The Eagles would probably already have blocked him for using standard tuning: EAdGbE = Eagles without the "L". Of course, by extension, "L" is simply an octave above "E", so it could also be EAdGbL. That would be a good name for a hybrid band with the dOO bEES!
The only thing Rick should have done differently at the onset of his musical career would have been to figure out time travel so he could fast forward a few decades and learn from his own YT channel In all seriousness, thanks for everything Rick!! It is never lost on me that you do all this for free. Love from Oklahoma
All the Marshall stacks & expensive guitars behind Rick makes you think he must be independently wealthy to be able to do these excellent videos for free.
Great lesson by a great teacher👌🏻 1- ( 0:39 ) Spread Triads alternating Major And Minor 2- ( 4:31 ) Hybrid Picking 3- ( 7:20) Going from Sweet Picking to Alternate Picking
At 5 yrs old, my first guitar teacher was my father. At 15 yrs onward, my teachers were band mates and recordings. Now my teacher is Rick Beato. I've thanked all my beloved teachers many times but this is a special thank you to Rick for volunteering to be that guy.
I don’t even play an instrument but I watch every video of yours because you make sense of music where before music was a complete mystery to me. I can see why you have such a huge and growing fan base.
Too true with the sweep picking criticisms. When you hear somebody start sweeping, you usually immediately think, "Ok, this is now a sweep picking section" rather than it just being, like, *a* sweep just for flavor.
Agreed. Bernth (great youtuber guitarist) talks about how WHATEVER right hand picking technique you are using, you should be able to smoothly and comfortably transition from one to another. It's not good practice to have to think "okay now I set my wrist this way for sweeps", this is likely the reason why certain solo sections sound like an example of a technique rather than an interesting musical phrase with many different techniques being used.
My first thought exactly I’ve been playing along time and have no idea what he’s talking about lmao ... I wanna buy the book but not sure I’m smart enough to get something from it
Ive only been playing for a year and i understood everything. You gotta learn your theory first. People just learn songs n thats cool but that does nothing for you as far as understanding what u are playing and why it sounds good. Im not super good and i dont know many songs but my theory knowledge has come a long way in just a year.
Yesterday I watched Wolfgang Van Halen on Howard Stern. He said Ed is the world's worst guitar teacher. "Dad, teach me to play guitar." "Okay, just do this." *Proceeds to be Edward Van Halen*
What would their all-star supergroup be called? Swollen Jones & the Bucket Brigade? Deep Vein Thrombosymphony? Horq? I like “Horq”. Let’s petition to make it happen.
Rick Beato's channel is like a goldmine of inspiration for people who have seriously studied music in the past but maybe stopped/took a break. It's like once you know foundational stuff (reading/arranging/mixing/playing music) his videos are outrageously inspiring. Thanks Rick!
Amazing Rick, as a 15 year old, to me you are a true inspiration and to my generation and we are fortunate to have you 🤘 A suggestion for a 'what makes this song great' Golden Country by Reo Speedwagon
Rick, you really are a remarkably talented guy. I’m not even a guitar player, but I watched this whole video. I usually find that I learn more from videos, but especially yours because you convey your knowledge with such enthusiasm. If I ever learn how to play the guitar it’s because of Rick Beato. Keep up the great work, brother!
Been playing for 30 years and because I self-taught, none of this is in my repertoire. Have basic music theory through doing grade 5 piano up to age 13 but never got into anything more in depth. Happy to remain a mediocre yet competent rhythm guitarist who admires those with far greater technique than me! Let them lead, I'll hold it together :) Rick's videos are great to watch and shake my head in admiration at. I suppose that makes me a lazy musician but life gets in the way...
I love these sorts of videos, I always pick up my guitar and write something new- it feels like cheating to have Rick here on my phone giving me all this wisdom, I don’t read music but just the way he teaches is amazing- everybody can get something out of it- as soon as I can I’m buying the beato book
Your channel has to be one of the most valuable on the Internet. It seems like the production and content always gives me useful information and it's entertaining.
My 8 month old knows only COVID world. She hasn’t seen many people but your videos are the only thing I let her watch on a screen. You’ve become known around the house as Uncle Rick and she’s MESMERIZED by the music. THANK YOU
Been playing guitar 30 years and always have played by ear, same with piano. These lessons are really helpful and are opening my and eyes and ears to new things. You're the man Rick!
As someone who has played guitar for over 13 years, these lessons still help. No matter how long you've been playing, no matter how good you are, you can always learn more. Cheers!
Hybrid picking is so hard for me because I draw and my hand is used to using the first three fingers to do everything in sync. I can finger pick okay, but once I hold a pick, my middle finger naturally tries to cushion my index finger, making it impossible to get them out of sync.
