn it into the sound waves of His voice. Meaning we are God's music. That is why musicians and singers - the wise men and women who study these vibrations - can make even those of us who feel like lumps of clay remember that we were spoken into being. It's a thought anyway. My father passed on August 7, 2020. He was a hard man who had forgotten who I was by the time he died. So there was no last loving moment or reconciliation. He wasn't like Peter or even Rick. But in a better time, Daddy did introduce me to "How Great Thou Art" in 4-part harmony. He introduced me to Bing Crosby, Perry Como, John Denver, Lawrence Welk, and Hee Haw on Saturday nights. Plus letting my brother and I play one side of a Beach Boys album on our record player as we lay in our beds trying to go to sleep. It wasn't a bad start to understanding that music is part of everything. And so now, because this video popped up in my feed, I've shared part of my grief journey on unsuspecting people. I'm sorry, Rick, for the loss of your friend. As a little lump of clay who needed some reminders, thank you to you and all of your followers who help make it possible for you to be here. xo c
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  2062. I LOVE YOU RICK ! Well, I loved you before, but this is something truly special and actually so life affirming for me right now. I needed this interview. How did you know ? I'm balling right now. This is such a treat. I was obsessed with Swervedriver from the first time I heard the first EP. Son of Mustang Ford is SO intense. NO ONE in the UK was playing music like that at the time. One of the most underrated bands of all time. They were SO much more than just another shoegaze band. Swervedriver put the rest to shame and never fitted the shoegazer genre at all. Way ahead of their time and the music has not aged at all. They still sound fresh today. The lyrics to Rave Down from memory... just because.... (must have listened to this song a millions times at least): "Before the pistol cracks, spins me out sideays. Like the sharp hard hit of a car crash in a dream" "Those kids on the corner, wanna' beat box my brains to bits. You can't cut creed clean, 'cos it ain't black and white like they seem" "Rave down, hit the ground" "4am on a hell gas station, before he goes onto the beach where the breeze blows easier...... flowing..." "We hung tight all night and no gig to go to. There could be something happening here, but there's just no place to go" "Your town ain't happening enough no more." "RAVE DOWN" Probably all wrong, that's how I hear it in my head. One of the best songs ever written imo. Man, I'm so overwhelmed... Swervedriver is a massive thing for me. Totally unique band that's hard to define. I'm off for a major Swervedriver binge...
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  2479. What I thought was interesting about the doc is that the discovery or re-discovery of some of these albums by the Channel 101 series creators was an organic thing: they didn't know anything about music, really. They were able to procure these LPs cheaply in the late '90's/early 00's, and subsequently learned that the same musicians showed up on album after album, which made them dig deeper into the stories behind those musicians. The "popularity" of their silly web series (which, as a 52 year old - basically the same age group as the people making the webisodes - I found hilarious and absurd) - is something they themselves seem very ambivalent about in the doc. They seemed to cringe at the faddish cover bands, stupid hats, etc. If they had wised up enough to simply not mention the moniker to Donald Fagen, they might have persuaded him to chat about the music! They also have McDonald and Lukather and others being very clearly dismissive and contemptuous of the term and its being affixed to their productive output. So anyway, you're right, Rick, that the web series is simplistic and kind of dumb, and that the doc doesn't really deal with the music in a substantive way. But you get that this is how non-musicians consume the cultural products we musicians create, right? Even Pitchfork or Rolling Stone don't ever spend a ton of time on Chuck Rainey and Bernard Purdie's contributions to American Popular Music (which doesn't make the fact more defensible, just more predictable). My take-away from the doc is that the web series creators actually are kind of in awe of the music (and rightly so!). They are not equipped to understand much about it, perhaps, (or stop short of that level of understanding, maybe), but at the end of the day, they're comedians and writers, i.e. "normal people" compared to musicians!
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  2480. So ... Rick Beato is getting his haircut and people keep recognising him. The barber is bemused and asks what gives. Rick says I'm really famous ... everybody knows me. Bog off, says the barber, I don't believe you. "Well", Rick says, "I'm off on a trip to Europe, you can tag along if you like. You'll see!". "Deal" says the barber. So they meet at the airport and the check-in clerk says "Hi Rick! How's you YouTube channel going?" and the barber is taken aback. They board the plane and the captain comes on the intercom and says "Hey Rick. Nice to have you onboard. Pop up to the flight deck later for a chinwag." The barber can't believe it. They get off the plane in Rome and the taxi driver says "Mr. Beeeeaaaaaatoooooh! I love your Beato book. I'm on page 375". Now the barber is getting the picture. So they end up in St Peter's Square. They're about 500 yards from the front when the Pope comes out to say mass. Half way through, the Pontif stops proceedings, parts the crowd with a wave of his hands and beckons Rick to join him. So that barber stands there shaking his head in disbelief as Rick plods over, and helps with the mass. Rick eventually returns to see the barber spark out, horizontal on the pavement, with medics trying to revive him. Eventually he comes to, and Rick asks if he's OK, and what happened. The barber says: "I was surprised by the check-in clerk & airline pilot. I was gobsmacked by the Itialian taxi driver, and I was utter flabbergasted by the pope. But then I'm watching you help the pope give mass at the Vatican, and the bloke beside me, taps me on shoulder and says 'Who the f*** is that with Rick Beato?'"
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  2614. This is one of the most important interactions with guitar, bass, vocal, and songwriting process to hit an interview. Being Rick is a true fan of his and a true artist/producer/YouTuber educator. His passion transcends to everyone. I as a young kid wearing the cassette “CORE” out every day until I was a Rock/Music fan for life. Devouring anything related to that “new” sound I was experiencing. My true and real emotion was attached to. For the first time the music and bands that were happing in the culture was speaking directly to my inner self in ways I’d not had. I now had a music, a therapy, and an identity beyond my situation. That ten gave me a path to one day learn, play, and write songs with one thing in mind. I want to write music that makes a person feel the way their music made me feel. Music that would carry them on into adulthood and even be passed to the next generation. It was an honor to feel like I was setting in the room now with knowledge of the process with experience. Feeling like that kid that is finally getting to hear in their own words what the process was like for this artist. It couldn’t happen with anyone with an ego. Rick that kid inside you that still loves all this music is why your channel resonates with me. When you react or ask a question I would ask I know you love it as much as me. I imagine so many people also feel that way. I’d love to be notified of his brother and Eric’s video dropping in the future. The music, the history, and relevance of this time until now will continue to be important and influence future kids like all of us.
