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Mancuso hasn't brought anything new to the table- so he plays with his fingers instead of a pick. He's a virtuoso no doubt, but there's no innovation there.
Indeed: "Educating yourself and becoming a more knowledgeable musician so that great music can make a return" That is if you can be heard through all the noise out there!
Could you do a breakdown of Naked Eye’s Always Something There to Remind Me. I feel like this is nearly a perfect song. It also reminds me of Madonna’s Live to Tell. I would love to hear your take.
Thank you, Rick! I was not familiar with that particular Beethoven piece you mentioned. Listened to it all the way through. You made me feel guilty for not picking up my guitar for the last few months, too. Then I went outside to welcome my new neighbor to the RV park. He is the owner of the music store where I bought the guitar last year. I don't believe in coincidences. Perhaps the Big Guy is trying to tell me something. God bless REAL musicians.
The best demonstration of this for me was coming home from university one day and hearing a CD of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances played by Martha Argarich and Alexandre Rabinovitch. It was completely new to me, and the drama of the music blew me away. Back at school, that was often in my Walkman when I was at the computer lab doing my homework.
It's something I've felt for a long time. Every time I discover a new artist I've never heard before it doesn't matter what era they're from. I never sat down and listened through Dark Side of the Moon until it was the 2010's but I loved it. I think people who are stuck listening to the same things they did before they turned 30 have stagnated. I can't imagine going through life not discovering new music, art, literature, etc.
Sometimes when one's relationship with music changes, they may appear a bit bitter in a sense towards newer audiences. It doesnt neccessarily mean someone's right or wrong. Someone who truly loved music more than the average person will almost always have something to say, because they felt more. Music was not just used as an ''occasional'' thing to them. Now if on the other hand you love music too much, usually it also means you are using it to cope with other aspects of your life you are unhappy with. Having said all that, i guess what iam trying to say is gatekeepers while annoying and obnoxious are just as valid as excited newcomers. Unless they actively try to push people away let them snob. Its only because they didnt have the foresight to know that given enough time, everything becomes jaded. Time is the only absolute thing in the universe. And it affects music too.
100% I’m a music teacher in Tampa no one practices at home I ask every lesson “what did you practice?” Not even my older students except for one she’s 75 and learning to play the drums but she’s a crazy exception haha
Im a 39 uear old and just bought a pair of sticks and a practice pad cause my dream is to learn drums eventually, so i needed to see this reminder that its possible
My Children practice mostly because They get results. if they can see growth they will practice..if they can feel pride in what they do they will p practice and they standout from other children or adults because they can actually play something
@@KToll5784 sure, but then there's King Crimson. Jacob is not even eccentric, zany, or quirky. Just very lightly self-indulgent harmony-wise even though through his social media we know he is talented. But his music is just not it.
Rick, once again you hit the nail squarely on the head. my youngest daughter is 17 and although she does have a few contempory songs in her playlist, most of the songs she listens to are from the 1970's, 80's and 90's. there are even a few from the 1960's. from talking with friends about what their teen children are listening to, it seems that the parents with eclectic music tastes, that listen to their music through speakers so their kids hear it, have children who prefer to listen to old music rather than the charts. I think that speaks volumes about the quality of modern music compared to that of the past.
Yes, indeed. There are many young people posting on 50+ year old videos saying the music is way better than what they hear today. Kids wearing Beatles t-shirts, and what not. The positive flip side is that unlike us, young people have several decades of music at their fingertips. Only recently have I come across some music from before I was alive or old enough to remember that I really love.
Yeah, and a lot of young famous “musicians” are covering older songs nowadays, to get sales, rather than create their own great music, with great lyrics. They’re all reverting back to the old stuff! I wanna tell them to make their own damn music with great lyrics, and stop ruining great classic songs
@@EnvyBlu in a lot of cases it isn't down to the musicians. a lot of labels tell the artists what to make songs about. if they can't, the label gives them a song to record
Why continue to search for those terms on Google when people can search for them on Spotify? To view Google Analytics of those terms as such strong indicators of people's loss of interest in music seems to overlook a growing tendency to search for them on newer, music-specific platforms instead. Personally, I might only search for those genres to read about them, not to listen to them. This sort of thing was probably happening a lot more when device popularity started to take off. That being said, I myself have basically given up bothering to find modern music that I might enjoy, and I've listened to my favorites to death.
The graphs all show the most drastic decrease happening from 2004-2011ish then things decreasing more gradually. Spotify didn’t become widely used until around 2012. You could maybe contribute some of that decrease to iTunes coming onto the scene but google was used by everyone on the internet well before iTunes gained a large enough user base to cause that type of decrease. It’s also telling that just the term “music” drops. For the past 20 years you would still count on google for looking up music lessons, music stores, music videos, etc. While the way the internet has evolved definitely would throw some factors into the mix, I think it does back up Rick’s point pretty well. Just my take, but I think what you see is that as the internet and social media became a part of everyone’s lives, we all got a million and one ways to distract ourselves with more and more addicting dopamine dispensers. Someone who was bored in 1995 might turn to art or music for entertainment and hobbies. Now with smartphones and RUclips and TikTok, the internet is the hobby. Instead of using it to explore new things we now just use it to consume what the algorithms serve up. It takes some effort to hunt for new music or stay up to date on what’s happening with music, even if it’s enjoyable effort. It takes no effort to scroll away on your phone and if you do want to listen to music, just let spotify recommend something to you and it plays in the background without ever really feeling a personal connection to it.
People here absolutely know nothing of what Ricky does right? Most of the data he uses prove his point is from Spotify, yeah I know in this particular video he used google well, maybe you should have watched more. But I guess young people are not into researching, or understanding, or anything at all to be honest. They surely love to pretend they have "informed opinions" about everything without actually having any idea of what they're doing. That is not new, young people always thought they knew everything about life... however, without modern google search and tiktok in my teens I didn't even consider being a genius, I knew I wasn't, I didn't watch 30 second videos telling me the whole truth about life 24/7, now everyone thinks they know quantum mechanics, psychology, music theory and astronomy, among all the rest of knowledge. In like 5 years (usually 11 to 16) you learned every single thing produced in 5 thousand years of history, seems legit.
@@raoniluna4091 My intentions were more along the lines of pointing out that, for people like me who haven't seen many of this guys videos, it might appear that he's saying that these analytics are proportional to people's consumption of music, which seems considerably inaccurate.
3:06 Okay so I can understand lot of this video and don’t want to fall into the “Old people bad” line of thinking, but this is the one section where I think the generational divide explains a lot. Google trends doesn’t cover how many times things related to a topic is searched, it tells you how many times **a specific term** was searched (and I know that because you can literally see under Music is says “search term”). As a Gen Z guy, no one in my generation googles broad keywords like “music”, “art”, or “Video Games” to try and find more of those media categories. Instead, we search for new stuff on the services that provide them, like Spotify or Steam (both of which are showing a steady increase in google trends over time, proving the exact opposite of your point). Even then, as a younger person my experience is definitely not that my generation can’t get into music because it’s “too boring”. It’s the exact opposite really; platforms like Spotify, RUclips, and yes, even TikTok have made it easier than ever for people to find those non-mainstream songs that appeal to you specifically. While I think there’s a lot to be said about how TikTok has changed the priorities of music (IMO generally for the worse), “People aren’t getting into music because it’s boring” just feels like a biased conclusion made by someone who dislikes the current pop scene. TLDR: instead of showing that “kids don’t care about music”, those graphs show a shift in how people use the internet.
I'm 43 and have a 17, 15, and two 12 year olds. Around the 3:25 mark you nailed what I've observed - Music isn't really an interest of my kids. I mean they know of some individual popular songs they encounter out in the wild, and they know the tune of a lot of video games, but they don't really have any focused interest in music like we did being teens in the 90s. We all had our list of bands and entire albums we were constantly listening to, and it was sort of a main topic you used to interface with other people our age. Learning what someone listened to was definitely in the top ten.
No worries, I started late too. You know why? Too much junk on the radio (we're talking nineties). I just needed someting that was different and interesting enough and had a certain intensity and drive that the mediocre palatable stuff didn't have. Enter heavy metal. And now I've been sold for 20 years and counting and not a genre bigot, even :p
41 here. I’m not a father, rather an uncle helping raise my sister’s son. He’s 15 now, and in no way shape or form interested in músic discovery from the past. All he listens to are video game ost’s that he rips from the gameplay. I can’t believe it lol.
@@yalu2 Yeah, I was a genre bigot until l met my wife. There’s certainly stuff that really does it for me but I stopped hating on other genres a long time ago. Consequently, I started discovering new music later because of that too.
After seeing other rebuttal videos, watching this again back and fourth, the issues aren't as black and white and all sides have been making good points! What I really agree with Rick is that the "old man yelling at clouds" arguments and etc are lazy and some of those viewers aren't adding any value to the discussion.
“Progressives” are deeply conservative in their lack of open mindedness, fervent emotions, plus a total lack of critical thinking or allowance for a differing opinion. They are the antithesis of progression, and are absolutely regressive.
But who cares? The majority is contended with being dumbened and their attention span being shorter. That's why the majority doesn't bother to read a thick book or watch a two hour long movie.
Why doesn't it apply to sport, where we see many young people that have done the hard yards and have reached a standard that's incredible. I believe music is the same, the laziness is people not putting in the effort to find them.
u are using google trends incorrectly, you should have used 'topic' instead of 'term' because the term searches are being conducted within streaming apps themselves. no one uses google in this manner anymore because most music has become consolidated on streaming platforms.
Both ways of searching result in the same outcome because nobody googles music anymore. Wheather its the music its self or information about music because like he said "streaming platforms have consolidated all the music"
@@kennethfisher7013 that's funny too. noone googles "music" anymore because why would anyone google music??? we all have our apps to listen to it that we've downloaded specifically to make listening to music easier. that's the whole point of having those apps...?
@@dogsmusicbookstravelscience Googling the word music to find music to listen to is something a non computer user would do. This is like Googling the word Google to open Google. If you want to search for music you go to a music provider and search there. Anyone Googling the word music in 2024 is more likely to be doing a book report on music than seeking something to listen to. I'd recommend asking your grandkids to explain it in terms you will understand if this still doesn't make sense to you.
I think part of the problem is the price of concerts. At risk of saying "Back in my day", I could see 3 or 4 concerts a year as a teenager, and sharing an experience with a singer/band was one of the best ways to make a connection with them. How do you do that today, when concerts are now a luxury you save up for? With that comes the unfortunate consequence that you have to pick and choose who you see, so of course, you're going to see the band you already know. Who can afford to be a casual concertgoer? Today, I'm priced out of anything that I would've taken a chance on in the past. I can't even afford to buy tickets for people I've already made the connection with; how can I afford to make new ones?
That difference in price is partly capitalist profit making (let's not mislabel it 'profiteering') on the part of under-regulated corporations such as Live Nation, and partly because big gigs have become more like theatrical events with huge overheads on staging, staffing and other expenses that smaller gigs today, and even fairly big gigs in the past, don't incur. There are still plenty of mid-level and low-level gigs that are not so expensive when inflation is taken into account.
Very good point as I've had to forgo more than a few concert attendances for crazy high prices & vendor fees. (I love Roger Hodgson of Supertramp, never seen him nor Supertramp though the group was one of my favorite bands while in college in the late 70s but last time he came thru St. Louis you had to cough up $400 if you didn't commit otherwise sizable funds months in advance!)
Look no further than Open Mic nights and free in the park summer concerts. Just great music being performed. Come to Iowa and you will see, hear and experience the opportunities. I recently passed on the Eagles concert that came to our state, at around $600 a ticket for a less than mediocore seat, who needs that? Not me.
hey, you can still see great bands for 20$. I'm not going to 3-4 shows a week like I used to, now I can find the time and will to go to at least one show per month. I chose not to go to arenas where I must sit on my place like a dog
I agree and say this all the time. It's incredible how in some ways it makes my life easier and helps me find the info I need. But at the same time, it has dumbed down society and it's only getting worse. The rise of tech was incredibly exciting. I just don't know how we lost our way so badly as the years went by.
