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Rick Beato Book 4.0, The – A Creative Approach to Music Theory and Improvisation for Guitar and Other Instruments
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Who is Rick Beato?
Richard John Beato (born April 24, 1962), most known as Rick Beato, is an American YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and educator. Since the early 1980s, he has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer; he has also lectured on music at universities.
Beato owns and operates Black Dog Sound Studios in Stone Mountain, Georgia. He has produced for and worked in the studio with bands such as Needtobreathe, Parmalee, and Shinedown. On his YouTube channel, he covers different aspects of rock, jazz, blues, electronic, rap, and pop, and he conducts interviews with musicians and producers.
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Beato’s YouTube channel, Everything Music, launched in 2015, has accumulated over four and a half million subscribers. His videos, which cover a range of music-related topics, have garnered a substantial following, including close to a million followers on Instagram.
Despite his initial inexperience with video production and uncertainty about the channel’s potential (“nobody’s going to watch an old guy with white hair on YouTube”), Beato’s extensive background in audio engineering contributed to the development of educational content aimed at a broad audience.
His experience as a music professor instilled in him a passion for teaching, and he has said, “I’ve been very lucky to have a great music education. I wanted to pass it along to other people that aren’t as fortunate as I was”.
In the early days of his channel, Beato focused on creating videos that offered insights in how to play instruments, music theory, production techniques, and song analysis.
His content ranged from detailed explanations of musical concepts to breakdowns of popular songs. Despite a modest start, his videos began to attract attention due to their educational value and Beato’s engaging presentation style.
Everything Music gained significant attention in 2016 after a video featuring his son demonstrating perfect pitch went viral, quickly amassing over three million views and helping to establish Beato’s social media presence.
Following the success of his early videos, Beato expanded his channel’s content to include more comprehensive music topics, such as the series “What Makes This Song Great?”, where he analyzes popular songs to explain their musical structures and compositional techniques. He also conducts interviews with musicians, producers, and other music industry professionals.
Challenges Beato has faced with YouTube include maintaining copyright issues while reviewing music. Several of his videos, including ones with Radiohead and Fleetwood Mac, were issued take-down notices due to copyright claims. In July 2020, he testified about his Youtube experiences before a United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, which was reviewing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and considering limitations and exceptions such as fair use.
Rick Beato on YouTube