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  3163. Rick, you're a hero. I have autism - only diagnosed 5 years ago, at age 56. I also have undiagnosed ADHD. I could read, write and tell the time before I started school. I was bright. But I failed miserably at school. Or rather, school failed me miserably. I was always the dreamer, staring out of the window, getting reports with comments like 'quiet', 'unfocused', 'dreamy', 'backward', 'incapable', 'disruptive', etc. I was, like you, a great runner and jumper (being very tall helped), but rubbish at team sports. I learnt nothing at school, and left at 15 after being hospitalised after a playground beating. I went to work as a farm labourer. 8 years later, I took an IQ test and was invited to join Mensa with an IQ of 158. 5 years after that, I graduated with a first-class degree in English and American Literature. I've taught myself to read music and to play piano, and whilst I don't have anything close to your talent and proficiency, it keeps me happy and cool. And it shows how I've proven them all wrong. I now work with young people with learning disabilities, and use my singing and musical skills to keep them entertained and engaged. My own mom was my life-saver - which is why I gave up work to look after her full-time in the last 7 months of her life. I agree with you so much about teaching. I'm now a published writer. I'm good at it, too - and it isn't easy to say that with my level of life-induced insecurity. Keep well, my friend - and keep marching to the beat of your own drummer. Have you ever wondered if you might be on the spectrum? Whatever... you are a true genius. Much love and respect.
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  3204. I find it hilarious and charming in a weird way that Rick named this video after that Adele line. It’s strange because in the video it’s just a tiny throwaway comment, and as far as I can recall, Rick usually names his videos pretty accurately describing the content or what it’s generally about. Then this totally random title makes so much more sense to me after seeing his reaction to that part of Tim’s story, it’s so infectious to hear/see true laughter. Man Rick was cracking up! I didn’t find the comment so funny but I couldn’t help laughing out loud along with Rick. That was nice and pure. Then he names this video which shows to me he still thinks it’s really funny. RICK IS THE MAN!!! I get so much valuable and entertaining information from this channel as a musician/songwriter, but I also get a lot of joy from it, from moments like this. Or some of the moments in what makes this song great, where he is just geeking out super hard to a part of a song, totally lost in his head for a few seconds, unrelated to the video he’s making or anything else in the world. Thank you Rick for being so real and candid in a YouTube full these days of channels that no matter how informative, are entirely to self aware, overthought, overedited, self conscious and/or smug(or pretending to be smug due to low self esteem). So nice to see someone just genuinely 100% into what they’re doing and not afraid to be themselves and let the video flow freely at times. Sometimes he’ll tell a story starting it to show an example of something he’s trying to explain or whatever, but meanders a bit and it kind of derails and doesn’t really get any clear point across relating to the initial topic, but I’m okay with that(there is a fine line here, if he just rambled constantly in video after video it would be super boring).  He seems to be motivated to try and make videos he hopes others will find useful, informative, educational, and inspiring, and I think he succeeds and a big part of that is he doesn’t seem to try TOO hard, meaning he plays it loose enough to not just feel like a scripted lesson, like a bad schoolteacher. The best teachers in my schools were always the ones who made you laugh, treated you as equals, and were genuinely interested and excited in sharing the days material with you. They felt like friends... Hey Rick, You probably won’t see this but I feel like writing so I’ll just continue anyhow. I stumbled across your channel accidentally pretty early on(I think you had less than 20 videos or something at that point!) and have been a huge fan ever since. I was going through a terribly dark time surrounded by death and loss and uncertainty, and I didn’t have much going on. Playing, writing, and recording music was one of the only things I had left to keep me sane and help relieve some stress. And watching your channel was not only a learning experience but also a comfort when I was very alone. Thank you Mr. Beato, high school was a long time ago, you’re my new favorite teacher.
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  3716. This is a fabulous interview. Was it your plan to put it up right about when R.E.M. was inducted into the songwriters' hall of fame, Rick? Intentional or happy coincidence, great move. This got me thinking about R.E.M. in a big way. So much so I revisited your "What was R.E.M.'s greatest song episode". I am a child of the 60s, graduated high school in 1971, I turned 18 when Alice was rockin' the airwaves with "I'm 18". In the 80s I was busy with work and then changing careers as well as a young daughter and the family life. But music was always playing in my life. So while most guys were buying bigger toys to play with on the weekends I still bought records, cassettes, and CDs and still went to the occasional concert. Somehow I missed R.E.M. when they first started out. Busy with Dire Straits, the Cars, and a plethora of 80s performers but just missed out on R.E.M. I didn't catch up with them until the 90s. Monster was my first buy of their music. But yet I'd heard some of their other hits and thought, "Man, that's great, how did I not have this?" Life went along and the years rolled by. In my life I've split my all time favourite performers and songs into two eras; 1950s through 1970s and 1980s until now. My first era all-time favourite band is The Hollies. The Beatles are unquestionably the most influential rock band of all-time to this day and they're very high on my list. But listening to the British Invasion music everyday for hours on end, along with the contemporary American music and our Can-Con Canadian rock performers I just always liked The Hollies and The Bee Gees for their incredible vocal talents. The Hollies were around as early as The Beatles and Rolling Stones but I liked their sound better, again, the harmonies. And after some consideration, because I really like Dire Straits; I never caught R.E.M. at a concert but I saw Dire Straits on their Money For Nothing and Brothers In Arms tours; I'd have to say that R.E.M. is my favourite performer from the 1980s to today. I just love their distinctive sound. As music is very subjective to every individual listener, I have my own favourite R.E.M. song, different from yours, which is fine. For me, it's "The One I Love". I call this R.E.M.'s answer to the ubiquitous power ballad of metal rock fame, and they absolutely knock it out of the park with this song. Incredibly infectious, a true ear worm of a song. And yet, lyrically beautiful, powerful, and hauntingly melancholy all at the same time. A musical masterpiece.
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  3839. (This comment is in response to a 6 month old video of Rick, about being a music snob, which I wrote today and have pasted here as the video is freshly uploaded and I still wanna know your thoughts) So here is the thing, its been 6 months that the video has been up and I don’t know if people will read this. Its like this - Disney Cartoons years ago were drawn on paper, now its all digitally animated. Which is better? Nope. Both are great art in different forms, both require exceptionally high skills to make it really high quality and polished and to that professional level. Same with film industry, old times it was recorded on actual films and black and white etc, slowly as technology advanced now its recorded digitally and has soo much computer CGI and VFX (Computer Visual Effects), you cannot hate a gorgeous Sci-fi movie for being too “computer driven”, old movies have their own charm, & new movies have their own charm. And its not a competition between old and new, just appreciate the art and intricacies in both the Morden and Old. Same with music. Exactly the same. You are a musical snob or artistic snob only if you fail to recognise the good aspects in other genre rather than your first preferred genre. Modern music lovers hating old music, they are snobs as well. Old music lovers hating “good” well received modern songs just because its new music and made in a modern way, they are snobs as well. Rick Beato is the guy who appreciates both old music and new music because he is a producer as well as an instrument player, so he has high experiences in both fields of music, hence he understands the depth of both sides of music and understands and appreciates both types of music, old and new. Good Music is not always about theoretical complexity, it can be about the intense energy high production can give to people wanting to dance and jump and loose their minds. Or it can be just 3 simple chords looping with piano and vocals with lyrics that melt your heart emotionally. Or it can be rock bands giving you the badass energy. Or jazz that can be very relaxing. Or classical music that takes you on its own musical journey. Theres no right or wrong with good music that is doing the best the genre can be, hating the genre, the way its made or new or old eras of music is ignorance and lack of your own understanding of the factors, techniques and situations that make these songs and the particular music great. And again, not all old music was awesome, and not all new music is awesome. But all good music of every era and best songs of every genre is awesome, if you are not a snob. And again, every genre has its own place, you cannot play Jazz in EDM festivals where people come to jump and loose their minds and enjoy the energy and hype a lot, you cannot play EDM or Pop where people come to quietly listen to relaxing jazz and classical music. You cannot play hard rock in funerals, where those simple 3 chord loop emotional piano and vocal driven song might be the only song being played on repeat the whole day. If you think about this and in this way, your musical world will start solving and you will have a deep appreciation for every good song of every genre and every era. And you will never be a musical snob.