One of the first questions I ask new students is “what kind of music do you listen to?”, and for most kids they say that they don’t listen to music. It’s bizarre to see that, especially since they all have phones and laptops and music is easier than ever to find for free.
I’m 76…..your perspective on the intricacies of all genres of music is intellectual, extremely well researched, and passionately insightful. In other words……you be on top of it…..and that’s why I watch your content and learn for it every time I watch your videos. Music is ageless and so is your insightful deep dive understanding of music. Rock on, Rick.
Well researched?! No it's not, no one searches for "hip hop" on google, they go to spotify or some other app for that. He presumes that the world has stood still since 2004 and google is the only way anyone finds music.
I'm an old guy who recently took up guitar again after 55 years and I am hooked on it. I practice and play every. It's a joy. My concern is that social media has become a cheap substitute for real life experiences. One of the greatest joys in life is the feeling of satisfaction one gets from overcoming a difficult task or experience. I have faith that as time goes by more and more people will recognize that there is more to life than what social media has to offer. Young people are very smart and most will eventually figure this out once they realize social media is using them for the purpose of someone else making money off their precious tiime.
Yep. Emotional intelligence is something you're not necessarily born with. The people That we can both refer to as them, they know that they like swiping up in social media, it feels good. Ever that's obviously a shallow experience, as it's consuming other people's content. The only contribution that they, the viewer have, is a fleeting emotional reaction. Emotional intelligence should but isn't because people are naive, should inform these viewers that they will feel desperate at some point, because their individuality is not properly represented by someone else's creation, especially not by the collection of social media posts fed to them by an algorithm. Speaking as a software engineer, I think I know about algorithms 🙂 I have emotions about algorithms that I have used and I have created 🙂 a bizarre convoluted form of art, but it's also art.
I was always super excited to show my instructor my progress from the previous week's practice. It would be embarrassing to go to a lesson - and not a cheap one either - without having practiced at all. Yikes.
@@jim5148My first guitar teacher made me play Barry Manilow songs (Mandy in particular) until he was satisfied with my feeling for the music. Oy vey. Be careful with who is teaching you. (This is a recovered memory, suppressed for a long time.) I’m better now.
The danger is that, like any addiction, by the time many people realise they are addicted, it has become very difficult to kick the habit. Drugs like heroin and cocaine carry a social stigma which can give enough shame to push people to seek help. Gambling and power are two addictions which are more difficult to identify, and much less stigmatised by society. Social media addiction has become almost a mark of being part of society, and those who disdain its use, are treated as the odd ones out. Another thing is that social media platforms spend billions designing their products to be as addictive as possible, and their wealth and influence means that they can block any policies which might cut into their profits. Music is now disseminated to a great extent by corporations who have NO interest in the music or the artists, therefore they go to great lengths to make the product as forgettable, anodyne and disposable as possible. This means they can replace one artist with another and the audience will hardly notice the difference. The same is true of many areas of 'The Creative Arts'. Many major films are only bankrolled if they are vehicles for franchises, sequels and spinoffs. musicals have become overblown commercial vehicles for merchandising and vast touring circuses.
Rick, Im a recently retired Computer Engineer from a Fortune 20 company . Im 69 years old and forgotten more tech than 90% of the country. I am an avid music lover and have watched your channel from DAY 1. Love your videos even though I do not play an instrument. Our generation grew up with so much amazing music and talent that I am so grateful to of lived during the past 70 years. You are so spot on with this video and you really hit the nail on the head. A good friend of mine told me a long time ago when Facebook first came out that social media would ruin the society. I told him at the time he needed to have an open mind and that I felt society would be just fine. Things always have a way of working out. But what you described is so true, and so sad at the same time. It’s obvious my friend was right because social media has ruined the younger generations and probably many more generations to come. The genie is out of the bottle and I don’t know how we put it back.
I'm a 71 yr old retired Computer Engineer and have actually had some misgivings about a career I used to think was magical. I failed to foresee the Pandora's box end result, and not just in music.
@@criscainemusic I know you’re being cheeky, but a solar storm taking out the entire Internet would result in the deaths of millions of people. Crazy how dependent we are on it.
I think that the only way to settle this debate is to compare songs, 1 to 1. Those that make a case for modern music bring their hard hitters, the same for those that think old music is better. Then compare, analyze, vote, etc.
“What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly.” We used to have to wait for months for new content from our favourite artists, and when it finally came out, we had to go to a store and buy a physical object in order to hear that music. We invested so much more of our time and money, and we appreciated the value of it. With the advent of newer technology, people with a fraction of the talent can make and release music, and listeners can access it for a fraction of the price. Is it any wonder that people don’t care as much as they used to? Technology was supposed to democratize music; instead, it has merely cheapened it.
Wait "months"?!? We had to wait YEARS!!!! And then have the money to afford to buy the album and, hopefully, see them on tour. You can listen to everything now for a pittance versus you could listen to what you could afford to buy or could get as a copied cassette from a friend or snail mail tape trading. Those tapes were GOLD -- GOLD I TELLS YA! Yeah... I'm that old.
Very good post. The easy-come-easy-go principle. Some of the "new" music I discover & collect these days are via digital tech platforms. It's convenient, easy and cheap to do. Well, yippee yay. But it doesn't give me a millionth of the satisfaction I got during my childhood days, delivering newspapers at the cruellest, coldest, darkest hours of the morning on my bicycle, day after day, so I could finally buy that 7-single or album I coveted. I still have those albums. I've taken care of them, and playing them still warms my heart in ways that no streaming platform could ever hope to do. Some day after I've passed someone will throw them in the trash. But for me, those are the memories and experiences that make me feel wealthy. It is wealth in the head, which is far more valuable than wealth in the pocket.
This debate has shallow historical understanding. What about before the advent of industrialised musical distribution and recording technologies? How did people in, say, 14th century Peru value music compared to today? It wasn't available to buy, I suspect.
I was actually getting depressed that I wasn't getting any results from my practice routines. And now, I feel much better knowing that nobody seems to be even thinking of picking up an instrument these days. Thank you sir, this is great motivation for me!!!
As long as you want to learn you will. No idea why force kids to take music lessons if they don't have desire to play. If you don't want to do something even if you are forced you will stop sooner or later. And if they wanted to learn to play they wouldn't need music lessons. Internet is full of music lessons today.
Learning ebbs and flows, at least for me. I’m a mid level beginner guitarist that’s practices about an 1-2 hours a day 5 plus days a week. I’ll have an awesome day playing where it feels like I’m nailing everything. Then the next 3 days I’ll just suck. Then day 4 comes around and bam another great playing day. The key, don’t get discouraged, keep practicing and it will come. We all know the great guitarist on earth today still practice. So if they do and need too, so do I🤘
I dont mean to be mean but this is kinda cope. There are plenty of young people picking up stuff, and kids that can absolutely shred guitars or play drums like beasts.
@@thrpotatoasfgfejfidieiidkr7071 I have no doubt about that but I think those of us older than 40 know how it worked then and if some teen actually made hit song (because of being talented) in 80s people would fight to get that person and song to publish it and person would become famous and everyone would be hearing that song playing everywhere. Even 40+ years ago people "manufactured" stars and bands but real talent or young band that had few good songs were discovered mostly by radio DJs and people who went to underground clubs. You have RUclips today and you could make great song and AI would never discover it ergo nobody would see it. And competition was fierce even before now it's whole world. So what used to be summer hit is now work of art. ANYWAY , DAMN YOU CLOUDS lol.
I'm 70, a first generation Beatles fan having seen them "live" on Ed Sullivan in Feb '64. It dictated a life as a working musician and happy to say, I'm still working, making a better living today than ever before (knock on wood). Rick is a hero and one of my regular "go to" channels on RUclips. This video is the truth, as are ALL of his videos. I've lived the American Dream, being born in S. California '53 so I have perspective not only as a musician but as a Sociology major in College. Our culture is in decline..some would say freefall. Don't believe I've ever chimed in before but this video got me going..;-) Rick, please keep doing what you're doing!
I'm 67 and I love any kind of music, jazz, classical, blues, rock etc. To be a real musician is a lifetime commitment but also to be a good listener is a process that takes a lot of time and passion. I agree with you that a lot of "modern" music has very little quality. I think that the main cause is that in recent times commitment and average attention span has been exponentially reduced and this applies to both musicians and listeners. That is a big problem not only for music but generally speaking for every form of art and human expression. Music has enriched my life and has helped my personal growth. Today we listen to many form of "fast food" music. A commodity engineered to be consumed quickly and after a very short time is destined to fall into oblivion. Real music is timeless and it never gets old, it does not matter when it was composed or recorded. Thank you Rick for the quality of your channel.
I despise that comment. "Haters gonna hate". Opinions are just that. Telling someone not to listen to certain comments is obsurd. We are suppose to ignore everyone and listen to you?
@@bradspringer2372yes exactly - this ain’t the real life, this is social media and if you’re a content creator, the reassurance is shown by numbers - not by negativity
Honestly, if anyone needs ricks videos to be explained to them, and they still doubt his intentions at that point, then they're probably too far gone imo.
For those looking to follow up on the "new to you" suggestions from Rick: 1. Matteo Mancuso (Italian guitarist known for his fingerstyle technique and unique arrangements) 2. Mateus Asato (Brazilian guitarist, known for his melodic and emotive playing style) 3. Mohini Dey (Indian bass guitarist, known for her virtuosic playing and collaborations with renowned musicians) 4. Tosin Abasi (Nigerian-American guitarist, known for his progressive metal band Animals As Leaders and his extended-range guitar playing) 5. Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051 (a collection of six instrumental works, showcasing Baroque music at its finest) 6. Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly, Op. 68 (a famous Italian opera about a tragic love story between a Japanese geisha and an American naval officer) 7. Ludwig van Beethoven - Missa Solemnis, Op. 123 (a monumental mass for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, considered one of Beethoven's greatest works) 8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 (one of Mozart's most famous and emotionally powerful symphonies) 9. Charlie Parker - Ko Ko (a groundbreaking bebop jazz composition by the legendary saxophone player, known for its fast tempo and complex improvisations)
A lot of people are missing a lot of points these days. I’m guessing that social media has destroyed attention spans and critical thinking skills have suffered accordingly.
I would venture a guess that most of those remarks came from people that didn't even really listen to what Rick said. He's an old white guy on the internet, sadly that is enough to almost immediately invalidate his opinions to a lot of younger people.
@@BooksForever It’s ruined the average person’s appreciation, for any art. There are small groups, in every age group, who still try to go back and find where the music they love, actually comes from, was inspired by, or sampled from, if not strait up taken and put rap or new vocal over it, whether they keep the chorus or not, and/or it and the main melody/bass line, are the meat of the song. 😵💫
As I said before... nothing to do with age or generations... I was born on 1988 and I listen music from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and even some bands from the 2000's... Music is now ultra-procesed auto-tune mumbling t*ash... The last decade and a half has been God awfull 💩
Spot on Rick! I'm 62 as well and when I attended the Berklee College of Music in the Summer of 1981, I was encouraged by both staff and fellow students to practice TEN HOURS per day. There is a reason for that...natural talent or not, you will see extreme progress as a musician if you put in the time. You can even be kinda unfocused in your practice if you rock TEN hours per day and still make major progress. "As a musician, should at least put in 8 hours per day of practice...same amount of time as a person who flips burgers. At least do that much." -Steve Morse
@@MetalDeathHead Talent is just having a bit of a head start... Anyone can become good even in composition if they are patient and if they practice, in fact, anyone can become a real master, it can take years though... Writing a good tune is not magic, it's about learning theory, learning some principles and rules and being able to make things work... Hardest part is often writing the lyrics...
@@musicfriendly12 I dont buy that, being able to write a good song doesnt come from practise, you can be the best guitar player in the world and still not be able to write a good memorable catchy song, if you have it then you have it, simple as that, i agree about the lyrics though.
