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W tutorial, it helped me a lot with writing my melodies 😭💜

What’s the name of the program? Good shit btw sounds fire 🔥

i immediately subscribe as soon as i hear that lead

Can we get your ableton skin?:D

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Hi. I see your drum kit in your folders. Will you drop it anytime? bro i am new to production and i watched this vid for like ten times. I really like your music

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What DAW is it? Cause i dont recognize it. Dope beat tho

dope, how long have you been playing guitar?

Ur page is fire bro

just wondering for your chords did you use barre or open ? or if that even matters

That sine wave is beautiful

As a 72 yr old boomer myself, I can see both sides. I enjoy certain types of music for both listening and playing, but most importantly I do it for myself. I am impressed with your presentation and am now a subscriber, as I have been watching Rick for many years. Best of luck with your music and presentations. It will be fun to see your progression so stay in touch. This is a great video.

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1:37 how do you have all the roots notes in "shadow"? did you just copy and deactivate the notes from the melody?

For someone who didn't spend 60+ years listening to classic rock, and 50+ years learning how to make classic rock, like Rick Beato and, well, me, you did pretty well! Probably about as well as I could when I was 20, which what I'm guessing you are. I un-subbed from Mr Beato, not because I don't think he's super talented and knowledgeable (he is), but I just got tired of his shtick. I got tired of him patting himself on the back for knowing "all the chords" and when a chord doesn't fit in the key, then it must be a "borrowed chord." 🙄 In fact I'm tired of music being a defacto collection of chord changes.I much prefer thinking in terms of melody, harmony, counterpoint, and not a bunch of f-ing chords in predictable patterns, Anyway, you know who didn't have multi-track recording? Les F-ing Paul until he pretty much invented it in the 50s. The F-ing Beatles recorded Sgt. Pepper's on 4-track machines (yes, 2 of them sync'd up). And they pretty much invented reverse tape and flanging, and a dozen odd other techniques. I personally don't like real amps or amp sims all that much. I listen to my guitar usually through my pedals and a cheap audio interface. Yeah, I used to have an awesome amp, and have played through most of the great amps at one time or another, but I don't GAF about amps or sims because I still have most of my hearing, and I have taste, and a knowledge of how to make sounds. I'd rather be inventive like the people we now try to reduce to a bunch of samples or plugins. I don't spend money on any of that beyond Logic Pro. I have more free plugins than I'll ever bother to use, and a pretty respectable collection of boutique and cheapo pedals. So, I'm rambling, which is what old people do. 🤣I'll stop. Oh, and I don't care what Wikipedia says; people born after 1960 are X-ers. ☮ out! 👽👍

I've watched some of his vids and all I saw was an old has been trying to stay relevant. As with all of these old-timers in the music industry, it's time to retire Grandpa you're just making yourself look foolish.

when we boomers were young we respected our elders, now rebelion and selfishness has taken over, no respect. allow us our dignity we will be gone soon enough, you sound like an idiot attacking a harmless old man

FYEEEEEE THANK U S0 MUCH

I understand what Rick is saying about it being too easy. I believe he meant learning from your limitations. My first few recording sessions were done with a Peavey Classic 30, Ibanez Fat Cat distortion, mic'ed up to a 6 channel mixing board straight to a reel-to-reel. No dubs, no splicing, no copy-paste. What you play is what you get. You gotta experiment to find the perfect sound with what you have and then get everyone to hit their take perfectly or start over and play it again. One song could take all day just to get the perfect take. If we had protools back then we could have done the whole album in a day or two instead of weeks

That’s awesome

Wow awesome beat, make me wanna get into RnB.... So smooth🧈🧈🧈🧈

I don't know dude, it sounds pretty good to me. Writing better songs is the big challenge. I spend more time writing songs personally. If you write more songs your production skills get better, you will eventually get bored of the first chords you learn on guitar. I write constantly. Most of it is shit. But if you work on Finishing songs. You will definitely learn a lot along the way. The tools you use don't matter. Finishing songs matters. (BTW I am older than dirt.)