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  4117. Look: Rick is talking BIG PICTURE about POPULAR music. And in a BIG PICTURE way, POPULAR music (e.g. the music that is generally being listened to by the most people) has absolutely, 100% become more homogenous. This is an inevitable byproduct of music being easier and cheaper to make and market. (Another of Rick's points.) When you look at the music that was popular in the 60s or 70s or 80s, there was far less homogeneity. Why? Because music was so hard to make and market back then that we only heard the absolute best of the best. (Again, I'm talking BIG PICTURE—there are always exceptions!) Today it's impossible (even for music scouts and labels) to hear every new song on Earth and choose the best of the best. Add to this the inescapable fact that RISK is avoided like the plague by major studios now (another topic Rick has discussed), and it all adds up to a TON OF MEDIOCRITY. The percentage of the world's population today of artists who are truly great and truly innovative and unique (and cannot be imitated) has NOT gone up. It's still very, very low. We are not drowning in genius today (despite every new album being called "groundbreaking" or "fresh" by idiot music reviewers). I watch Bernth's response to Rick's video and agree with Bernth when he says there has never been a better time to be a musician. He's right! But that does NOT mean the number of great musicians producing truly great music has gone up exponentially. It hasn't. There's just a sh*tload more of bad, average, and just "good" music out there...but not a sh*tload more GENIUS music out there.
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  4270. I too have experienced the phenomenon of having perfect pitch and then "losing" it. I have a theory as to why this happens, and I think it has to do with the structure of the inner ear and how our brain interprets pitch from the ear signals. Various hairs are located along the length of the cochlea (the coiled inner ear), and the brain distinguishes pitch by how different sound frequencies stimulate the various hairs in different locations. In the case of people with perfect pitch, the brain cannot only tell the relative relationship of the various frequencies from this information, but can also assign an absolute reference to each pitch that we hear as tonal "color". As we age, this absolute reference is still there (in my experience), but it shifts downwards, so that tones sound sharper to me than before. (This has happened for others--Dimitri Shostakovich complained when he was old, that "orchestras are playing sharper and sharper." ) I would posit that the ability of my brain to interpret the information has changed not at all, or very little, but that with age, the dimensions of my inner ear have changed, just as my face has acquired wrinkles, etc. This subtle change is enough to shift the information sent to my brain from the cochlea hairs, and so I hear everything a bit higher than before. I first noticed this change in my late 40's, and now, at age 70, it is quite pronounced, over a semi-tone so far as I can tell. I have also noticed that if I block my nose and increase the air pressure in my sinuses ("pop" my ears), this causes a temporary shift in the pitch of music until the pressure is released. The pressure increase probably alters the dimension of the cochlea slightly, which is enough to change the perceived pitch to my brain. This correlates with my thesis that an age related change in the inner ear dimensions is responsible for my absolute pitch perception changing.
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  4395. It is with extreme hesitation that I make this comment, because I really love Rick's channel and all of his commentary , but here goes anyway: notwithstanding the evident erudition, and chops, I don't really dig most of this. It sounds like practicing to me, not music. It's all straight eighths. It never swings. It isn't melodic, in the sense that 5 minutes after hearing these lines you could sing them, which is just another way of saying it isn't memorable. Again, it sounds like someone powering through a set of Hanon exercises, albeit a very modern and quirky set of Hanon exercises. This is all a bit mysterious to me because a great deal of Rick's content makes it crystal clear that he digs all the classic stuff that i do as well. I suppose Rick just has a more open mind than I do. He loves all the old classic rock and jazz, but he also digs more modern stuff. For my part, music pretty much ended in the late 70s. I'm still stuck in my "jazz coma," as I think he ( deprecatingly ?) referred to it, with a classic rock and blues coma added on top for good measure. That's a deep coma, admittedly. I'd rather listen to Kenny Burrell or Grant Green, or Jimmy Smith or Arnett Cobb or Wynton Kelly or Hank Mobley or Bill Evans or Ahmad Jamal or Howlin Wolf or Jimmy Reed or Lazy Lester or Elmore James or Duane Allman or Steve Winwood or ......you get the picture.... This is what makes horse races. Different tastes....though I still expect to be crucified for my comment, so let the attacks begin.....
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  4611. Many of us (particularly those born before 1990) are familiar with high quality audio/video/interview/documentary-style production but until the last 5 years or so, it was exclusively a product of large media or entertainment companies and virtually unattainable for the DIY everyday person. Yes, there were tons of quality content DIY productions, but you could always tell they were "indie" due to the lack of "polish". (Not saying one's better or worse, but only that you could tell what was pro and amateur). But around 2018 or so, pro quality tools became accessible to the everyday person. Yet that did not mean the everyday person could produce pro, polished material. It took talented DIY creatives like Rick to experiment and bridge that gap between $1M production budgets and ~$1K production budgets to show that it was possible to get pro results without a prod "deal" or massive financing. While I have no idea what Rick spends on his content productions, it's still obvious looking at the early days of his channel up thru today that he was a pioneer, organically growing, better and better, to the point that it's indistinguishable from the biggest Hollywood budget films and productions. So much so that I even take it for granted because I'm so used to his quality whether visual, sonic, story telling, setting, editing, lighting, graphic overlays and more. But when you really think about it, and remove the great content for a moment, and realize the work that goes on behind the scenes, Rick is truly a legend and an inspiration to so many people in so many ways across so many industries- it's astounding and quite humbling. He may have a large team today (he deserves it) but he got here organically and with integrity and top line quality. I really find no reason to watch "TV" these days when i know i could watch any episode on Beato's channel and be endlessly entertained and inspired to strive for 1/8th of what he has delivered to us... *for FREE*. Craziness. Thanks Rick! (Not a paid promotion!)
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  4713. Rick, I'm so sorry for your loss. I wept A lot throughout this video, because I knew what was coming and because I can empathize very well with you in this. I grew up extraordinarily blessed in many ways. Some of these are the reasons why I watch your channel. In my home there was always music, musicians of all kinds and my father played many instruments and sung multiple genres of music himself. I have so many fond memories of those times in our home, other's, at gigs, and in the studio. My father succumbed this summer to the bug my brother and I barely survived ourselves. He too received the best medicine in the world but too late and his lungs had been too damaged. My aunt had been the first taken earlier this year but we didn't know what it was or have the medicine yet to try to stop it. My father was, for many reasons, the greatest man I've ever known. As I sit here tonight, watching over me from above and behind my left shoulder on my living room wall is one of my favorite photographs: Me, age 3, fast asleep on dad's lap with my left arm dropped down and my right flopped over the acoustic guitar dad was holding, his head bent down upon the top of mine and his eyes also closed. Music is an incredible love language, when we choose wisely. I buy instruments for my grandchildren... And I listen to them, because I now know a thing or two, and appreciate a lot more. Thank you again for all of your content, Rick, and especially for this one. God bless you and your family in this rough season and always. May you truly enjoy their music, and they yours.