@@MetalDeathHeadand where do you get that assumption from? Obviously some people were able to make masterpieces with no knowledge but that doesn’t mean you can’t do too with a lot of practice. Talent can’t really be scientifically measured, so I have no idea why you are taking such an extreme stance. Practice and knowledge can be measured. At least strive at that.
I'm concerned that everything in life has gone towards short snippets. It started with the news with sound bites but has really accelerated over the past few years with "shorts/tik tok" etc. I'm in my 50s and even I find myself getting caught up in the "Where's my next dopamine hit?" Can't commit to a movie, can barely commit to a TV show. I'm sure others can relate. But then, just occasionally I'll manage to take the time to read a book, listen to an album (as opposed to a Spotify playlist). And when I do, it rewards me with a calm you don't get from 15 second clips. Keep up the good fight Rick. 👍
The human condition is always to take the path of least resistance. Watching the world go by on social media on a smart phone is the very definition of “least resistance”, and that’s why people (all people, not just youngsters) don’t “practice” or learn to play instruments, “it’s too hard”, just like you said Rick. But to be fair, if the internet, smart phones and social media had been invented in the 1950’s, none of the great R+R bands of the 60’s+70’s would have ever gotten together, because all those teenagers would have been watching videos on their phones instead of playing guitars and drums, just like the kids of today.
I don't believe tiktok is the reason why kids supposedly supposedly have become less motivated to pick up an instrument. There always used to be books, comics, video games etc to give kids distraction with something that doesn't take much effort. If anything, it's become dirt cheap and relatively easy to record and release a track/album, the average 19 year old guitarist now has more processing power and instruments in his home studio than any professional music studio in the '60s/'70s.
Maybe the majority are wasting time on their phones, but there's still many that are hard working. Several sports have young people that are as good as anyone from the past. It has never been easier to learn than it is now, can buy a Rick Beato course, if he isn't too busy on social media😂
Great conception. And btw even cable TV wasn't that bad; and if that didn't have that negative of an effect, then that probably means that watching RUclips videos all the way through doesn't either. So it's gotta be TikTok and RUclips Shorts that ppl resort to.
I admire your passion about music and your dedication to the details. I don’t have that expertise in music. What I do enjoy is listening to music of varying types. What I do enjoy is being able to sing along, walking or running to a beat, and having a relationship with the words - good or bad, happy or sad. I am glad I am not always angry about the details and simply enjoy.
Music used to be a social scene. Now social networks are the "scene". There were grunge scenes, punk scenes, metal scenes, and every week we all looked forward to hanging out at the shows and seeing new bands. That's a big reason why music has lost popularity as social networking increased.
I was at a local mall today. I heard a guy say, “dead end” as we both hit the eastern most wall. I replied, “dead mall.” We spent about 40 minutes walking through the mall looking at closed shops… and very niche shops that were open but had zero customers. We reminisced about how the mall was once a mixture of social scenes and how it was the place to be if one had a social life. The highway traffic died down, so we parted ways. I was online using Prodigy and AOL in 1995; the information revolution wasn’t supposed to end up like this. I’m so happy that I am still able to strike up a conversation with a stranger at a mall… for now.
Excellent comment. Indeed, there were all these great music scenes in cities everywhere. It was a big part of the sense of community people had that has disappeared in so many other ways. Meanwhile, rates of depression and anxiety and feelings of isolation are going through the roof. It almost seems like we're forgetting what it means to be human.
I teach public high school and can confirm- all the kids want is to watch short form videos. They would do it all day and night if they could. As a class project, they logged their phone hours over two weeks. After briefly digging into the data, I gave up on any true analysis because I was so depressed. 11 hours a day, 15, one girl did 17 hours in day. It is a drug and they are addicts. Of course art and music don't matter to them. Nothing does except the next video. I hope we are at the bottom with phones and social media, and that we can start getting them out of schools and out of kids brains. If we don't, it will not be just our culture that suffers, but our economy, our politics, and our democracy.
@@harrysuber4462 well of course. THAT part is true. All the other things Rick complains about, like how music is too easy to consume and create now and that it’s become completely valueless to society because we use the technology that is given to us instead of doing the hard way, and that music is getting worse now because of it, is absolute bullshit.
All so very true, social media is the worst thing to afflict the human race in decades, maybe even centuries. Rick uses music as the example but in fact it is virtually every worthy pursuit or endeavour that is suffering.
@@harrysuber4462 That is very disturbing. Some of them are spending half to 3/4 of their day looking at the phone. Not communicating, studying, reading, listening to music, or socializing. Since I presume they're living with their parents, there should be limits set on the time spent on the phone: a certain amount of time to be spent on studying and homework, chores, and also on recreation or enjoyable hobbies, besides being a slave to the phone. But the pattern has been set; parental lack of involvement is at least partly to blame.
I have been a private music teacher for 30 years and your stance on this matter can be 100% confirmed by me. I spent a lot of my time being frustrated with this larger part of this new generation that just does not seem to ever get to the point of appreciating what one’s personal effort can turn into, which is the priceless jewel of merit. You can actually do something as you progress along this journey of study and development. And that what you can do is actually larger than the sum of its parts and also contains you. You do not lose ‘you when you invest in the way you express yourself. You become 101% of it. And whether that is about music or arts or whatever, the results are all the same. When I was 10, I could not imagine being able to do something when I was 15 but I practiced for it and it happened. Reaching that was the biggest gift. And much much much more bigger than I could ever imagine. And it had actually hurt to practice, but I just couldn’t give up. I wanted to be able to do this thing so I practiced. Now what I have in return is incomparable in size to the suffering of learning. Now I know that this hurt is turning into something good I want to hurt more in that same fashion. It is a good hurt! And somehow getting through the mental blockade that that brings with it is something that this generation is largely missing. That is such a shame because that thing is at the core of the greatest gift in life; maturing. Taking responsibility for this is your gift to you and it pays itself back 101%.
We are the last generation who lived withOUT mobile phones (or even computers). Our kids are born into this digital environment and their only guidance is an outside/foreign experience, us! Their kids are going to be doomed.
No work, No reward. Being void of a sense of accomplishment is no way to be proud or to live. What's the point in it? Or is it just to be entertained??!!
@@denfranke4464 I get what you’re saying but the truth is that you were the exception to the rule. Every generation has millions of kids taking music lessons and a small fraction actually put in the time and effort to work on it. My uncle sold and repaired used instruments for five decades and it was always the same. He would sell an instrument and end up buying it back within a year or less, cleaning it, then reselling it. Was the entire backbone of his income and there’s nothing different about it today.
Young people now crave the immediate reward of dopamine they get from computer games, and social media. Sitting patiently with a musical instrument, concentrating on learning a piece of music, or a technique just doesn't deliver the upfront hit of dopamine they're after.
Alternative perspective on the declining search trends: The internet now compared to 2004 is much more consolidated and much less exploratory in how people use it, at least in the sense of the websites visited. People tend to stop searching for something broadly on Google when they have a preferred app or website that provides that thing. For example, the search popularity (in the US) for "video" peaked in 2013 and "youtube" peaked in 2014. This is despite the fact that people in the US spend much more time on RUclips and online video now than they did in 2013-2014. Once people know where to go for videos on the internet, they don't need to search anymore.
yeah this sounds so much more reasonable than his logic of using google search trends, that seemed like a very misrepresentative source of data for this to me
@@adamgh0 Oh goodness... you couldn't be more correct. At least, I believe so - I haven't even gotten past the first boss yet. You know, the one that you encounter with all the cores and stuff, after you get past the stage with the electric zapper, and enemies that you have to duck under? Yes, that one.
I live in a fairly artistic area of London (UK), one of my neighbours is part of Rudimental (some of their YT videos have 100+ million views). The good thing I've noticed (especially as it's summer), is the amount of people practicing. There's at least 2 drummers from 2 different apartments who I hear who practice at least 5 times a week on their practice pads. I also hear a violin player plus a trombone player. We've also got a church that plays modern African music with a live band every Sunday morning, so it's really nice to hear them play (I can hear them from my work room window). I know it's not like this everywhere, at all. But it's reassuring to know there's still pockets of areas in the world that are more musical.
@@christopherdean6179 Of course not. Spent my raving teens listening to theore intelligent stuff like Goldie, Ronnie Size, Bukem etc But after knowing my neighbour for a few years I was surprised when he said he was in a band. Even more surprised when I found out it was a band that had millions of views per video (I didn't know who Rudimental was before he mentioned it).
this is more the truth than this video suggests. i think he did this for the likes and views because, where it generates income and a guy has to make a living. But is he really being fair to musicians everywhere in the world who make music? Social media has brought us musicians from small villages to inner cities. That old American model of playing in a school band is not common everywhere.
I am 73 and recently restored my vinyl collection (jazz and rock mostly) as a major source of pleasure. My adult kids and I send clips of music to each other almost daily. I have been so pleased to share some of the things that I learned about thru your channel (e.g. Guthrie Govan). There are days when I think the future is lost, music and so many other things too, but all we can do is to keep learning and share the wisdom.
So much of the music now sounds alike. If I heard a song in the '60s, '70s, and even the '80s, 9 times out of 10 I could identify the artist. Not now. So many of them sound alike. I remember my daughter coming home from high school in the early '90s, all excited that she'd found a new band and loved it. She played the song for me on her Walkman (LOL!) and I said. "Oh yeah. That's Queen, I"ve got several of their records." She said that they were so different that she thought for sure that they had to be new.
@@Ozymandias1 I think all that really means is there will be a split in the music world, between A.I generated slop for the masses, and real musicians who make real music for music lovers. Even if all online platforms become completely overrun with A.I generated crap, there is still the offline world of live music, played by human beings.
It's not supposed to be like it once was though, not unless you're listening to recordings. Music changes over time, it's supposed to do that because it's a reflection of the minds of the times. Green Day's new album called Saviors doesn't sound like Black Flag because it isn't supposed to, it's a third of a century newer.
Grinning from ear to ear here enjoying your rant Rick. Good to see the nicest man on RUclips vent a little! Am simultaneously very sad to listen to the data you present as i know it's true. I'm 51 and relearning the drums after a 30 year break and am discovering the absolute joy of regular practice with its frustrations and moments of noticeable progress. It has changed my life on so many levels even if i never play publicly in the future. It's the process. Despite the demoralising statistics you've presented there's a part of me that will remain quietly optimistic that at some point down the road the masses will rediscover the joys of creating and learning how to play music with a minimum of technological assistance and a maximum of human and physical effort. 'You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.'❤
i'm the same. played in my teens, now back on it for 5 years and was 50 this year, I now understand how to practice and learn rudiments etc. I;m now getting somewhere with my playing. Evning enjoying the practice pad.
i dont know if youve paid attention recenetly but the "nicest man on youtube" has been a ranting dork that spazes out on things he does not like for.. months now!
@@krusher74That's great to hear. As a teenager I never bothered with the rudiments, or even lessons or a practice pad. Bought a kit when I was 15, played along to records and in a few covers bands. Basic rock stuff. I was OK but never great (for obvious reasons!). Gave up because I was stuck at a certain level and life took over. Since taking up the drums again last year ( a basic e-kit and a practice pad) I've already developed more than I ever did as a teenager. Approaching the kit with humility and patience, focusing on good technique and rudiments, and not putting any pressure on myself has made every practice session a pleasure. Aiming for a solid single and double-stroke roll as my goals for now. Not there yet but well on my way. Glad to hear you're enjoying your drums again. 👍👍
From an old episode: Homer: "Hey, how come you never play your guitar anymore?" Bart: "I’ll tell you the truth, Dad. I wasn’t good at it right away, so I quit. I hope you’re not mad." Homer: "Son, come here. Of course I’m not mad. If something’s hard to do, then it’s not worth doing."
From the soapbox derby episode I think... Bart: "Dad, you taught me to win!" Homer: "When did I ever teach you that?" Bart: "Well, I picked it up somewhere." A favourite of mine
My best friend in high school, Joey Lynch, was a gifted musician. He played guitar, piano, trumpet, trombone, and if necessary could fake it on bass and drums. He wrote and arranged music, too. He also had a decent singing voice and was very good at harmonies. How did he do all this? Because he WORKED. He PRACTICED his craft, and he took pride in it. I always admired him. I was even a little envious of him. I never learned to play an instrument. Now I'm 64 and I regret it. Joey passed away several years ago at age 58. I still miss him. I miss his music. Joey was the real deal.