You're proving Rick's point. If you had been a musician in the 70's, 80's or 90's, you would not have had the tools to do a decent recording let alone have access to or survive in a recording studio. The technology has made it way easier and cheaper to produce music. How do you think it was for young musicians back in the day? Owning a Mellotron? Forget it! Those were only available to the happy few with big record deals. Btw. Your kicks are rushing, your breaks are sloppy and your guitars are not in tune.

I get what you are saying about plugins and having access to amps for experimentation. I believe what Rick was trying to get at is that when you don't have access to all that, you have no choice but to be creative with what you have. Sometimes limiting yourself opens you up much more creativity.

a video full of childish excuses

Making Music is TOO easy because we have great teachers like Rick making it easy for us lol. I mean. complaining about NOT paying dues haas nothing to do with generation but with the accessibility. Rick ia great but to be honest, Thats a fruit of labor he created the space us young to make music easier due to his experience e so we have our own problems. (ai) so its all about how its used. Cause the end user is listener.

No disrespect to you, when Rick says that music is too easy to make today, he is correct. When I started, we did not have access to computers with software to create music. If we wanted to record, you had to save up for months just for 3 hours time in a studio. So, when we went into the studio, we had to learn the tracks which we played long before we went into the studio. There were no do-overs, no re-recordings, no re-amping guitars, or Melodyne, Autotune or fixing in the mixing afterwards. I had one guitar, with one amp/cab and a pedal board, and if I wanted a specific sound, I had to work to get it with what I had. There was no Guitar Rig to make you sound good (Go look up how much work it took by boomers to make you sound good with that software). There were no massive VST libraries, no Splice or RUclips or Tabs, and if you wanted to learn a song, you either had a friend teach you it or you spent time learning it from ear. Here's the hard truth for you, go learn to tune your instrument, learn to play the instrument (That solo was awful). Your drumming was out of time, slack and all over the place, and your bass was way over compressed. You are as no where as good as you think you are, and you certainly have nowhere near the knowledge of Rick Beato to be criticizing him, especially when he is trying to help you. You come across as a bit of a know-it-all who has some musically ability, but you are nowhere near as good as you think you are. Furthermore, you are a bedroom musician, and it shows. One day, in years to come, you will come back and cringe at your arrogance and ignorance.

Ricks point is that you don't know what you don't know yet. The way things are going you very well might not learn what you can to be a better song writer composer performer and recording artist because more and more is being done for you...when you hear people say " its easier this way or you don't have to know how it will do it for you" its a sign that people are being taking out of the process. The humanism is disappearing. Today because things are more automated or generated for you in music you loose the opportunity to learn things because it is out of sight out of mind. He's not saying that what your doing is wrong ... he's more upset because how things are being now you will learn less of what made music great. Often times the great music comes from overcoming things that were a hurdle. The was more individuality on the playlists. There was more dynamics. Its becoming too homogenized. Many people have less of an understanding of music because often times it is just background now! His point was that because music was less accessible it was valued more. You spent more time with it... You interacted with it and because of that you paid more attention to it. You read the notes .. You looked at the photos etc in order to connect with the artist.... You just had more time with it so it meant more... Keep making what you make but don't cut out his experience it is invaluable. He often points out these things not because he thinks its necessary in order for it to be good... He point them out because they do make a difference and to not settle because its easier... Strive to make music how you can but never stop seeking for the things that make it better in quality and by all means the journey you take and hurdles you over come to make it are often more important to you as an artist because you can own that. It gives you experience and understanding your journey. Stay engaged with ever aspect. Break a leg kid!

I don't like music, I LOVE IT.... If I DON'T love it, I DON'T listen...

Well, I'm not quite as old as Rick, but I'm pretty old and I am a drum teacher. The thing about kids not practicing is pretty true. But I do have a handful of my students who practice at home and those kids always sound the best obviously. I think one of the main problems is a lot of kids are not being exposed to music the right way largely due to social media. As far as amp modeling, to me this is the absolute best way to record guitars. There's absolutely no need to use an amp in a studio. Modeling technology sounds the best by far. For drums, I do somewhat agree that as soon as you quantize you're using a drum machine, but some songs call for a drum machine, so that's not always bad. As a fellow RUclipsr, this video was a clever way to reach a lot of people through your channel. Also, as a fellow RUclipsr, my advice to you is do not let the success of this video sidetrack you from your real goal of creating music (if that is your real goal). Don't let algorithms dictate your creative flow.