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  5056. Hey Rick, Perhaps the reverse thought experiment might provide you with some insight. I turn sixty in less than a month, so we’re sort of from the same pond (old white guys). I grew up in a violent, chaotic environment, one in which I was never safe (home/school/church). I associate traditional church music with horrendous abuse and violence. (Jungle Love) Steve Miller was being played while my school’s best and brightest sexually assaulted me. Up until I was 19 years old, I have almost no happy memories or associations. Once I managed to be freed from the abuse, I developed a love for music. I can go through lists of music from about 1982 onward and find a bazillion tracks I love. But, the top 40 AM pop stuff from my middle school through high school years tends to make me feel physically ill. Just about any Steve Miller song will bring on flashbacks and panic attacks. And believe me, I’ve spent more hours than you can count in therapy. It’s helped, but the terror is pretty much hardwired in. I can tell you this (I'm a neurobiologist): As a general rule, the deep associations (fun, safe, love, danger, fear, etc.) that the brain develops with a given genre will not change much over time. This is particularly true if the associations are highly positive or negative. Rage rock may not be your go-to music at 90… But since it puts a big assed grin on your face today, it will tomorrow (provided something doesn’t go organically wrong in your noggin.) Peace, Love, and Cocktails. PS I trust you’re wise enough to be vaccinated against COVID.
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  5117. As a millennial and teacher at a study course revolving around Game Design & Production, I kinda agree with most of the sentiments of Rick here. But at the same time, it’s still mostly generalising. I talk to young students (18-25) all the time, essentially every day about games and other media and there’s a lot of appreciation for music still. Many are hardcore fanboys of certain genres and sometimes even specific bands, the latter being less common from my observations. I think it comes down to the individual, but we also live (and they’ve always lived that way) in a time of information overload. Games provide stimuli, both audible and visually. And many games are about accomplishing something. Back then, trying to emulate a famous guitar player and becoming as good as that person is probably comparable to becoming a good player in a game these days. On top of that, they know that no one, or most people won’t make any money as musicians. Decades ago, music was THE THING because of the lack of alternatives. The Video Game scene didn’t exist the way it does today and there was quite some Stigma (“Nerds”). That’s gone now. By comparison, it seems that music alone just can’t compete with the promises of virtual realities. We “moved on”. I find it sad personally, since I remember buying CDs in my local store - that’s a concept most young adults don’t even understand. I did that before they were born. Time flies and moves on. Doesn’t mean that you won’t find many young Metal heads in mosh pits on festivals or young adults wearing band Shirts, though.
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  5566. Hey Rick. 100% behind you. I must admit, I felt guilty after watching your last video as I had to lean on AI to produce some drum tracks, simply because I don't have the space for a drum set nor the budget to buy one to learn. In my view, AI does have some pretty convincing use cases, but I'd only use it as the means to sketch a draft of what I envisage for a song and then give the primordial demo to actual musicians to work off of. I also have an 18 year old who I attempted to teach guitar, but just like you said, he gave up because it was too hard. On the other hand I also taught one of his classmates, and the difference couldn't be more evident. The main thing is that his friend had a hunger and motivation to learn, and was willing to put time into it. To give my son some credit, he taught himself to beat box just because he really wanted to. I guess my point is that we should be tuning into what the young ones are really interested in and tapping into their motivation, and feeding it hoping to take them along on the journey of discovery. I am not despairing yet. There are 8 billion humans on this planet and even if there is a fraction of a percent that have the ability to tap into their potential and pursue it, something new, exciting and profound will come out. In the words of our famous Prime Minister here in Australia, Paul Keating, , "Maintain your rage!" my friend. You're doing great work and it will bear fruit. Don't despair ... lean in. Great achievement requires great effort. Warmest regards!
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  5583. This is necessarily going to be a longer-than-typical post, but please bear with me; I do have a couple of points on this topic, but I have to lay out the scenario to properly explain first. (And I apologize for the length of this post, of course.) Since watching this video a couple of hours after it was posted, I’ve been thinking about it a lot. As others have said, the difference between the .08’s and the .10’s is remarkable. Except for a couple of guitars, I’ve always insisted on .10’s because I thought that thinner gauges = smaller tone spectrum. I was wrong. As I posted, though, I’d be interested to see if there’s a marked difference in sustain between those gauges – assuming there was an objective way to test that. I suspect that the lighter gauges result in less sustain, but what do I know? I thought that lighter gauges resulted in thinner tone, so I was wrong about that, so maybe I’m wrong about sustain, too. But there’s an elephant in the room and it occurs to me often when I see and hear these A/B comparisons, by you guys and by other folks on YouTube and elsewhere. Rhett even mentions it, albeit obliquely, in both this video and his tests in his studio. And that idea is simply this: bias. In the physics world, we have a concept commonly known as “scientific bias,” where researchers have a tendency to favor one outcome over another because they want to believe it’s true. Quite often experimentalists may report inaccurate results because their actual results differ from the outcome they were expecting. Physicists must constantly be aware of scientific bias and develop methods in an attempt to root it out. The “double-blind” method of experimentation – where neither the physicist nor the persons preparing materials for testing know which variable is which – is one such attempt to safeguard against bias, although it’s hardly bulletproof. The traditional method of reducing the influence of bias is to remove the human element from the equation entirely, if possible. Rhett mentioned that while playing .08’s, he noticed his picking attack changed, based on the feel of the strings on the guitar. This, in turn, may have made a difference in the quality of his sound. Maybe not a lot, given, but it still may have been a variable. So it occurs to me that the only real way to measure the frequency response curve of different gauges of strings is to have a machine plucking them instead of a human. Surely the string manufacturers have developed and use such a device during the R&D phase. I mean, how else are they going to get reliable, accurate and consistent results when testing frequency responses of various gauges of strings? Removing the human element from the equation should – in theory, anyway – produce more accurate results that show what might happen when humans pick the strings. And, of course, such a device would allow testers to vary the amount of force applied to the string, and record the results of different pressure. Finally, a less subjective way to test these theories may be with the use of highly-sensitive frequency response analyzers. It’s probably highly subjective to do the tests as shown in the video (however you convinced me!). But a frequency analyzer would show concrete evidence that the results shown in the video were actually accurate. At the end of the day, I think that videos like this are amazingly helpful – especially to amateurs like me who don’t really consider the idea of testing different string gauges (and all the other tests you’re nice enough to post, of course). But to be accurate (or at least as accurate as possible), I think would require the use of specialized equipment, which most of us simply don’t have. What you’ve shown us is a real-world example, which is quite helpful, and I’m grateful for it. (I’m switching to .08’s on my main two guitars on the basis of the video, although I’ve never tried that set in my long guitar-playing career.) But to be completely certain, I think you’d need the equipment mentioned – plus likely others that haven’t occurred to me. Once again, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you, Rick and Rhett and Dave and everyone else involved in this and your many other videos. As I mentioned, I’m an amateur and having all your expertise has taught me a great deal. I am in your debt.