His work ethic, at that age, was inspired by his discovery that he had was gifted--he had talent. Of course it takes tons of hard work and practice, But nothing inspires that like finding out you have the ear, the dexterity, the memory, the mind, the passion...the talent.
He also had a massive amount of talent. I could play most of the brass and most percussion. I learned because my main instrument was Tuba and I had a lot of extra time. I just never had the hands for strings or piano. I had good theory and got accepted to Berkeley in Boston but couldn't afford it. I didn't have massive talent but had a good amount, a good ear and solid arranging. I wish I had guitar or piano chops. I let my tech slip though. Now I need to learn to use this new stuff and make some songs happen. Joey a good guy to hang with? Bet he was.
Good friend of mine in college, during the eighties, was a natural. Coming from a family of classical musicians, he was a gifted piano player and would decipher bass and drum parts so that I and our less talented musician friends could play with him. A few years later he would be playing at lounge bars and jazz clubs during his spare time. Today he is a banker in Luxembourg and we frequently share Rick Beato's videos, as we both love watching them.
I was listening to the the Third Brandenburg during a work out. A younger guy comes over and asks what I am listening to. I said the Brandenburg. He looked puzzled Bach - classical music. I filled in the gap for him. His face wrinkled up. I look up at him and said - I have some classical that will get your attention - he just laughed. I pulled up the the 9th symphony (Yes - That ninth) - put on the second movement - gave him the ear buds and hit play. He froze in place - his eyes went unfocused. He didn't move for about 2 minutes. He tried to hand my buds back. I said - try this. I put on vivaldi's Winter - he froze again. He handed me the buds back and walked away. A while later he walked over with his phone in hand - What was that you played? Beethoven's ninth symphony - listen to all 4 movements, Vivaldi's Four Seasons - winter. There's 500 years of great music to try. Every time I see him now he asks for more recommendations. The kids know nothing about music but bless their souls when they actually listen - they are mesmerized.
I wonder how much of those "okay boomer" comments are from those who know less about current music than Rick does. Those people would be eminently ignorable, except that any civilization that ignores its decline is doomed.
Rick, you nailed it. You are a blessing for this 74 year old former arteest who grew up into a creative director. I have learned more about music from your videos than even my extensive buying spree into every form of music. Keep trucking, Dude.
they watched a 10 second clip from someone else is why.. there was ppl bashing rick when he went off about video games how he ignored the music when playing them... .. which i also found odd.. Game music is really awesome. how could rick not notice that sort of thing.. he's still not embraced what game music is yet.. i literally am a video game composer too lolol. I still love rick don't get me wrong. he's cool
I've gone through depression through the best part of my 40s and while I wouldn't attribute it only to social media, truth is during that time, I cut myself off from the things I used to love and live for before that. I got better since, therapy and all, but even more recently, I've started to examine my media consumption and started to make changes. More films, less shows, less social media. More reading, and a return to writing, my main passion. More listening to music as in really doing just that, listening to a new album, or rediscovering my collection... And I've even picked up the bass again and dedicate a minimum of 1 hour to practicing every day... Why am I saying all this? Well, turns out I've never felt healthier mentally. I feel like I put my brain under a lamp and thawed it. So my point is, yeah, listen to Rick's wise words, get off the social media and come back to life again, folks. Your mental health will thank you.
Amen. I’ve been struggling with low mood, and generally feeling ‘flat’. I was only listening to music on RUclips, and not my extensive CD or vinyl collection, and I certainly wasn’t making music anymore (but I think the loss of a dear friend a few years ago who encouraged me to make music didn’t help). By chance I saw a poster offering the opportunity for me to join a male choir, which was being started from scratch. After 12 rehearsals we performed a concert. It’s been the most joyous thing I’ve been involved in for years. Last night I was singing sea shanties with the guys……..music as therapy, to lift mood, to affirm what it is to be alive - I can’t recommend it enough! Beats programming a computer anyday!
This is a great comment. Who cares what anyone else does or thinks? You can make and love music (or writing or whatever). It’s your life, live it your way.
It is deeper than this. People are more isolated than ever before. Things have moved from listening to the radio at home with family and friends back in the 1920s to playing the new record with family and friends in the 1930-50s to driving around with friends with the radio on in the 1950-70s to today where spotify is a solo event or surfing internet with spotify on in the background alone. People used music as a media to meet and talk such as dance halls to concert trips to just hanging out. Now more people than ever are lonely and isolated. I dont' know if it is the immediate gratification that we have now or the hurry up rat race or depressing outlook of kids nowadays.
The Internet has really enabled us to isolate ourselves. COVID, of course, did not help. But the Internet has introduced me to Patrick Bartley, Snarky Puppy, Lake Street Dive, Monsieur Perine, The 8-bit Big Band, Super Soul Bros., David Marriott Jr., Charles Earland, Manami Matsumae, The Huntertones, The New Radicals, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Mathilde Gardien, the Montreal Video Game Orchestra, and the R&B version of The Crusaders. Plus... Strasbourg-St. Denis. And I've seen these folks live when I could. So it can enable great music to exist in ways that it never could before. RUclips videos are becoming the definitive recordings of things.
to listen to music with others means that you need to find a common denominator of you all's tastes, which is not always successful. if you listen on your own, you can listen to whatever you want. with streaming platforms, musical tastes have become more personal than ever.
There's an even deeper reason beneath the isolation though: our souls. It's unnatural for human beings to avoid one another because we are created to be in community. Why are people wanting to be more isolated then? I believe the answer is because we have our heads filled with materialism, godlessness, and that generates lies and darkness. If you do that you will literally turn into Gollum. Tolkien knew what he was writing.
@@OdaKathe 90's had good music but it also began declining rapidly as we approached 2000. The 90's signaled the rise of self centered, pessimistic, thinking. That was a soul cancer that has now spread into everything. It has all but ruined art, especially music. Singing about ourselves is the most boring subject ever.
I was telling fellow musicians about the Led Zeppelin II story. I empathise completely. I’m trying to get my grandkids interested in what I’ve spent my life to learn. Prediction. They won’t nor neither will anyone. This is the same as the other way I spend my life. Building cars. Making things. These are lost arts. Thank you, dear Rick. I feel a kinship but I don’t know what the answers are. I can only remain to hope - while I enjoy myself continuing to learn and impress those who do not have a clue how to play, ride, build, ski, fix, create, write, invent, repair, improvise, hope, dream…
I never thought computer games would get defeated by social media. I know more people who watch people playing games, rather than playing the games themselves. It's quite odd when you think about it.
I am in my late 30 and i am into retro video games and technology. In the past, i feel like this involved more collecting, restoring and using retro video games and technology. More and more i find myself consuming media *about* retro video games and technology instead of seeking it or using the things i own myself. I feel like we are becoming more passive as a society, and i don't think it's an isolated youth problem as much as it is an *everyone* problem. I don't have any answers but this is just my experience.
Contrary to popular belief that is NOT a new thing. Back then we used to watch other people play, it's just that it was our friends on their televisions. Streaming is just that, but over the internet.
What you said is right on. I am 72 and when I record, I play my instruments all the way through the whole song. I don't cut and paste. I play guitar everyday. I also play keyboards, bass, and mandolin. Sometimes I just sit down and start noodling on the guitar and almost always come up with an idea for a new song. I come up with lyrics in the shower. I compose Rock, Blues, Ballads, Folk, Celtic, Classical, Electronic, Country Rock, and Traditional Chinese music. Thank you for the video Rick.
i am 26 and i can't get one take right, even after 1:30 of repeating the same 36-bar part... on loop record that goes for singing or guitar... i should have practiced more for the last ten years and should practice more now. i really should. after a week of practice though i can frankenstein a take from two okay-ish takes...
@moliver_xxii The best way to get consistent is practicing, yes, but get out of the studio more and go play gigs. Nothing makes you a tighter musician more than playing live. Gigs will force you to build up your chops, and you will have fun and make a little dough on the side.
Old man musician here. A young friend of mine said he chose making music with computer programs because it was the easiest and fastest way to create actual music. He has ALL instruments at his disposal and the computer plays them for him. Learning an instrument is too much effort and time for the instant reward TikTok generation, and it's just ONE instrument. Then you have to find other people to play with. And now he's starting to use AI where he doesn't even have to program anything, he just types in a bunch of words and it pumps out a song in that style. I fear for the future of music as a creative art.
17 year old producer here, I can play keys, drums, bass and guitar all to an extent where I can play live. But I still use plugins for certain instruments like drums because it's so much easier to set up and I literally cannot afford 10 mics needed to mic up a kit Also some genres lean towards much more sample based instrumentation that relies on this Check out some more modern music outside of the mainstream
Well I ‘m an old man Rick, even by your standards (lol) . This is my first ever comment about anything on the Internet, but felt compelled after watching your video. You have addressed an issue that I am acutely aware of both with my offspring and everywhere else. I don’t live in the USA but what you describe seems to be universal. As both an ex musician and record producer I am saddened by the indifference to creative energy unless it comes from algorithmic canned intelligence. Enjoyment and fulfillment comes from endeavor and appreciation of what it takes to make something worthwhile. This is a lesson that most will never understand now, and I feel frustrated that the world has become exclusively focused on what’s in in for them without realising that in order to receive they also must give.
I just came home from a summer piano performance of my son's school. 30 kids, all in varying stages of musical development. Maybe three or four practice when not in a lesson with their teacher. My son, on the other hand, practices four hours a day, every day, all year. Needless to say he played last because he's the best in the bunch. He also teaches. Other parents came up afterwards, eager to know his "secret". There isn't one. It's just work. As the great wide receiver Jerry Rice said, “Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can do what others can't.”
That sums it all up. No secret, just work. and ANYONE "CAN" do it, but most will not. That's why I can fairly confidently say "It's not natural talent...just time put into the craft".
ay maybe give him a day off a week, i know you want him to succeed but my parents were like that and I dont touch anything anymore because i had a breakdown from stress
@@BB-848-VAC You do not break down because of too much work. You break down because you are not satisfied with your results. That is what creates stress. In music and everything else. But sure, it can be nice to rest now and then. Do something else. But also, doing something else can be a bad habit, usually called procrastination. Not doing what you need to do but something else. And procrastination also causes stress. Because, you are not practicing enough to reach any interesting goals.
I have 4 kids. 2 of them are still taking piano lessons. My 16-year-old son finally buckled down and practiced "Fur Elise" by Beethoven when the teacher invited him to play it at her church as part of a concert. He worked and worked at it. The teacher wisely got him to do it. But my wife and I had to really whip him into shape. And the same is true for sports. I can't get my kids to practice at all. I sit for hours working on one song, and I enjoy the discipline of it. My kids see it, and when I play 3-hour shows, they know why. I put in the work. But getting them - intelligent, talented kids - to work hard on ANYTHING is next to impossible. Why? When i'm done work and come home, each kid is sequestered alone with their iPads in a room, doing mindless stuff. I think we should ban all devices from kids until they are 18. They are turning us into idiots.
guitartom wrote: "I think we should ban all devices from kids until they are 18. They are turning us into idiots." Do it. They are your children. Their wellbeing is your prerogative. Set some boundaries, enforce some discipline, be a parent.
@@userer4579But it isn’t just kids. Most adults are equally addicted. Grazing on mindless news sites isn’t that different between grazing on mindless video games and RUclips videos. I find it odd that all these devices aren’t leading to more creativity. I mean, in your pocket you have a multitrack studio, a film editing lab etc and what do most people do? Nothing.
@@userer4579 I did keep my kids off of electronic devices, except for the laptops needed for school. The result: I am listening to my college age son play guitar at this moment and my college age daughter is creating jewelry for her Etsy shop. And now I'm hopping off RUclips to get some yardwork done. Can't be a hypocrite, right?