"If you don't have lots of money, you don't deserve to make music." - Rick Beato, paraphrased.

this was hard bro

I agree that Rick Beato's takes are very biased by his history. The means of musical production are in the hands of more people. If music is worse it's due to either it not being promoted, or not being created at all, and it's quite obvious that the music industry promotes fewer artists. In addition, I would like to ad a point I RARELY if ever see: housing prices got too expensive for most musicians decades ago, and therefore the demise of bands rehearsing is because the space is too valuable, outside their budget. Boomers consciously "know" that that is happening, but they act as if it's not the reality. Back in the 60s through to the early 90s housing was quite affordable and musicians sharing rooms in a house were much more common, as were rehearsal spaces etc. If you're doing electronic music, that's not really a problem as you can just do it in your apartment (which many people are struggling to afford to rent recently). Anyways, good video.

I have a love/hate relationship with Rick Beato as well. When he's breaking down a part or going technical, it's useful. The 'kids these days' and 'music these days' bits are dull. Plenty of great music on Bandcamp and Bumblebee Radio if you are willing to 'do the work' and seek it out. You know, like when he was a kid? There has always been shitty pop music in his lifetime but that gets zero attention. I hit subscribe. You're interesting.

ugh the drum recording bit is SUCH gatekeeping from rick. Good music doesn't require all that. full stop.

Well I have to admit enjoy many of Rick Beato's videos, however I enjoyed this video as well. You seem very talented from the videos I checked out. I really liked the slide guitar too. I'm 58 and open to anything new, however it is more challenging to find than it was in the past at least to me. By the way a little off topic I love the music in the game Skyrim.

You have moments where you present good counterarguments to Rick, but in the end you sort of prove his point a little bit by using all of the tools he railed against, then making a very amateur-ish sounding song with it.

Three riders were approaching, and the wind began to howl.

Rick's first point (and it was in line with the context of the video being about the technological history of music) was about how easy the tech makes things now to record music. But his tutorials are pretty much all about music theory. These are two different things., so there's no irony there.

Both you and Rick are on youtube and that's all I need to know about either of you. It's on the internet - so what ? My personal opinion is that you used Rick's name because it's more likely to generate views for your channel - but SO WHAT ? Go downstairs and thrash the $hit out of your guitar/keyboard/drums/bass whatever. You want to hear good music ? Go form a band and make it yourself do it for fun who gives a $hit if nobody else likes it - playing music is supposed to be FUN. People can say whatever they want but bottom line is what's going on in your head and your ears. The real question is why did I waste two minutes commenting on a youtube video...

No need to go hard on people. Everything that happens in your life has been called from you and is here to show the way(s) for you to pave you own path towards advancing you understanding of music. Same goes for everyone. Keep making music and you will find out that what you actually do is reproducing life.

I come from nearly Rick's generation, but still an old git at 50. There is a lot I agree with Rick on - mic'ing amps takes skill, playing instruments takes another skill to do.. I think what Rick forgets is that modern musicians, not just "kids" as he sees them, have to do all the recording, playing, engineering, mixing and mastering. And we havent even talked about promoting the finished product. I think there is something for playing nearly in one take (people used to "punch in" back in the late 60s onwards, if they made a mistake). It adds a small random element which pricks the ear. Rick forgets The Beatles, The Who, etc didnt know music theory. You make a lot of good points.

I think you both have a point. And I actually don't think you are one of the "kids" Rick was talking about. I mean the music you presented here sounds fantastic. You really put the effort in.

"20-something with no perspective says Rick Beato is wrong, news at 11"

You just keep on doing what you do remembering, first and foremost, it's because it gives you pleasure. If anyone else likes it too then it's a bonus. Great video by the way.