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  5670. I recently subscribed to your channel and have been binging your videos over the past couple of days and am loving it! Your deep appreciation of all kinds of music makes your videos so enjoyable to watch! I especially love your "What Makes This Song Great" videos, not only because I enjoy all of the songs you have featured in the series, but also because the videos have given me such a great appreciation for all of the work and thought that goes into producing music and they also allow me to peer into the process behind the scenes! My first ever live concert was Heart & Robert Palmer in the late 70’s, early 80’s in Concord, CA, and recently on a whim, I searched YouTube to find siblings who write & perform music together. I've stumbled across 3 cool bands: Larkin Poe, First Aid Kit and Jocelyn & Chris and all are talented and wonderful in my opinion. I wanted to share these 3 bands with you as a fellow music lover and maybe you might be inspired to make a "What Makes This Song Great" video of one or more of these bands down the line. Any plans to cover Korn anytime soon (if you haven't yet)? I also have very diverse musical tastes and would like to mention just a few bands/musicians that I appreciate and maybe they will appeal to you also. You might even be familiar with some, or all of them, but here they are anyway: Our Lady Peace (their concept album Age of Spiritual Machines is so good), H.I.M (their song Sleepwalking Past Hope is awesome!), Kate Bush (absolutely all of her music is incredible), Tea Party (Canadian band), Agnes Obel, Noe Venable, Avial (cool Indian band), Motherjane (another Indian rock band) and Bloodywood (Indian metal, so fun to watch these guys!). The Cure is my favorite band and I've been a fan since the late 70's so I was thrilled to see your "What Makes This Song Great" video of Just Like Heaven. My brother's band All Souls opened for Tool last year and being a huge Tool fan since the 90's, it was a dream come true not only for me, but for my brother who is also a huge fan of theirs. I was so honored to have been able to meet Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor after the show in Des Moines, IA, and they are both such humble and genuine guys! Finally, if you aren't aware of the O'Keefe Music Foundation, do check them out on YouTube. From their website: Since 2006 the O’Keefe Music Foundation has enabled children from around the world to record and film their musical performances for free. With your help, talented young musicians are provided with top of the line instruments, professional recording equipment and the ability to follow their dreams! Enjoy and thank you, thank you, thank you so very much Rick Beato for your channel and for making learning about music so much fun!!
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  6064. I just thought I would share this, as I have a pretty crazy University admission story, though in the opposite way. I was actually very heavily prepared for my audition. I got up at five am, five days a week to practice before school, and auditioned with all ARCT level pieces. Basically I crushed my audition, and the classical guitar prof told me the same day, with two weeks of auditions left that the spot was mine (they only had one Classical Guitar performance major slot per year at the University of British Columbia). So yeah, fantastic. However, due to academic differences from my home province and BC I actually would have had to take some extra 0 credit classes to be eligible for that school, essentially they have a grade 13 in BC. The admissions "person" filed the wrong transcripts in my application, then went on vacation so when I noticed and attempted to alert them she was not available. The person's grades they filed in my application were actually lower than mine, so I was concerned however they met all the requirements. THEN, they would have caught this as the persons English grade was below 86 or whatever the cutoff was, which requires an extra course on university level writing...LPI or whatever they called it, however because of a computer glitch I was one of three students able to register into English 110 without meeting that requirement. So due to a human error, and a computer glitch I was able to register and attend my first year of university, despite not even being recognized as a high school graduate by this province. Once they discovered it they told me I could stay based on the strength of my audition, and that I was the only Classical Guitarist accepted that year, but I should make sure I finish that first year at which point the differences won't matter. I just thought that might amuse, in light of the subject of this video haha.
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  6152. Rick, you are a first rate interviewer, no one better. You've done many first rate interviews with many of the top tier music artists of our time -- no one's interviewed more nor better. But this interview with Al Dimeola is one for the ages. I don't "want" to put a superlative label on it like "the best," but if there is a 10 out of 10, you and he hit it. Just like the conversation during the first 20 minutes where he describes "getting" the perfect take when recording, this 1-1/2 hour interview is a perfect glimpse into this talented master's mind. For me this is a perfect take. At 21:30, you cut to him demo'ing on the classical guitar, and just like the story about Paco loosening up with a little weed, Al loosened and warmed while playing that piece(s) until he was so loose, lucid, and friendly for the final hour as he shared a dozen little secrets that guide his style and art. I will be listening to this interview over and over again. I have been watching you for years and learned both to listen better and learned things to listen for. I had thought (because I don't know any music artists) that YOU brought your education, practice, diverse work experience, and personally skillful artistry to bear to make you see music both as a whole yet more discreetly with more understanding than anyone else . . . until this interview. Al Dimeola is a real artist demonstrating both musical artistry together with a genius talent that he's spent a lifetime honing. Without any denigration to any of the other top artists that you've interviewed, this guy Al Dimeola checks the box for every column under musical mastery. I didn't want to use superlatives but I guess I did anyway. Congratulations on a revealingly honest look into the genius musical mind of Al Dimeola. Kudo! You (and he) deserve it.
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  6326. I don't think bringing up the exceptions is diving into the real discussion here. I'm an exception, I grew up in the 80's/90's playing way too many video games, and listening to way too much music and now I get to write music for video games. That path exists, but its not the norm, I agree. I think maybe the term "care" could mean different things to different people, and even to different time periods. When I care for something, I typically want to lean in, to learn from, to create more. I'm constantly looking for the loop of inspiration to fill my needs. Whether it's music, or drawings, or even food - if I eat an amazing quesadilla I'm going to cherish it, study it, and learn to recreate it, put my own mark on it and pass it along back to the ether of quesadillas. The quesadillaverse. But someone may also care for the same things as you or I and not have to decompose, reconstruct, and synergize it. They just enjoy it, digest it, and put it on a shelf. Or delete it from the hard drive because they're running out of space, or what have you. It's disposable. It will be replenished. It is a given. Which of course ties into how art/media is produced. These days, I don't need to buy a physical album, I can just store it in the cloud and stream it. I don't need to learn how to cook, but I can follow this video tutorial on making the perfect quesadilla. The only problem we have is which recipe do I follow? There are so many. We have regurgitated our encyclopedia into the universe without proper curation and perspective. It exists. It will be replenished. I can get to it later. Everything is amazing. Everything is flat. It is loud and compressed and easy to digest. Heck, even my kids all are super interested into music, but ultimately games win over. So I'd love to point out my exceptionalism and say "you're wrong, old man!" But I don't think you are.