@Jjj53214 you are dead right about that. The crashed American education system is wrecking/has wrecked millions of young lives, and is wrecking the future in the bargain. The country and the world will definitely suffer because of it.
@@rodmact6548Be careful with terms like “crashed educational system” A big red movement in this country has been deliberately ‘crashing it’ in order to push privatization and vouchers and god. The crash isnt because of teachers or putlic schools.
If it doesn’t produce capital for our overlords it won’t be taught in any serious way or promoted by the media so that there is demand for learning said skills. All that’s left of our society is endlessly expanding the economy so that people can live miserable lives in drab office buildings working towards the final 10 years of their life that they can’t even make the most of because they are too decrepit. Then out of frustration they say “get a real job” to anyone who doesn’t work towards this imaginary expansion and label them as selfish and arrogant.
A justified righteous rant by Rick! I am 78, recently diagnosed with multiple TIAs which interfere with my speaking. We last year in May we moved to a senior retirement community. I have not touched my guitar since we moved, almost a year and half. This video inspired me to get it out and practice the few chords I know and sing again. You know what? I am eager to sing, because research says people with TIAs sing better than they talk, sometimes. Like Hans Niemann said after defeating Magnus Carlsen at chess, "Chess speaks for itself." Like Rick said, "the data speaks for itself." My only regret is that I cannot give two thumbs up to this video.
There's a principle in digital creation, (especially around procedurally generated content) where eventually, oversaturation of ANYTHING turns it into white noise. Music is too easy to create now. Since garageband, autotune, vocaloid etc, everybody can create music. The over-accessibility is a factor too. Movies used to be an event, the whole gang would look forward to going to the cinema as a group, now we stare at our thousand options on Netflix and say "ugh, there's nothing to watch." "Familiarity breeds contempt" and "Absence makes the heart grow fonder". These two old phrases speak of this phenomenon distinctly.
Funnily enough vocaloid music is created by musicians and one of them is Kenshi Yonezu, probably the most popular singer in Japan in the last few years. And while I am not too fond of Vocaloids this piece of news took me by surprise because I know Yonezu as a full fledged singer and composer.
What is the fix? Whar amount of artistic expression from people is the right amount so we get better artistic expression to enjoy? I'm not saying I totally disagree with your comment, but it offers little to none in terms of viewing this new situation and taking a better course that benefits everyone. You're comment is pretty much this much is too much, but do we now limit people from making music and art? Only good artists can make art?
@@ZeroG84 no, it's not about limiting people - it's about people knowing their limits. Nowadays it's: you can be anything but the truth is - you can't. Now with new toys people are being convinced they can be as good at doing something as people who dedicated their life to a given subject. There certainly is going to be more of this stuff - but not necessarily better ones.
@@mitabpraga7487 I mean... aphorisms are merely descriptive, not prescriptive. As for breeding, all you need to do is "f**k around and find out", right? 😉
49 year old music teacher here. I love your videos. Please keep going. Finally we have a musician asking these famous musicians about music. If you want to see a wasted interview opportunity check out Arsenio interviewing Miles. Most of my students do actually practice but they are more distracted and overbooked with activities than they used to be. I think the relationship the public had with music changed with Napster. Once it became not only ok but people’s “right” to download musician”s work without paying anything music became devalued in people’s minds. It has never recovered.
What if we lived in a society in which our living requirements - food, shelter and so on - were provided without the need to spend money? Would musicians in that kind of society be right to demand payment for their services?
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Obviously not, but this is not the case ATM. Since the introduction of royalties the musician's take has been in decline. We're being robed progressively and there's no turn in sight.
@@RobertJukicJRTV Devil's advocate here. First, not _only_ musicians are suffering a devaluation to their work in today's world; emergent technologies continue to displace all sorts of jobs, and that goes for creative jobs, too. Every hosting service from Etsy to RUclips squeezes the creators who stand on its platform. That's the corporate nature. Quality is taking a back-seat in today's mass culture: people want more, not better. Second, abundance/market saturation do not devalue a product, service, or creation qualitatively; these can only reduce the product's visibility by displacement. If anything, an ocean makes every island that much more unique. And finally, property. The "right" of a person to copy (and listen to) music from an online source is only as absurd as the belief that one can own the "rights" to music in the first place. Music, once performed, becomes no longer the possession of the creator. It has already been sold; it becomes an abstraction, a disturbance in the air that a person can no longer control. Tell me, if your guitar playing makes me cry, but that wasn't your intention, did I 'misuse' your product? Before the Pirate Bay, I was stuck listening to the same old scratched-up CDs over and over. After that, my musical exposure increased by two orders of magnitude. As far as I can tell, not a single one of the performers I've listened to since then has been negatively affected by me in any other way than in their own mind. In contrast, I'm now in a better position to choose to support the musicians I truly love without having to make experimental purchases that end up supporting those I might not. And now that music is no longer 'free' (because corporations get to sell it to us in crumbs), performers now also have to deal with media sites who are using their content to gather advertising revenue in exchange for the distribution. Whether you're the one who's singing or listening, there's no free ride. Point is, if you didn't want to make the music to share, you shouldn't have released it in the first place; the successful musician's life is already way, way, disproportionate to that of any other successful artist, so count your stars to not have been born to end up like me-a successful carpenter.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Anything provided or created from other people's work should be paid for, whether that's food and shelter or music and art. If money didn't exist, that payment would likely be some kind of barter system. Nothing is free.
I agree about Napster. Friends would casually talk about how many songs they "ripped'. I'd tell them I always pay for my music because I don't want to steal from the musicians.
I read a lot of comments on 80's videos by people born in the 90's and later, and even they say how much they love 80's music and vibe, and is more positive musically than today's top whatever chart.
I was born in 1999, and I have the same exact opinions that Rick expressed in his last video. What he said is just objectively true, and those that don't agree don't seem to have much knowledge and undesrtanding of music past their favourite ""artist"" with their cult like following today. They are narrow minded and never experienced good music.
If I was given a single song to listen for all my life, I'd choose "Don't stop Believin' " by Journey not the garbage we hear today. And I was born in the 2000's. 80's music just kicks regardless of when you were born.
The 80´s more positive than todays music ? I doubt that very much. Its the same C-G-Am-F cord progression in rock and pop then and now. Most annoying thing in 80´s are the vinyl records. They all sounded absolute crap for starters because of a combination of the mixing fashion ( Thin bass, gated drums, screaming mid range and vocal tracks mixed far away) If you are not U2 or any other mega-band blessed with good sound engineers and a good cutting house, they all sounded crap, well at least 85% did.
@@Funkywallot You left out D Minor, but seriously, Lyrically the vibe was more positive in the 80's and the music videos more colourful and optimistic. Smae is true of the 70's as well. Theres nothing comparable to those artists today. Its all thug life gangsta rap, and cicada trap beats. Where's the diversity that we had in the 80's? Nowhere! Movie Soundtracks? Zero. I was just watching REM LIve, name one artist today that is comparable to REM? No one! Todays music is stagnant
I’m a soon to be 53 year old guy. I just bought a brand new Ibanez Prestige RG guitar, and I’m practicing my little heart out. And I spend no time on Instagram, and have never even been on TikTok. Maybe I’m an alien?
Im from Italy, so I’m talking by my perspective. Luckily in my country I’m noticing more and more students in their teens and even younger ones are starting to practice again and approaching to music like in the past. I’m 53, lately I watched a show in a pub where few bands of the local music school were on stage. Well they performed great and I got so very enthusiastic by watching and listening to them talking about music, future plans ,forming new bands. It reminded of my teenage past and that was great… As Italian guy, I believe we should be grateful to Maneskin, many young Italian people are starting to play and practice rock because of them.
I notice the exact same thing in Portugal. Lost of kids learning, and listening to music with passion. And I see a good portion of youngsters interested in actual music, not just today's mainstream crap. Honestly it looks like interest in music among the younger generations has been growing in the last few years.
Social media has essentially caused the general public to develop attention deficit disorder. Boredom is a crime... Rick, please never stop preaching this message. Your incite on this topic and ability to reach so many people is invaluable.
I started playing piano when I was 9 years old. Switched to guitar at 12. Music-obsessed, I took lessons and played as much as I could. I wanted to be able to keep up with the boys. I went to a music school as a teenager and studied classical guitar and theory. I played jazz trumpet in my school band. I started writing songs and was endlessly jamming with other musicians whenever possible. I graduated high school in 1988. Everyone I knew loved music regardless if they played an instrument. Everyone had a favorite band that they’d go out of their way to see live. This was normal. Long, long story short, after 30 years as multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, I walked away from the music biz in 2015. The enthusiasm, the passion, was dying. Not in me but in general. I got tired of performing to phones. I became disillusioned by apathy. Yesterday I found myself contemplating the unthinkable- selling my trusty vintage Guild acoustic. Music is getting worse because it’s no longer the shared cultural experience it used to be. It’s no longer our society’s glue. When people talk about Taylor Swift, they rarely discuss the music rather the focus is on her and her love life. I still listen to music daily- it’s a huge part of who I am. I know we music nerds still exist and always will but we’re receding in the shadows.
@@austincaruso7596 Huh? I think you’ve posted to the wrong comment. I never said I don’t like new music. I was lamenting societal attitudes towards music, which as a result of social media, has become more about personality than the actual music.
Man I think you nailed it better than anybody else in this comment section when it comes to how music is supposed to connect to us all. Passion drives motivation. And when we lack passion, we lack motivation. which inevitably results in laziness. We are getting too absorbed by social media and not letting people be able to show true expression through art. Because the old saying is "Life imitiates art."
To further elaborate, there’s an overall degradation in the quality of new music, which is the point Beato’s trying to make. This has to do with many different factors though I’d say phones/sosh media top the list. For eg; when George Harrison was an adolescent trying to learn guitar, he’d practice for hours & hours until his fingers bled. That kind of dedication results in quality music. I used to run a music school and teach guitar. Of my stable of students, I had one who actually practiced on his own time and that was only because his mother made him. Playing an instrument is a craft and like any craft, the more hours logged, the better the player. Younger musicians don’t seem to want to log those hours, choosing technology to fix mistakes or compensate for poor playing.
I totally agree wit what you say. You say it well! I particularly agree with the fact, that the love for music has waned extremely significantly. It’s so obvious. Especially for people who really love music!
63, learned to play guitar in my room with nothing but a record player, a junky acoustic and zero support. Seemed unfair at the time but, it taught me how to play by ear ,and really listen intently to decipher the parts. I caught a lot of flack from parents and friends for my determination to get it right. My now 9 yr. Old daughter is now playing any instrument that I hand her and she does not like any sort of over polished or programmed music. She has a Neil Diamond album that she framed, on her wall. I am a very proud dad. At 9 she understands truth from fiction and that the music industry is a messed up place, There is hope Rick.
I'm a private voice and piano teacher, and the students I have that are passionate about their music are the ones into jazz and/or musical theatre. Those kids will put in the work because jazz is cool and challenging (I'm a jazz vocalist, so I may have influenced them a bit) or because theatre just lights them up. I have less than a dozen of those, out of 35-40 students, and most of those are in high school. I'll do whatever I can to support their passion. I am a little younger than you, Rick, and I think it is harder to be a kid now than it was when we were young. There's so much more pressure on them, from so many different angles. The thing I stress with the non-serious musicians I teach is to use music to escape the pressures of life. I can lose myself for an hour or more doing my music, and if they are not going to dedicate their lives to it, at least they can use it as an outlet for expression, even if it's just for themselves. It's tough to pull the phone out of their hands, but I try to offer an alternative.
Social media connects people, some of whom are ANTI-social. They get on social media to argue and criticize, take out their frustrations and anger. Strangers are being brought together hopefully to share common interests which is the case if you belong to a group with a common interest but at other times if you disagree or express an honest opinion about something you're raked across the coals.
True confession - even when I am listening to music I find myself getting anxious or bored about the time the first chorus finishes. I'm skipping songs and listening to the first minutes and then jumping to the next song in the playlist. Social media has destroyed my brain.