As Beck, Gilmour, and Buckingham are my main influences as a player, I have not used a pick in over 20 years. As soon as I dropped the pick my playing improved exponentially once I got my right hand technique down.
Great exercises in F and Fm - will keep doing these to pick up speed. So musical, as are the the triads developed out of Bm. Heck, this is good stuff, thank you Rick.
What a great video Rick, thanks again for all you do for us!! Ive been playing the drums for 15+ years now but a year ago i decided to learn the guitar. Ive been studying theory deeply and have come a long way in just a year and ive been considering buying your book since i know it will sky rocket my theory knowledge even further (solely judging from the table of contents). After this video and that lesson on spread triads i was sold. Thats it, i just bought it. Cant wait to dig in!! Got the Book Bundle since i saw there was a sale going on!! What a steal man, i feel blessed!! Thank you so much Rick, you are the man!! 🤘🏻💯🎶👊🏻
Thank you Rick for your love of music and your lust to share music with others. What you are doing is precious. I once had a teacher (for a different instrument) who would only accept what I could afford. I learned from this and am till this day willing to teach people purely for the art/joy not for monetary gain. (It helps that I have a full-time job!!)
Been playing 32 years know my neck, notes, chords, theory, and just learned something new again. Reasons like this I love playing guitar. Your awesome Rick
That initial 5 minutes learnt more than anybody could ever teach me, Rick unleashes the doors to creativity!! Love from India!! I am not a musician but I love my guitar and Rick's teachings!!
I’ve found you can find any scale you want to play with slides, hammer on’s & pull offs you can sweep pick anything you want. First you have to semi master sweep picking. It works for me. Try it,... it’s a gas!!!
Jeez! This makes my head spin and couldn't agree more! When I think about first learning guitar in the 60s on Mel Bay's sheet music, there was an evolution happening with guitar (especially electric) and they hadn't yet figured out tablature notation! Imagine! So this stuff like triad inversion patterns for transitioning and hybrid picking... never even heard of it back then. I'm sure guys like BB King, Chet Atkins, T Bone Walker were all playing it before it had names. So much was by word of mouth and sharing techniques during jam sessions. The knowledge available now is just amazing.
Rick Beato. Single handedly passing the keys to many of rocks and Bach’s secrets for future generations. These videos are causing an awakening and rebirth of sorts for a lot of younger people. I work for the biggest hospital in Northeast Ohio as an electrician. While putting together a material takeoff for a small job I was watching what makes this song great, Vasoline STP. A 22 year old “hip hop head” said “holy crap you know Rick Beato?!” I said duh. He had stumbled into Rick and has been spreading the word. He said because of Rick he’s really becoming a rock n roll fan.......now if I could just grasp the sus, Lydian, triad, 5ths lingo.....
I don't play guitar or any other instrument but for some reason I still thoroughly enjoy Rick's instructional videos. My best guess as to why is they take my mind off of real life b.s for a few minutes. That's a good thing.
My best lesson was from Ritchie Blackmore. I stood right under him, arms length, as he did a show in Portland in '72. I was already progressing as a pentatonic blues style player... thumb wrapped around the neck a la Jimi Hendrix. I saw Ritchie effortlessly switch back and forth from a thumb wrapped position to a behind the neck position (classical) in his amazing solos. I realized there was an entire world of playing I didn't remotely understand. Went home and started over.
Rick, you are the Odysseus/Ulysses of music education: you know music is an eternal journey. There is always more to learn, more to teach, and that music is a lifelong pursuit. Thank you for the Beato Book. I learn and relearn new stuff from every video!!! Keep Rockin’ ✌️
Great lesson with really practical advice. Some years ago, I changed my approach from "one technique to rule them all" to "the best technique for that type of passage." This is something that I concluded by watching virtuoso violinists play. They have a multitude of different techniques, each used to best perform a particular musical or technically demanding passage. I think they got it right. Thanks
Alternating triads - Ennio Morricone's soundtracks for the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns. Steve Howe of Yes used spread triads quite a bit in his guitar melody lines for many Yes compositions.
What a fantastic video! I really appreciate seeing Rick's widespread mastery reflecting on things that would have helped foster his mastery even quicker. It always feels like I'm learning from the best of the best on his channel.
The part @2:38 reminds me of ELO's "Livin' Thing' where Jeff starts at C to Am, a clever drop to A#, drop _again_ to Fm, then *_drop again_* to Em.....really cool stuff.
Thanks Rick. I've been playing seriously for six months and this made sense, particularly the triads, which I've been working on recently. I'd been putting off doing much with hybrid picking but now it's firmly on my list to include in improving my technique. Anyone who doesn't already have the Beato Book, should get it IMHO. Cheers.