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  6468. Hi Rick, agree with everything you say! I've had perfect pitch all my life, and also very good relative pitch (that random interval test was brutal though!), but now in my later fifties, I find it's pretty much gone; not quite sure when, as I'm a composer rather than performer, but I'll write down an idea, then check it on a keyboard and find out I'm hearing it in a totally different key to the one I've notated! Actually, I've always had slightly flat perfect pitch, by a few cents (I checked it on a school oscilloscope by whistling a "perfect" A into it as a teenager!). Min was also slightly strange in that I was aware of the cycle of 5ths, and "sharpness" and "flatness" of key centres, which meant that I was more likely to be a perfect fourth or fifth out (e.g. E to A) than a semitone on (e.g. E to Eb) One reason that you might have been able to tune the guitar perfectly (though it was probably luck!) could have been that you are used to the sound of the open strings and their harmonic content. As strings get tighter, and closer to breaking point, the overtones vibrate more freely, giving richer higher harmonic content and you could be recognizing the sound of a string at a certain tension, rather than the pitch as such. As such, upper frequency hearing loss may confuse the brain in later years. But I'm sure that lots of people do have pitch memory, so that you can feel when a long piece finally returns to its starting pitch, or the long-term pitch relationships that are sometimes present in the span of an entire film, where the hero or heroine literally ends up in a different place to where they started, in terms of emotional or experiential knowledge and in terms of key centre; and that chase sequences often flit through many keys very quickly and either end up where they started, or in a different place - and we can subconsciously know which is which. tl:dr - great video Rick, yes I've lost perfect pitch in my fifties!
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  6674. G'day from Australia Rick. You've struck a chord with me again. Hearing you talk of time spent with your Dad listening to music was very touching and brought back memories. I remember listening to Crosby, Stills and Nash, their first album, with my Dad. He was a mildly successful singer, songwriter and guitarist and he would school me "listen to all of the vocals. Hear the accompaniments and allow the music to wash over you. Let it enter your mind. Feel it in your chest. Imagine you're on stage singing." I did that. We listened to many genres of music...but especially classical, opera and harmonic vocal groups(Bread, the Eagles etc) but NEVER jazz. I was in a summer school holiday 'Swing Choir' for a few summers and one year he came to see us perform at Melbourne Town Hall, in Victoria, Australia. I was lucky enough to have a scatting solo in the gig and a few other featured vocal parts. I recall that afterwards he was complimentary but clearly said "I don't know why you bother with this jazzy stuff. You're better suited to lounge music(Sinatra type) and musicals." To me, it was a punch in the guts. All those years of listening to HIS music. I'd appreciated it all. Drank in the minutiae and sang all of the parts with him harmonizing and having a ball. But then, to realise that no matter what I did or possibly achieved in a pure 'Jazz Style' my Dad would never enjoy it...that was tough. My Dad passed away nearly 20yrs ago of colon cancer. Before he died he told me "You have always been a better singer than me. You've worked so hard at your craft but I was always scared that you'd surpass me in success. So I never encouraged you." I was stunned. Not because of his selfishness...oh, we all knew his ways long before then. It was his acceptance of my art being good enough. That was all I needed to know he truly cared. Acknowledgement from someone you respect so much is a powerful thing. Once again Rick...I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing another story from your life.
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  6739. Rick probably won't read it, but this could help to reshape his perspective a little, so here goes nothing. As a person interested in orchestral music in my youth, it's always interesting to me to see how different the time scales of mainstream music are. You can absolutely have a 40 years career if you cultivate your audience and turn away from the mainstream, and many rock bands (and so many other kinds of musicians, but let's focus on rock) are still touring and releasing albums every 3 to 5 years. Judas Priest's last two albums went straight to their top 5. Iron Maiden and Aria still sell out stadiums. Wacken is still a blast every single year. Last month I went to a concert of such a band. Paralamas do Sucesso (Fenders of Success) is a Brazilian rock band from the 80s with a very characteristic punk-reaggae-brass style (and yes, it works) that plays ball with the mainstream, and are thus more "pop" on singles (which I don't like), but whose albums and live performances tend to lean more heavily into rock (which I love). Every couple years they score a hit, and that's everything they need to have a setlist so packed that no concert with less than 3 hours is gonna make everybody happy. They sing in Portuguese, so their market is mostly isolated from the US and most of Europe, but they can still easily pack 10k venues for several consecutive nights. And those artists exist in every major market. It's not just an Anglosphere thing. Maybe what happened to those musicians is that they got there first. They opened the doors of booming musical markets (in tastes, in styles, in places) and guaranteed they'd have a first row seat to everything that followed. When they retire, they'll be replaced by... nobody. They'll be forever "the great record artists of the late 20th century". Just as the great Western composers from before recordings, they'll be the great artists from before streaming, before AI, before whatever else happens with music this century. We grew up witnessing something that will never, can never, maybe should never, happen again.
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  6787. Here is what GPT says about this video if you didn't get the answer to the title: The theme of the video revolves around the fine details of professional guitar tone and the aspects amateurs often overlook. In summary, here are the key points: 1. Equipment Synergy: It’s not just about how a pedal, guitar, or amp works individually but how they function together as a system. For example, tone and reverb settings need to complement other gear. 2. Quick Adaptation: Time is critical in a studio setting. Professionals can adjust their gear and tone within seconds, while amateurs tend to spend too much time tinkering. 3. Room and Atmosphere: Guitarists must consider the reactions and vibe of others in the room (e.g., the artist, producer, friends). This can influence tone and performance. 4. Amp and Mic Positioning: Proper placement of amps and microphones makes a big difference. For instance, where the mic is positioned on the speaker cone affects the brightness or depth of the tone. 5. Different Gear Inspires Different Playing Styles: Professionals understand that different amps or effects push them to play in unique ways. Amateurs often try to play the same way regardless of the gear. 6. Instant Improvisation: Pros adapt immediately to the tone and effects provided by the equipment, playing riffs or melodies that suit the sound in real time. 7. Character of Equipment: Every piece of gear has its own unique tone and feel. For example, an old Marshall amp’s “thin” or “fat” tones dictate what genre or style it’s suited for. 8. Minimalism and Selectivity: Using too much gear isn’t always better. Often, a few well-chosen pedals or a simple setup can be far more effective. This video highlights how professional guitarists use their equipment not just to produce tones but to tell a story. Amateurs often miss these nuances.