I understand how you feel because I am guilty of it too, but on the other hand, our time is precious and in a world where it feels like time is only speeding up and we are flooded with unlimited choices, we must prioritize our time on only that which is worth our attention
Maybe, maybe the songs are just not very good. Try "the moldau" from Smetana. If you can listen to those 12 minutes just fine, your brain is not the issue, your feed is. ;-)
@@sk8ordie548Instead of being an absolute troglodyte about it, how about trying to understand what he's saying. He could be listening to Eleanor Rigby, and still doing it. Social media addiction is a behavioral addiction that is creating brain dopamine circuit mechanisms that include people "scrolling" to get that new fresh hit of dopamine. It becomes an addictive compulsion. There are science papers in recent years that is showing evidence of this.
Hey Rick, I’m a 23 year old man who was introduced to rock and roll by my father, who was born in 1953. When I was young, I generally was more interested in new music that was being played on the radio, but as I became a teenager, I began to really fall in love with the music my father had introduced me to. Despite the fact that I have no training in playing music or understanding music theory, music has played a fundamental role in my life. Through all of the ups and downs, it has always been there for me. I believe that I discovered your channel sometime during my college career. Through the years, I have been amazed by your breakdown of songs and explanations of how the music industry has changed. I think I’ve always understood how music makes me *feel*, but not necessarily how it *works.* All of this is simply to say that your channel is important to people like me. You have given me the words to explain the thoughts that I have about music, and the important role that it plays in the world. I have developed a great respect for the creativity that goes into making music. Keep doing what you do, you are doing a great service to the entire industry and the next generation of artists and listeners.
I spent hours in my room as a little boy and teenager playing various instruments: harmonicas, guitars, mandolins melodicas,whistles and so on. I still do that. It has been such a huge part of my life.
That's why I like to stick with my principles. Never argue with your Dad. He's lived decades ahead of you and he knows what he's talking about. Especially if he knows what he's talking about. Listen to him, don't argue, internalise what he has to say, and reap the rewards or walk away and don't listen, it's up to you. I know what I'm talking about.
As someone who loves music, being able to explore as much music as I want is the greatest thing ever to happen to me in my 50+ years. I can get on RUclips or Spotify or whatever and listen to albums for hours and hours. And I've discovered so much great music, including older music from my generation that I previously missed. Also, as a drummer, I can learn all I want from watching Drumeo or other videos which is something I wish I had when I was 16. So I'm going to at least take this vast library of musical knowledge literally at my fingertips as a consolation to music as a hobby / profession not being as popular anymore. And perhaps in a generation or two, things will circle back to people wanting to make music again - and with all the knowledge that exists online for how to play and enjoy music, maybe our future musicians will be at the forefront of a renaissance of new music. Maybe we just need to let the digital dust settle for a while and then see who picks up the pieces.
once the generation that doesn't care about music has kids, music will become subversive and cool again, as their kids start Punk bands to piss them off.
I am British, and the same age as you. I first started learning the drums. My father found a good drum teacher. He taught me to play military snare drum and how to read drum music. He told me if I could learn to play one drum, I could sort the rest out myself. I 'had' to practice every week. One time I hadn't practised, he knew immediately. He stopped me, and angrily threw me out, after two minutes. Telling me if it happened again he wouldn't teach me any more. I was terrified. Suffice to say, I practised like mad after that. When I was 19 I taught myself to play piano and guitar. I started playing gigs when I was 14 and have literally played thousands of gigs on all three instruments. I also set up and ran my own commercial recording studio for 20 years. Now I have a private studio and record my own compositions. Some instrumental and song songs. I post them on line and a new album is coming out soon. The ethos that was implanted in my head at a young age was to get as good on your instrument as possible. That idea, seems, for a lot of people, has changed. People need to get back to that idea.
Hmmm... it's interesting to me that instrumental competence is valuable as a commodity for, say, session playing, but it doesn't necessarily mean the musician is gifted as a composer or in other areas for which less- or un-trained performers shine. For example, Mike Garson, Bowie's pianist, showed his jazz-based brilliance in many albums and tours. But he seemed to fail completely to produce much music outside Bowie's orbit, as was the case for many other Bowie musicians who were equally talented as players. Same applies to many, many well-known members of backing bands.
In my mid 40's now. It's amazing to think that the "mediocre" songs on the radio in past decades were so much better than the "hits" today. The 80's and 90's were a golden era of hearing variety and innovation on airwaves. Even in the early 2000's when genres were becoming homogenized, at least what you heard on different stations felt different. These days every radio station but the oldies, feel the same. Trap beat, trap beat, no soul auto tune bubble gum pop, aging irrelevant super star, trap beat. Every tenth song at best feels like it's something special.
@@matthewdennis1739 you absolutely misinterpreted my point. 30 + years ago, great music was pretty easy to find. Not everything on the radio was great. But it was there. Great music was popular. These days finding great music takes lots of work. Spotify was supposed to be one of those tools. They were supposed to be able to find music similar to what you liked. Make suggestions based upon your history. Rather I find their algorithm pushes more of the same corporate crap that I avoid on the radio. Outside of some very trusted friends with more time than me to hunt good music- I find RUclips recommendations serve me more interesting music than other services.
@@mpls1982he doesn’t mean it’s actually mediocre, he means because at the time it was the mainstream chart music he didn’t realise how good it was until you compare it to current mainstream chart music
This is very true. In fact, the same trend is found in education as a whole, not just music. I've been playing guitar for 54 years, and even my ability to teach lessons has become all but non-existent. So, rant-on my friend. The trend has to change at some point... or ???
Great rant, Rick. (And you didn't even kick anyone off your lawn!) Grew up in a musical household in the 70s. Mom was a concert pianist, sister got a degree in flute, brother trumpet and I played clarinet, oboe, and saxophones. We all practiced at the same time in different rooms. It was either the worst sound in the world or the best. What I would do to hear it all now 50 years later. I couldn't imagine showing up for practice not having moved the needle on a piece. And not hitting the scales and long tones each day became obvious. Unfortunately, not practicing an instrument is not the problem--it's the effect of one. Perhaps there will be a shift back to a desire for personal growth through challenge and a desire for human flourishing again.
This man is yelling to other people that they are looking at his clouds the wrong way... Just let people enjoy what ever shape clouds just the way they want. But no. The people are seemingly wrong.
- First of all, more and more people are getting sick of Google search results. Google's been falling behind in search quality and more and more people are taking their "googling" elsewhere. - Second of all, I reckon the vast majority of people don't use search engines to find music to listen to when they have iTunes or Spotify as an alternative. So the decline we're seeing there could just be the removal of the results looking for actual music, leaving behind only the people who have a question about the music. - Third, I don't use Google to learn how to play songs. I use RUclips directly. Google Trends tracks this, but separately from web searches. If you look at RUclips searches for music, the drop is far less dramatic, though still present. Which leads me to - Fourth... you're also kinda right 🤣
One could use the same logic to argue people do not search for terms like 'music' directly. They probably go to a particular song or playlist or mix. As more and more people enter the internet one would expect growing in pretty much everything unless things atomize in those kinds of manners
@@fisk0 googling "social media" more these days makes sense, especially considering how big of a buzzword that is in the news these days. You can't do anything without hearing somebody talking about what some politician or celebrity posted on "social media" or how it's affecting mental health blah blah blah, or what counts as social media. People want to find out what's up with that. Taking raw stats while disregarding nuance and context is not thinking critically. If people want to look up something about music, or listen to music, their search terms are likely to be much more specific and informed nowadays.
Preach it, Rick!!!! I'm 70 years old and agree 1000% with EVERYTHING you just said; also with your last video. Yes, innovative music is still being made in 2024, but the vast amount of today's music is mindless brain filler. Nobody will remember most of what is being played today five years from now, let alone fifty or a hundred years from now. On the other hand, the music I listened to fifty-five to sixty years ago (1964-69) is still being played today and is appreciated for the art form that it remains to this day. There is a massive difference between music then and now. It's the difference between musicians who wrote their own music and played every gig they could to hone their chops and wannabe musicians who don't put in the time (sometimes years) but are good at digital sound manipulation and kid themselves into thinking they are capable of putting out good music.
Rick.... The sky is falling. This has to be your best rant todate. My 17-year-old and I just had this conversation this weekend. The quality of music being produced is like canned meat ( spam ). You can survive on it but do you really want to eat it everyday. The music industry has turned into a fast food market. You can pick a number one you can pick a number two a number 3 for and so on but you can't get a good home cook meal and you can forget about fine dining. The quality that they'll give you is too crappy singers and they call it a combo.
@@dohanddonuts5716 Nah that's different. Sure, her music is "spam", but at this point her music barely even matters, people go see Taylor Swift she and the show are "the main event" the music itself is secondary. She just went to Sweden and people went absolutely crazy for her, she's not even that popular in Nordics yet people went insane for an American megastar. I almost never hear her being played in local pop radios and yet everyone was raving about her.
Thank god I'm 74 and grew up in the time of the rock giants . That music era will live forever. Today's popular music can't compare with the music put out 1960-1979😊
76 saw Zepplin, Black Sabbath,Hendrix ,Cream and so many more live. Still have original vinyl 100s. Have some modern music but it’s not the same it’s been pitch manipulated to be almost perfect even doing this to old rereleases why can’t they leave it alone
How would you know, you've limited yourself to missing insanely talented artists. Expanded your view, you might like some of the music that's been released over the past 4 decades.
I don't dispute your point about interest in music but I would query your assertion about the data. How much music is being streamed on Spotify etc? How many users are there? That might be a more accurate way to see how much music people are listening to, even if it doesn't count the many who don't use those services. But I get your point but it just illustrates the likelihood.
So a big reason why everything is trending down is not because interest is lower (but I think it is). It's because no one searches on google to find artists. I totally agree with you but using google trends isn't a clear marker of enthusiasm of music. People find everything through other avenues like social media these days.
I totally agree. People have specific apps (for example finding how to play songs) or go straight to youtube , spotify or streaming services to listen to music so googling music related topics and google trends is not the best data source to back up his claim.
I can't believe how many other comments I had to sift through to find this. I agree with all of the points Rick made about music, but he's absolutely objectively incorrect using Trends as evidence. To the original commenter's point, nobody Searches on Google for a song, they'll use Spotify's search instead. But, even more so, who specifically is typing literally "Art"? That is a wild way to try and gather metrics for your point.
I can tell you this Rick. I am 61 and truly miss the album format when as kids we put an album on and listened for our favorite tracks. All in a row. Now kids and really - all are spoon fed what we or they want us to hear. When I was 29 I got married and heard Canon in D for the first time as our wedding music performed by a quartet of string players. I was blown away and shamed that I did not know this music. You are more than correct on your assumptions that we are too preoccupied with frivolous garbage. But? RUclips has presented me with greater range of musicianship than I ever thought possible. For that I am thankful.
I don’t think I miss or don’t miss the album format, at 62, what I truly appreciate is the streaming format and independent artists. When the album and recording studio, radio stations where the primary delivery vehicles, they, mostly, had control of what we listened to. Consider the singer Raye - suppressed for years but her recording label and now, as an independent artist is fabulous. The issue with music appreciation now is that younger people have a lot of choices and alternatives….. I think we can all say that you sometimes make bad decisions when you’re young :)
I was watching those early 2000's for 90's Love Songs commercials & I cried. Me: "Where did powerful music like this go? I'm gonna write songs like those to bring it back!"
@@gluonjck63 The thing is… there’s still lots of (even mainstream) music that is designed for the album format. People get excited for Thursday nights when digital releases usually drop, and they can listen to that full album they’ve been awaiting for weeks before bed. I don’t think that’s as dead as people think it is, in fact, I think it’s becoming a little more popular in the past couple years. I’m not sure why Rick is insistent on doing the Spotify Top 10 stuff instead of… you know… reviewing new albums like young music fans do.