Rick my man, I watched this lesson again and appreciated it even more!. You are, without a doubt, the BEST guitar teacher, and informed musician on the web! Hands down.!! and that’s Not even considering the knowledge of the recording gear. Wow! Your children are sooooo lucky. 😀🤗✌️
Thanks Rick, I've been playing guitar/ music for 24 years and I still don't know any of this stuff you teach. I was a learn by ear with no internet self taught guy lol. Love everything your doing and hope to start applying your teachings to my craft.
i don't play guitar (altho i plan to learn someday) but i get great perspectives on theory from you that i didn't get in all my years in music school. and it really helps me hear what the players i love to listen to are doing. even when yt won't let you play some of those songs in your *educational* videos. just another case of "meet the new boss..."
One great guitar player that have mastered hybrid picking is Danny Gatton, the video one RU-vid of him at Gallagher jamming on "What I say" (Ray Charles) is mind blowing.
Another excellent video Rick - I will tell you what your lesson finally helped me crack the code of Metheny’s Unquity Road which is one spread triad (and more I guess) after another. I am 37 years in to the music/guitar game and cannot tell you what a gift and blessing your videos have been to me. Thank You!
I’m primarily a pianist, and learnings chord inversions is one of the first things to learn on the keyboard too - for all the same reasons you’ve given
Brilliant thanks Rick - just tried spread triads and hybrid picking combined for the first time in my morning practiced and I can see this its going to be really useful!
When I was a guitar teacher for forty years, the first thing I taught was how to count all 12 notes of music. Starting with A working our way to G sharp. That was the only theory I forced on them. After that, I taught fingers: one finger/one fret. Using their favorite songs, I sent hundreds on their way to their own musical truth. A great independent way to get thru life economically. Thanks again for all your video's Rick.
Great advice, i've been playing for 15 years and wish I would've started hybrid picking or at least seen it earlier! One thing I would add, is to push yourself out of the comfort zone much more....!! It is amazing how your ability can evolve when you practice anything and everything!!
Great video Rick! I've been playing on more projects the last couple of years and actually have started practicing again. Having no formal music theory training has been a hurdle for me but the way you do your videos not only makes it understandable to someone like me but gives me great practice exercises as well. Thanks!
The spread triad thing is interesting and something I haven't gotten into at all. They sound good. There's a few relatively simple points I wish I'd been taught way back when which I feel would have helped; Nashville numbering system, understanding basic song structures (how many songs are some variation on a I IV V) and why it's that way, relationship between major and minor keys, urged to start singing early, just to name a few.
Great lesson I'd never considered the more involved major - minor arppegio. ,I totally see the logical symmetry, ,,I really truly gain alot from your lessons and really appreciate your sharing with old rums like me,,still fascinated with the magical puzzle
The first two minutes and sixteen seconds of this are already more interesting and informative than 80% of guitar lessons I've had in my life. Well done again sir.
Such a beginner. I’m watching but this is still too advanced. I’m learning how to pick while also learning super basic finger placement. One day soon I hope I can bang these exercises out. Thanks Rick!!
Have watched a lot of your stuff Rick. Have seen several good lessons on other tricks and practice basics, but these three in particular seem like keys to the hidden treasure. Will be given these my attention for a while going forward. Thx!
Thanks for another great video Rick. I have some work to do! By the way, I picked up your book and am amazed at the wealth of knowledge contained within. A great reference tool that I’m finding both very useful and overwhelming. As a self taught player I’m finding that I learned backwards in some regards and your books and videos have helped me to work out my pentatonic rut that I’ve been in for too long.
Great tips Rick. Just for clarification at 8+20, looks like Rick plays an Fm arpeggio ascending, but F Harmonic Minor scale coming down. Sounds really cool, but for those following along the Fm scale coming down should be the b7 (4th fret of the B string) vs what Rick plays here which is the 7th (5th fret of the B string). Both sound really cool.
Here’s how I know I’m making progress, albeit slowly: I actually understood each of those concepts after Rick went through them, and could roughly follow what the fingers of each hand were doing. Back in April, this would have been completely incomprehensible in every aspect. My actual playing is still hot garbage, but I’m starting to be able to think in “stringed instrument”, which feels pretty amazing! (Background was flute and piano 30 years ago, and starting to learn ukelele and drums 3 months ago was like trying to play the flute with my toes.)
Thank you very much for bringing up these musical concepts & ideas. I could not agree more. I have been showing my students similar concepts and techniques over the last few months. I find your lessons very inspirational. I will be showing them exactly what you did today, and sending them the link to this video. Thanks again.
Rick, I'm a homeless busker. I always play your posts. They have inspired me no end. I'm hoping to get your book soon. I'm finding life hard and you, and others (the art of guitar) are keeping m my head above water tbh.😐