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  6834. As a CCF patient (3xCABG-2012) I can share some things with you. About 2 weeks after surgery I had my first big sneeze. HOLY SHIZ!!! I thought my ribcage had launched into Lake Erie! I was soon laughing about it, but it was unexpected and sharp. It gets less sensitive as time goes. The biggest thing that they don't tell you is that "It's ALL About the Breathing." The extent of your recovery from surgery is linked to how well you relearn to breathe and how much you strengthen your breathing. That means... the dreaded... Cardio Exercise. I don't know how you take care of yourself... whether you exercise or run or bike.. But... Pick Something! Something that you can stand to do that is cardio. Preferably, sustained cardio (at least for several 5 minute spurts over 30 to 60 minutes. Something that makes your heart beat fast and hard. Well... Let me stop there and say, "Only with your Doctors' Approval." My guess is... within the next 45 days. I biked for a while and really enjoyed it, but... good old running (I used to hate running) is the most direct way. I enjoy my runs but the best thing about running is how good it feels when you stop. LOL The cardiologists and surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic (CCF) are actual Rockstars. Yes. I meant to say it. They're not necessarily the guys or ladies that you would want to hang out with, but they are Real Fucking Scientists who have beat out top Med School Grads from the entire planet. If you ask a question, you better be prepared to comprehend the answer. Rick... I wept 3x during the entire experience. 1. When I had my initial heart attack. All I could think of was my daughter who I was the main parent to. I told the Life Flight Sky EMT "I can't die! I have a 10 year old daughter." 2. I had to wait 3 months between my heart attack and 3xCABG for a whole bunch of genetic studies. Every male in my family have had an MI or died of one young. I had 3 months of pre-surgery meetings and tests. The sugeon himself was a very blunt man.... LOL. He didn't sugar coat NUTHIN'! I hadn't realized that there was a video tape (like a Flouroscope) of the catherization that initially saved my life. I just burst into tears uncontrollably at the moment that the blockage was opened and the damage to my heart stopped. 3. Was another meeting pre surgery when he described how they stop anf restart the heart. It had only just dawned on me that you can't sew up a beating heart. I was the youngest patient in the cardiac recovery ward (46). A fact that I was NOT proud of. I had worked as an overnight recording engineer in Detroit and I used to smoke tons of cigs and eat shitty and overwork myself. There was a string genetic component to my cardiac issues, but my behaviour poured gasoline on it. I am no longer in the business for other reasons, but I dabble and it is not the music that was harmful. It was cigs, shitty food, and staying up for 32 hours. That was 12 years ago. Anyhow.... Everybody is different, so what I described for me may not be your experience. I gotta go. My daughter (all grown now) has my Cleveland Clinic Heart Pillow. We Love You! Take Care of yourself! Medications take some time and some experimenting to calibrate. I can tell you more later. Gotta go for now.
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  6931. Rick, this might be a bit lengthy, but I hope you read it. Even if you don't, I want to note down my respect for you in here. I'm sure there are many others who think like me. I may not know how long I've been following you, but your work is a constant topic among my musician friends and me. If they haven't heard of you, I make it a point to introduce and recommend your work. I'm a 48-year-old family business consultant, but I've played guitar since my childhood, and now my young daughter is growing up to be a musician. I share what I've learned from you with her as well. Here's what I want to say: you are among the most knowledgeable, incessantly learning, and practicing individuals I've ever encountered. You're on my list of role models. In my opinion, you've rightfully earned your place among the great rock legends. I sincerely hope you'll be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame one day - an honor you deserve more with each passing day. Your contributions to music are indescribably significant and beyond any dispute. Why am I writing this message now? In this video, you're talking about your efforts to improve in your work. I'm aware that being a YouTuber is neither your primary profession nor the one you've practiced the longest. Yet in whatever you do, you strive for excellence, which is evident - most of your videos are practically flawless, much like how almost every Toto album feels like a ‘Best of Toto’ compilation. These attributes not only earn you tremendous respect from millions but also inspire someone like me, a family business consultant. We love you, Rick. Rock on, rock hard.
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  7341. Rick, this was a sad story to hear but thank you for sharing it. I'm not sure what I can say that any of your thousands of adoring fans haven't already said; however, I'm gonna go out on a limb and hope that you may actually personally read this and see through the redundancy: I sincerely hope you did not, and moreso DO not struggle with any kind of survivor's guilt over what happened. In a case like this, where you talk to the person hours before the event, it is natural to feel like there's something you could have done or said to make a difference but that is almost never the case. As you acknowledged, this was an ongoing struggle on his part and it was gonna happen no matter what. I would bet everything I have that the supposedly nonchalant phone call you had with him that morning was him wanting to hear your voice one last time. Because you were that good of a friend to him. I don't know the details and I'm sorry if I'm overstepping. It's just something I needed to say. You seem like a great guy and, despite how many takes you had to record and edit to keep a straight face for this, the pain was blatantly evident when you mentioned both your father's and Johnny's deaths. I found this channel shortly after Chris Cornell's passing, thanks to the YouTube algorithms, and have been a religious viewer ever since. I recommend you to every single musician I know and many have followed. No one deserves success more than you - you're basically giving away a premium, interactive education in all levels of music, based on almost half a century of REAL experience. It blows my mind. I've been playing guitar since age 13 (Sep 10th, 1994) but had hit a lull in my 30s due to, well... life. Thanks to your channel lighting a fire under my ass 3 years ago, I now have my own music studio in a beautiful old refurbished river-side brick paper mill built in 1838 up in Massachusetts and a serious collection of gear and high hopes for my future sanity through making music. I hope I get a chance to meet you someday and say thank you for that. People who don't even know you love you, man. If that's not a meaningful accomplishment, I don't know what is. :)
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  7460. Queen paid tribute to John Lennon the next day..... Hi Rick, very tasteful and respectful comments you made, as always. We are the same age, only a year old when JFK died and too young to be aware of the passing of all those other great artists you listed (though I do remember being very sad when Elvis and then Marc Bolan died in 1977) On 8 December 1980, I was very excited to be going to see Queen live in London at Wembley (the arena, not the stadium). I was 17, almost 18 and this was only my second 'big' live gig (first was AC/DC just two weeks before) Queen with Freddie were brilliant of course and I couldn't have been happier that night. But in the UK we didn't get the news about John Lennon till the next day, so Tuesday 9 December is our sad day to remember. Because John was shot late at night on the Monday. No 24 hour news in the UK then, and of course no Internet. I don't think I've ever gone from feeling so much elation over music, to sadness, in under 24 hours. Reading the Queen archives, during the Tuesday night London gig, the band did a cover of 'Imagine' as a tribute. Reports say it was a very emotional experience for the band and audience, especially being in John's home country. Roger Taylor was in tears at the end, reports said. Queen, like so many other bands that came after The Beatles, were huge fans. On the next Queen album, Brian would write a song called 'Put Out The Fire' about gun deaths in the US, and Freddie would write 'Life Is Real', a piano-based song about John. No Beatles, No Queen...and no many other bands who followed R.I.P. John Lennon
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  7464. What I can't believe, is how this sort of commentary never was part of MTV type of interview. (Though I have to say I did see SOME interviews which were about the actual music. But this was less and less the case) Of course for the most part, journalist music critics never were schooled into music. The point I'm making is, if it were for enthusiast professional musician-commenters in the style Rick is doing this tremendously well, mainstream music industry wouldn't suck as much. Good thing is, Rick is underlining the gems in popular music today. He's not just throwing some superlatives, but he SHOWS what is musically going on in the 'gem-songs' and legendary artists/groups in their artistry. No streetwise bullshit, just actual facts and aspects like musical sound, texture, chord progessing, phrasing in melody and rhythm. Also what I like: Rick is that much of a music lover; popular, classical eras, jazz..it's all there. To me this would be THE CHANNEL in the time were all music theory puzzle pieces unveiled themselves to me when I was scrutining how to play all these songs I liked on the piano and my weeks were filled by one after another epiphany on how music evolved in harmony and time. A lot of young musicians feel kind of lonely when going through this process, but feel more connected kind of related to the musicians/bands they're listening to. How cool it is, nowadays 15 yr olds can watch this channel sharing the awe of good music boosting their development in essences to songwriting and creativity. This must lead up to a lot of good music in the future.