I would like to add to this conversation as a 23 year old by saying that I do not think it is a matter of not wanting to put the effort as in laziness. Art has become a commodity and is viewed as a background white noise or an aesthetic. It is something to feel the silence or to virtue signaling to specific subcultures / like minded individuals and not a way to communicate feelings or serve to sociopolitical change. And I don't really blame our generation for this fully. Us younger adults are bombarded with stress and the fear of not even being able to sustain ourselves financially. At the same time, in our education systems the arts as well as non STEM subjects are being presented as useless and people who decided to study them are being warned that they will be unemployed. And in general societal nihilism is at an all time high. This translates perfectly in the declining in music that needs effort to create or understand. Our generations are hopeless, disoriented and struggle to find anything to believe in from love to politics to an extend almost higher than any other generation before us. The easy access, the stress and our society's hopelessness drive younger adults to seek quick fixes like tik tok, and social media to forget what is going on around us. Putting effort to either create something or to understand something needs time and mental energy and we simply have none to spare especially when these things are promoted as useless since they don't generate any kind of income. You are simply going to listen to what is more easily available to you and in your memory so little pop hits from tik tok. Also, I love music and I try to make time for it in my life but sometimes when you study and work, you want some mind numbing to listen to while you do those things or relax. I love Tool but listening to them while I'm trying to study would drive me insane so Taylor Swift is a easier choice. But I do agree that it has reached an extent where the value and quality of popular music is very low and it is okay to sometimes listen to something less complicated. What is truly puzzling to me is that many young people cannot distinguish the difference between the quality of good solid music and the quality of tik tok pop hits. We are bombarded with so much information that it is silly how little musical education people have, which I personally found out these days with the Dave Grohl -Taylor Swift debacle, where many younger adults did not know who he is and in all seriousness they said that he is bitter because he never had that type of fame (one of them while wearing a literal Nirvana T-shirt). It is a multifaceted issue but I really congratulate Rick for genuinely bring up this discussion because it should be seriously addressed in the music community.
@@paxfinstad6787 when I saw it I thought it was some kind of comedy sketch and I laughed... turns out they actually did not know and then it became kind of sad.. especially when people in the comments were agreeing...
Content creators are in fierce competition with each other to get your attention. It's always going to feel like there's something you could be doing instead of practicing your instrument or exercising or whatever. What a crazy world for you to grow up in.
Your generation doesn't have a monopoly on stress or security of your future. That has been every generation, and success is dependent on how you choose to handle the stress and insecurity. If you fail, it isn't because past generations didn't also endure the same, it's because you chose to be a victim.
I don't get the whole google trends thing. With all the streaming services available at this point, why would people still search for music on google? Of course those numbers declined since 2004, I wouldn't expect anything else.
I'm from the Boomer generation and I subscribe to some Music Reaction Channels in which young people are discovering and enthusiastically enjoying some of the great music that I grew up with like Motown, Stax, Muscle Shoals, and a whole bunch of classic rock, jazz, blues, southern rock, R&B and funk. It's really great to see them appreciate Jimi Hendrix, Creedence, Clearwater Revival, The Allman Brothers, Boz Scaggs, Aretha Franklin and others they have never heard or only heard snippets of in movies or commercials. This is one good thing RUclips has done. The only problem is how much they get blocked.
💯! I never thought I'd enjoy watching any reaction channels but seeing younger generations being amazed by music from earlier decades, music that I've loved for so long, is really enjoyable. Blows my mind when someone says they've never heard of Queen, INXS, or Dire Straits (just to name a few)! And then to see them fall in love with those bands, it's fantastic!
As a guitar teacher and principal at a music school in Bavaria, I can say that TikTok and similar platforms are very popular with many of my students. Many of them watch short videos where musicians showcase their guitar skills. Often, they come to me with specific requests, wanting to learn what they saw on TikTok. Depending on the difficulty, I can either teach them the piece directly or they are motivated to practice diligently to master it eventually. However, it should also be noted that in Bavaria, many children and teenagers mainly learn an instrument in musically supportive households. At the same time, there is a large portion of students who only play their instrument during lessons. This has always been the case and is not just a phenomenon of the new media. (Dirk Olbrich)
I wish more people would see this comment, because you're really giving a much needed nuanced take. I've seen numerous comments by frustrated music teachers here about how kids don't take their instrument seriously "because of social media". There have always been kids who were signed up to music lessons by their parents without having any real intrinsic motivation to learn it. This is hardly a modern problem, but it's just very easy to blame social media as some kind of monolithic root of all evil. If someone has intrinsic motivation, these short videos can be a huge source of inspiration on top of the music they're already listening to!
Truth. I took tuba lessons in the 80's, and must admit that many times I sat in the chair dreading the lesson b/c I would soon be exposed as having put in ZERO practice time :-(
@@who-n7e "in Bavaria, many children and teenagers mainly learn an instrument in musically supportive households." This is very true, for any household, anywhere.
I am almost 41 and I started taking piano lessons about 4 months ago. And it's freaking hard. Not just because I am older and learning and improving is way more work. But also because I just don't have the time or energy to play every day. I try to do it but most weeks I can only manage 30-45min three or four times. And it is frustrating and challenging but it also gives me another way to interact with music. This channel is actually a big part of why I started doing it. I wanted to learn more about music theory and thought that actually learning an instrument would help me. Which it kind of doesn't as it isn't really my teachers focus. When I was 35, I started taking vocal lessons because I always loved singing and I've always been really good at it. My teacher (who is an opera singer with a vocal teaching qualification) told me that I could have been an opera singer if I had started earlier. That would have been a miracle given how much I dislike opera and classical music in general. But singing is freaking hard. It it way more frustrating than playing the piano. You learn all those techniques for posture and breathing and diaphram support and where to push and where to relax. But if you are not really in tune with your body, it's almost impossible to keep track of all of it and make it your own. A fellow student back then was a ballerina and she was amazing. My teacher pointed out a mistake and she fixed it instantly. I was so jealous. in the end, it all comes back to the things our parents make us do in our youth and how they package it. I was forced to learn the guitar when I was 7 but all I ever wanted was to play piano - on the 5th floor of our rented flat back when E-Pianos weren't a thing. However: Part of that course was 45 minutes of music theory every week. My guitar teacher used to shake her head telling me that I was the only student in probably 10 years who absolutely hated playing the instrument (I also never practiced) but was so eager to do the theoretical stuff. Both my nephews had to learn an instrument and are still on it. One of them is very talented on the drums but he is literally what you pointed out: He's not really listening to music the way we were so there's no point in saying "How about you learn song XY?" And he seems to have no intrinsic motivation to get good, even if his drum teacher tells him that he is doing great and he could become really good...
Agree 100%. Part of the problem is that we have lost the 'physicalness' of music. What I mean is, there is no vinyl or even CDs to purchase and hold in your hand. (Yes, I know they exist, but virtually no one buys them any more.) When I was younger, you'd buy an album, put it on your turntable (which had its own wonderful physicalness), and lie on your bed ogling the cover art or liner notes or lyrics while the album played. For hours. It was a very sensory event - sight, hearing, feel. Now, people get their music via digital streaming and there is no physicalness to it. It is fleeting and temporary. Albums were permanent. I think that has a lot to do with it.
As someone who grew up with physical media, I agree. However, it should be noted that, when that media first arrived, many people declared it was 'the end of live performances'. They were wrong. I must assume that I'm capable of the same error. Especially considering that every generation tends to sacralize the eras and influences in which they established their identity and profane those that no longer reflect it.
Also most of the moments when we are hearing music is to accompany something, like walking, doing work, workouts, etc. Those moments where music felt like it needed its own moment instead of being a complementary thing to something more important is now a very rare thing. Because it was indeed special. Being able to hear music wasn’t easy, specially in terms of variety - even if you were lucky enough to have a huge collection. Plus, indeed the cover art, etc. so very different from the cheap commodity it has become.
@@Daniel__Nobre While scarcity can add value to things, it isn't the only thing that can do this. Music can act as grounding for our first kiss, the loss of a loved one, a breakup, or, for that matter, any personal milestone. In these cases, it's often simply the backdrop rather than the focus of a moment. I doubt there's ever been an era when it has only been appreciated on its own merits without distraction. The medium and consumption methods change but people are still being impacted by music in the same ways and for the same reasons, and they're still sharing music as a way of connecting with one another. It just looks different. Music has always been the soundtrack to our lives but not everyone prefers revisiting the soundtrack over watching the movie.
@@cosmickidd205 I've been told the same thing. Yet, I'd argue that the Hipster movement was primarily about recovering the comfort and familiarity of making things you could touch and physically share. We ground ourselves in the material world. So, at some point, we find ways to root ourselves there again. That said. I love being able to access all my favorite music from anywhere at any time.
Yeah, however, there were people back then who said THAT music from that time was already part of the decline. And it most definitely was, you have a sentimental attachment to that time frame. Music from the 90s was mostly crap.
25 here, and I have witnessed the same exact trend.. There is nothing this guy needs to apologize for, he shared his opinion, which (in my opinion) is objectively true hahah!
@@MichaelCRushno, it’s better to keep practicing and getting better to limit your bad performances. That way you won’t need the technology. It’s there to help but you shouldn’t depend on it.
We used to go play ball, basketball, football, baseball, be outside until we had to be home if the weather was nice. Young people are attached to their phones as if they may miss something, the internet has done this and I think the attention span is short because they want instant fixes of entertainment. Case in point shorter songs are the trend, TikTok is like a rabbit hole of amusement for many. Oh and music today is pretty shallow in the mainstream anyhow. Your video saying how we used to have to work to get our music, buy the record take it home etc. is true, now you can skip something and on to the next in seconds.
There's no reason to spend time outside today, you can be hit by a car, fall and wound your legs etc, be exposed to strange looks of other people. The internet is less harmful than spending time outside, change my view.
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Mancuso hasn't brought anything new to the table- so he plays with his fingers instead of a pick. He's a virtuoso no doubt, but there's no innovation there.
Indeed: "Educating yourself and becoming a more knowledgeable musician so that great music can make a return" That is if you can be heard through all the noise out there!
Could you do a breakdown of Naked Eye’s Always Something There to Remind Me. I feel like this is nearly a perfect song. It also reminds me of Madonna’s Live to Tell. I would love to hear your take.
Thank you, Rick! I was not familiar with that particular Beethoven piece you mentioned. Listened to it all the way through. You made me feel guilty for not picking up my guitar for the last few months, too. Then I went outside to welcome my new neighbor to the RV park. He is the owner of the music store where I bought the guitar last year. I don't believe in coincidences. Perhaps the Big Guy is trying to tell me something. God bless REAL musicians.
“If it’s new to you, it’s new.” Truer words were never spoken. I’ve argued with music snobs too much about this.
The best demonstration of this for me was coming home from university one day and hearing a CD of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances played by Martha Argarich and Alexandre Rabinovitch. It was completely new to me, and the drama of the music blew me away. Back at school, that was often in my Walkman when I was at the computer lab doing my homework.
It's something I've felt for a long time. Every time I discover a new artist I've never heard before it doesn't matter what era they're from. I never sat down and listened through Dark Side of the Moon until it was the 2010's but I loved it.
I think people who are stuck listening to the same things they did before they turned 30 have stagnated. I can't imagine going through life not discovering new music, art, literature, etc.
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Sometimes when one's relationship with music changes, they may appear a bit bitter in a sense towards newer audiences. It doesnt neccessarily mean someone's right or wrong. Someone who truly loved music more than the average person will almost always have something to say, because they felt more. Music was not just used as an ''occasional'' thing to them. Now if on the other hand you love music too much, usually it also means you are using it to cope with other aspects of your life you are unhappy with.
Having said all that, i guess what iam trying to say is gatekeepers while annoying and obnoxious are just as valid as excited newcomers. Unless they actively try to push people away let them snob. Its only because they didnt have the foresight to know that given enough time, everything becomes jaded.
Time is the only absolute thing in the universe. And it affects music too.
So so true! Argh... Music snobs are so frustrating. Music haters tell you what not to listen to. Music lovers just love music. Period.
I'm really happy for my neighbour's kid. I can hear him practising his drums and keyboard almost every day. I can hear him improving too
Congratulations, you no longer have to sell the house.
