Rick Beato

With over 2 million YouTube subscribers, Rick Beato is a brilliant musician, producer, and educator who is consistently creating the finest musical content there is to be found on the interwebs. Greg and Rick rap about Rick's own professional musical journey before YouTube, his time as a bassist and producer, the importance of improvisation, and how to find inspiration in general, all amongst other glorious and insightful tangents. Can you dig that?

Chapters

• 1:54 Rick’s early vision for his career as a musician; from the guitarist and musician to producer and YouTube content creator.
• 7:03 The vibrant jazz community of Rochester, NY, and growing up under the umbrella of a jazz-obsessed father
• 17:02 Mixing, engineering, and producing - Rick’s other love
• 20:10 Rick’s guitar collection, the beauty of a Les Paul, and a few Fender-related production tricks
• 26:43 The hidden (no-so?) secret of adjusting the guitar’s volume knob when playing to achieve a myriad of TONE
• 29:26 The internet and the accessibility of knowledge - is it a gift or a curse?
• 50:39 The “studio” album vs the “live” album - when bands used to reveal an entirely different creative persona