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  7503. Music is getting worse not just because people are spending more time on social media, it's getting worse because it's becoming essentially MEDIATED by social media. And Rick has referenced this quite a bit but didn't make it such a point here - the extent to which top 40 stuff in particular is seemingly being released FOR TikTok, and the extent to which TikTok with the necessarily short attention spans and gimmicky visual accompaniments is clearly changing the nature of the music people are both producing and consuming. Look at Google trends for anything to do with HISTORY liekwise, look at the way enrollments in history degrees have fallen off a cliff in recent years. Future genetions are just going to live in an eternal vapid, shortform present. Social media plays to so many of the lowest common denominator regressive tendencies in human psychology, but I don't know what you do about it. Banning it is clearly not the answer, but it's very hard to conceive how you'd regulate it in a way that enforced quality content, in-depth longform topical engagement, genuine debate rather than shouting and abuse, etc. I think future generations are going to view the advent of social media as a tipping point towards a lowest common denominator version of humanity. I think the only way you push back is by participating on the platforms with quality content. So Rick is doing exactly the right thing for the future of humanity by raising these issues, and especially by using this medium to do it. And if you're not attracting a level of abuse you're probably not doing it right. More power to Rick's arm.
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  7647. I want to say that an hour forty five probably didn't scratch either the surface or Rick Beato's itch to spend a week, month or year interviewing whom I've always considered a musical genius as well as a musical icon for all the right reasons, his total dedication to his chosen and what has to be imho God given craft. For only a special person such as Pat could possibly touch as many lives as he has in such a positive way. He is truly one of the few musicians that I feel has touched my life, my soul, well beyond what music may have ordinarily done to me. I've read/seen a number of interviews/conversations with Pat over the decades and he has always seemed forthright and honest. I've had the pleasure of witnessing him live since the American Garage Tour here@Avery Fisher Hall in December '78 after being introduced to the brilliance that was the PMG at the beginning of '78 through the best free form radio station ever to exist, NYC"s WNEW-FM. And this clearly was my favorite interview of his ever. His love for the "music" is undeniable as is for those that created the music he both listened to and respected as well as for their makers shone thru his radiant smile. The same for his colleagues past and present. His selflessness is the ultimate respect to who he is at the core and what he has and does believe in. His humbleness flies in the face of the patting themselves on the back as too many have done, only to forget why they did it in the 1st place. That will never happen to Pat, one of the greatest but we will never hear that come out of his mouth. I smiled a lot, choked up a bit at other points but he clearly loved Jaco and Lyle and his talking about them as both friends and musicians was very touching indeed. This interview should go into the Smithsonian as an example of how to have a conversation with a musician' s musician. I'm not a musician but I fully understood the principles that he spoke about that makes him the human being making music that he is. Bravo and cheers, this is an instant best of 2021.
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  7846. Thank you for this Rick. Like you, I am rarely star-struck. However, the two celebrity passings that had the most profound impact on me were John Lennon (like you, my memories of that day and the following weeks are still painfully vivid). Second, as a saxophonist, losing my idol, Mike Brecker was deeply grievous. (By the way, if you ever want to feel humble as a saxophonist, choose a virtuoso like Brecker as your standard.) Lennon’s death was painful because it was senseless (especially since he was once again making great music) and Brecker’s death was tragic because, like so many great saxophone virtuoso’s he had so much more to give. He was a humble soul and a truly beautiful spirit. Like you, I find solace (even to this day) in listening to Brecker’s work. For me listening to “Sea Glass” on his eponymous first solo album captures the profound loss of his genius. “Original Rays,” “ Itsbynne Reel” and his interpretation of “My One and Only Love” are shining testimonies to his genius, while his solo on Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy” shows that Brecker understood musical context and didn’t always have to hit you over the head with his technical proficiency to make a profound musical statement. I am thankful for people like you who share their Brecker encounters because they give us a glimpse into his gentle humanity and keep his memory alive. I am a sax guy, but I love your videos for the way you break down the music theory of great songs with enthusiasm and for the way you bring the humanity out of these complex pieces of art. May we all be so fortunate to leave behind such a legacy. All the best!
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  7947. Great lessons and very relatable. I have been drumming since I was 9 (1971) and was always was the best player in my surroundings. However, when I auditioned at Indiana University I woke up that morning with a 102+ fever, no voice and my ears completely clogged. (I was perfectly healthy the day before). My dad drove me the audition and the player who was one slot ahead of me was talking to someone else and said, "I took the last six month to do nothing by study for this audition." I was like.."I am not doing THAT!" Not because I was lazy or not motivated but because I played so many styles of music. I was a rock drummer and had already been in a tremendous jazz band and combo in high school. I played with guitar great Fareed Haque in High School and our instructor Mr. Escott was a classically trained bassist who was one of Glen Miller's original bass players. I had also attended Interlochen National Music Camp the year before (1980) and played classical percussion only with players who are now in some of the worlds greatest classical organizations. But I didn't want to play classical for a living. I wanted to play drum set..but had to go through this audition process at Indiana U. Well..it was horrible. I couldn't hear. My balance was off. We tried some ear training but I couldn't match a pitch to save my life because my throat and ears were a mess. So..a couple weeks later..I got my first and only rejection letter I have ever received regarding music. So I needed a college fast and decided to audition to a small liberal arts college in central Illinois that had one of the greatest jazz programs in the nation and had been so for a long time. So I fired up a quick tape..recorded in Fareed Haque's basement..and got into the school of music. BUT...I still had to audition fo the jazz band. This band was intense..on levels that compared to the movie "Whiplash"..that is a WHOLE other story for another day...but bottom line, freshman very, VERY rarely ever made that band and the odds were even less for drummers as once he had his player..they played until the graduated and there was still a Senior there on drums. Most people thought I was wasting my time and almost talked me out of even trying. But I did...I made the band...played four years in the most remarkable big band program I have ever heard. I became the band manager my sophomore year. We toured three out the four years I was there. Twice to the Bahamas and once to Aruba...no cost to the students. We recorded four albums in four years and I got the greatest musical lesson I could have ever got. And it wouldn't have happened if I hadn't got sick...blew my audition at Indiana University and decided to give Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois a shot. (if you don't think the powers of the universe didn't have a hand in me getting sick out of nowhere...you don't have any faith in a higher power). Sorry this was long...but Rick..I so much appreciate your story..your talent and your sharing of your experiences and mostly for the love of music we both share. All the best, Peter
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