#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music
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The following is a conversation with Rick Beato, legendary music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi instrument musician playing guitar, bass, cello, and piano. Rick, with his incredible YouTube channel, celebrates great musicians and musical ideas and helps millions of people, including me, fall in love with great music all over again. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description or at lexfreedman.com/sponsors. It is in fact the best way to support this podcast. We got Uplift desk for my favorite office desk, BetterHelp for me
Well, the first solo that I learned was Hey Joe. It was actually a good beginner song, you know, when I first started playing the guitar, because it has pretty simple chords. Right? So it's like e c g d a. Mhmm. And I learned the solo, and I figured out this, like, see, it's this pentatonic scale, e minor pentatonic scale. Didn't know that's what it was called, but I learned this thing, and it's like, woah. He's just in this one shape here. Now there was no you couldn't go look anything up. You just, if you could figure out the notes, you noticed that there was a little pattern to it. And then
Hashtag parenting. That's amazing.
I when I when I look back on it now, my mom's been gone for ten years now. When I look back on it, it's like, my god. My parents
were so cool. We should mention that Hey Joe and Hendrix in general is kinda known for the rhythm not being simple rhythm, just the chords that you mentioned. Right. It's what you do with those chords. It's almost improvisation in the rhythm side.
He did all those really cool chord fragments, riffs, and things like that that's just part of his that's the Hendrix style.
What do you think? I mean, many people put Hendrix as the greatest guitarist of all time. What do you think is part of that? You know, I I make lists. You do. If you somehow don't know who Rick Beato is, go on YouTube right now and watch your excellent interviews with musicians, watch your breakdown analysis of different songs, and watch your top 20 lists where you're very opinionated, sometimes very openly critical about certain kinds of song. It's fun. Opinions are fun.
I know. But they do change, Lex, from day to day. You know? Like,
I Exactly.
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