Hey first I want to say good job on the video, here for the grind man, but I think there's a lot of twisting of the points rick is trying to make across. For reference, I'm not some old dude making videos with thousands of views. I'm a young musician who gets no views lmao. When rick is saying music is getting too easy, that doesn't mean hard= good. It means that the threshold of knowledge to be able to make just a decent song is way harder. Someone with almost no real knowledge of music can open up their DAW and with the right VSTs midi, plugins, and A.I. actually make a full song that's not completely bad. Even just 10-20 years ago, that just wasn't happening. The connection rick is trying to make is that 1. the music industry is bloated with so much mediocre music because too many people have the access to just make a song at a click of a button. 2. Most of the people making music don't have an incentive to become more knowledgeable because the problem is solved for them. If you're relying on technology to make music, then your limitations only cap to about the same level where the technology is. If you understand the knowledge behind it, the only limitations you have are set by yourself. Innovations propers due to people experimenting with the knowledge they built up. Music as a whole will lose that quality the more reliant on ease of access it becomes. Again, rick isn't saying "complex" chords = better music. Mostly because I'm sure rick knows that chords are equal. There are no "complex" chords, it's all about context, but there are cliche progressions, but no chords are "simple" or "complex". It comes down to a knowledge thing. The keyword is to what you said, "learn some guitar on a basic level". With a midi chord pack, even that "basic" level of learning becomes useless. I think the amp take highlights a lot of the issues people have with the rick video. You're consuming his take as if he's saying it's bad that you use amp plugins. Rick isn't giving his opinion on whether emulated amps are bad, he's giving he's using it to showcase the difference in access that people have now. When he says it doesn't allow for creativity, I assume he means from "limitation drives innovation" standpoint. As point to the fact, you'd never have all of those amps without the plugin, if you had money to get just one amp, you'd have to become creative in order to take it the full mileage and get different sounds out of it. In the same way how when you were a little boy, if you didn't have expensive toys, you can take a stick and turn it into a sword and get a lot of mileage out of it. I think there's a point on both sides in the since there's things creatively technology can let you do that's never possible in the real world. Rick isn't telling you to go out and buy a whole bunch of vinyls and saying it's bad if you don't, he's more or less just giving what he thinks is a consequence of having access to Spotify. The biggest thing I think people need to be careful of is understanding the difference between saying directly "This is bad" and saying "I think the cause and effect for this action is this consequence". I can see how it can be confusing, but If I told you I feel like because music is accessible, it's way harder to make money from music, that doesn't mean I think accessibility for music is bad, but I think the consequence of the accessibility might make fact jobs might be harder to find. The same thing with the drums argument. Rick isn't making a harder = better argument, he's just stating the fact of it being harder to record and you're interpreting him as meaning that it's better. Overall, I think the takes on both this and the Fantano video generally miss the point of the video rick made. The overall point of rick's video is that music is really easy to make which doesn't drive incentive for people to make great music, then he goes about showing different ways on how music is easier to make today. He's not making a "these things are bad point", but "things used to be harder", which you can't really argue. An actual rebuttal to rick's video would be one that argues that it's about the same or harder to make music today vs back then. I know my comment is overkill, I feel strong about the topic. Hope you have great success with your channel and music and know this comment isn't an attack.

Music isnt getting worse, radio is lol

Omg people here are so mean wth, your points are 100% valid. Most of what beato said is it’s easy to do music so now its bad, and he’s criticizing people themselves for using tools that exists instead of criticizing the industry for doing that, but that would get us nowhere. It’s more accessible and that’s a good thing sure there’s more shitty music, but there’s also more good music. The problem comes from what the industry promotes and that is not on us, but the greedy part of the music industry. So really rick is saying nothing. Ofc id love to have access to a full studio drum with mics, but i dont. I still want to compose and i wont wait around being older and having more money gotta put some practice in

I think him thinking things are getting too easy is an easy way out. There's so many creative things you can do with the tech that's coming out these days, I mean, not everyone has access to every kind of hardware you want to use