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Better than having Jimmie rex wiseman jr or ericaguitarbebe as a neighbour 😂
Give him a compliment if you can.
Nice. The kid has his first fan :)
100% I’m a music teacher in Tampa no one practices at home I ask every lesson “what did you practice?” Not even my older students except for one she’s 75 and learning to play the drums but she’s a crazy exception haha
THERE'S STILL HOPE FOR ME! Oh, a 75 year old learning to play drums? That makes me SO HAPPY!
Im a 39 uear old and just bought a pair of sticks and a practice pad cause my dream is to learn drums eventually, so i needed to see this reminder that its possible
@@dayglodoggy yeah man I’ve taught all ages it’s not about age!
My Children practice mostly because They get results. if they can see growth they will practice..if they can feel pride in what they do they will p practice and they standout from other children or adults because they can actually play something
Techno sorcery is a thing. Welcome to the last of the last days. Jesus is saying in July 2024 "Follow ME"
Rick, you said the magic word: "work". Creativity demands work.
Work also needs creativity. Look at Jacob Collier. A prodigy in all aspects of theory yet his music is just...
@@joesosa41Yeah, Jacob Collier relies way too much on being eccentric and zany and quirky.
@@KToll5784 sure, but then there's King Crimson. Jacob is not even eccentric, zany, or quirky. Just very lightly self-indulgent harmony-wise even though through his social media we know he is talented. But his music is just not it.
You don't say !
Rick, once again you hit the nail squarely on the head.
my youngest daughter is 17 and although she does have a few contempory songs in her playlist, most of the songs she listens to are from the 1970's, 80's and 90's. there are even a few from the 1960's.
from talking with friends about what their teen children are listening to, it seems that the parents with eclectic music tastes, that listen to their music through speakers so their kids hear it, have children who prefer to listen to old music rather than the charts.
I think that speaks volumes about the quality of modern music compared to that of the past.
Yes, indeed. There are many young people posting on 50+ year old videos saying the music is way better than what they hear today. Kids wearing Beatles t-shirts, and what not. The positive flip side is that unlike us, young people have several decades of music at their fingertips. Only recently have I come across some music from before I was alive or old enough to remember that I really love.
Yeah, and a lot of young famous “musicians” are covering older songs nowadays, to get sales, rather than create their own great music, with great lyrics. They’re all reverting back to the old stuff! I wanna tell them to make their own damn music with great lyrics, and stop ruining great classic songs
@@EnvyBlu in a lot of cases it isn't down to the musicians. a lot of labels tell the artists what to make songs about. if they can't, the label gives them a song to record
anecdotal evidence is not evidence
Why continue to search for those terms on Google when people can search for them on Spotify? To view Google Analytics of those terms as such strong indicators of people's loss of interest in music seems to overlook a growing tendency to search for them on newer, music-specific platforms instead. Personally, I might only search for those genres to read about them, not to listen to them. This sort of thing was probably happening a lot more when device popularity started to take off. That being said, I myself have basically given up bothering to find modern music that I might enjoy, and I've listened to my favorites to death.
The graphs all show the most drastic decrease happening from 2004-2011ish then things decreasing more gradually. Spotify didn’t become widely used until around 2012. You could maybe contribute some of that decrease to iTunes coming onto the scene but google was used by everyone on the internet well before iTunes gained a large enough user base to cause that type of decrease. It’s also telling that just the term “music” drops. For the past 20 years you would still count on google for looking up music lessons, music stores, music videos, etc. While the way the internet has evolved definitely would throw some factors into the mix, I think it does back up Rick’s point pretty well. Just my take, but I think what you see is that as the internet and social media became a part of everyone’s lives, we all got a million and one ways to distract ourselves with more and more addicting dopamine dispensers. Someone who was bored in 1995 might turn to art or music for entertainment and hobbies. Now with smartphones and RUclips and TikTok, the internet is the hobby. Instead of using it to explore new things we now just use it to consume what the algorithms serve up. It takes some effort to hunt for new music or stay up to date on what’s happening with music, even if it’s enjoyable effort. It takes no effort to scroll away on your phone and if you do want to listen to music, just let spotify recommend something to you and it plays in the background without ever really feeling a personal connection to it.
Consuming music and having interest in music are not the same thing
You're confused but you've got the spirit
People here absolutely know nothing of what Ricky does right? Most of the data he uses prove his point is from Spotify, yeah I know in this particular video he used google well, maybe you should have watched more. But I guess young people are not into researching, or understanding, or anything at all to be honest. They surely love to pretend they have "informed opinions" about everything without actually having any idea of what they're doing. That is not new, young people always thought they knew everything about life... however, without modern google search and tiktok in my teens I didn't even consider being a genius, I knew I wasn't, I didn't watch 30 second videos telling me the whole truth about life 24/7, now everyone thinks they know quantum mechanics, psychology, music theory and astronomy, among all the rest of knowledge. In like 5 years (usually 11 to 16) you learned every single thing produced in 5 thousand years of history, seems legit.
@@raoniluna4091 My intentions were more along the lines of pointing out that, for people like me who haven't seen many of this guys videos, it might appear that he's saying that these analytics are proportional to people's consumption of music, which seems considerably inaccurate.
3:06 Okay so I can understand lot of this video and don’t want to fall into the “Old people bad” line of thinking, but this is the one section where I think the generational divide explains a lot.
Google trends doesn’t cover how many times things related to a topic is searched, it tells you how many times **a specific term** was searched (and I know that because you can literally see under Music is says “search term”). As a Gen Z guy, no one in my generation googles broad keywords like “music”, “art”, or “Video Games” to try and find more of those media categories. Instead, we search for new stuff on the services that provide them, like Spotify or Steam (both of which are showing a steady increase in google trends over time, proving the exact opposite of your point).
Even then, as a younger person my experience is definitely not that my generation can’t get into music because it’s “too boring”. It’s the exact opposite really; platforms like Spotify, RUclips, and yes, even TikTok have made it easier than ever for people to find those non-mainstream songs that appeal to you specifically. While I think there’s a lot to be said about how TikTok has changed the priorities of music (IMO generally for the worse), “People aren’t getting into music because it’s boring” just feels like a biased conclusion made by someone who dislikes the current pop scene.
TLDR: instead of showing that “kids don’t care about music”, those graphs show a shift in how people use the internet.
I'm 43 and have a 17, 15, and two 12 year olds. Around the 3:25 mark you nailed what I've observed - Music isn't really an interest of my kids. I mean they know of some individual popular songs they encounter out in the wild, and they know the tune of a lot of video games, but they don't really have any focused interest in music like we did being teens in the 90s. We all had our list of bands and entire albums we were constantly listening to, and it was sort of a main topic you used to interface with other people our age. Learning what someone listened to was definitely in the top ten.
No worries, I started late too. You know why? Too much junk on the radio (we're talking nineties). I just needed someting that was different and interesting enough and had a certain intensity and drive that the mediocre palatable stuff didn't have. Enter heavy metal. And now I've been sold for 20 years and counting and not a genre bigot, even :p
Streaming platforms have removed the social aspect of recorded music, in the same way that the demise of transmitted TV has for TV shows.
41 here. I’m not a father, rather an uncle helping raise my sister’s son. He’s 15 now, and in no way shape or form interested in músic discovery from the past. All he listens to are video game ost’s that he rips from the gameplay. I can’t believe it lol.
@@yalu2 Yeah, I was a genre bigot until l met my wife. There’s certainly stuff that really does it for me but I stopped hating on other genres a long time ago. Consequently, I started discovering new music later because of that too.
My daughter practices piano 1 hr everyday. News flash, SHE HAS NO CELLPHONE. she actually enjoys practice, why? she has talent, and no cellphone. 🤔
After seeing other rebuttal videos, watching this again back and fourth, the issues aren't as black and white and all sides have been making good points! What I really agree with Rick is that the "old man yelling at clouds" arguments and etc are lazy and some of those viewers aren't adding any value to the discussion.
This. Well said 🤝
Being triggered by the truth is a very common theme nowadays. It's closely related to snowflake syndrome!
Wrong
@@tallyrc found the gen z test tube baby
“Progressives” are deeply conservative in their lack of open mindedness, fervent emotions, plus a total lack of critical thinking or allowance for a differing opinion. They are the antithesis of progression, and are absolutely regressive.
The reason your recent videos have gained so much attention is because you are, in fact, correct
But who cares? The majority is contended with being dumbened and their attention span being shorter. That's why the majority doesn't bother to read a thick book or watch a two hour long movie.
And he's posting on social media to finish the loop 😅
Why doesn't it apply to sport, where we see many young people that have done the hard yards and have reached a standard that's incredible. I believe music is the same, the laziness is people not putting in the effort to find them.
He is in fact _technically correct_ - the best kind of correct! ( Thank you, Hermes 😁)
I do enjoy these videos. Then I go and practise and practise.
u are using google trends incorrectly, you should have used 'topic' instead of 'term' because the term searches are being conducted within streaming apps themselves. no one uses google in this manner anymore because most music has become consolidated on streaming platforms.
Just used google trends and searched music as a "topic" exactly the same results genius! Wish I could include a screen shot.
@@secondclone60 That's funny. OutOfPrint was too lazy to even look up by "topic" before commenting.
Both ways of searching result in the same outcome because nobody googles music anymore. Wheather its the music its self or information about music because like he said "streaming platforms have consolidated all the music"
@@kennethfisher7013 that's funny too. noone googles "music" anymore because why would anyone google music??? we all have our apps to listen to it that we've downloaded specifically to make listening to music easier. that's the whole point of having those apps...?
@@dogsmusicbookstravelscience Googling the word music to find music to listen to is something a non computer user would do. This is like Googling the word Google to open Google. If you want to search for music you go to a music provider and search there. Anyone Googling the word music in 2024 is more likely to be doing a book report on music than seeking something to listen to. I'd recommend asking your grandkids to explain it in terms you will understand if this still doesn't make sense to you.
I think part of the problem is the price of concerts. At risk of saying "Back in my day", I could see 3 or 4 concerts a year as a teenager, and sharing an experience with a singer/band was one of the best ways to make a connection with them. How do you do that today, when concerts are now a luxury you save up for? With that comes the unfortunate consequence that you have to pick and choose who you see, so of course, you're going to see the band you already know. Who can afford to be a casual concertgoer? Today, I'm priced out of anything that I would've taken a chance on in the past. I can't even afford to buy tickets for people I've already made the connection with; how can I afford to make new ones?
That difference in price is partly capitalist profit making (let's not mislabel it 'profiteering') on the part of under-regulated corporations such as Live Nation, and partly because big gigs have become more like theatrical events with huge overheads on staging, staffing and other expenses that smaller gigs today, and even fairly big gigs in the past, don't incur. There are still plenty of mid-level and low-level gigs that are not so expensive when inflation is taken into account.
Very good point as I've had to forgo more than a few concert attendances for crazy high prices & vendor fees. (I love Roger Hodgson of Supertramp, never seen him nor Supertramp though the group was one of my favorite bands while in college in the late 70s but last time he came thru St. Louis you had to cough up $400 if you didn't commit otherwise sizable funds months in advance!)
Look no further than Open Mic nights and free in the park summer concerts. Just great music being performed. Come to Iowa and you will see, hear and experience the opportunities. I recently passed on the Eagles concert that came to our state, at around $600 a ticket for a less than mediocore seat, who needs that? Not me.
The next best thing we can also do is support our local musicians/ shows at a fraction of the cost of those hefty big concerts
hey, you can still see great bands for 20$. I'm not going to 3-4 shows a week like I used to, now I can find the time and will to go to at least one show per month. I chose not to go to arenas where I must sit on my place like a dog
The internet is the best and worst thing to happen to humanity simultaneously in it's existence.
I agree and say this all the time. It's incredible how in some ways it makes my life easier and helps me find the info I need. But at the same time, it has dumbed down society and it's only getting worse. The rise of tech was incredibly exciting. I just don't know how we lost our way so badly as the years went by.
Agree also. And also say this often. A gift and a curse to humanity.
Nothing wrong with the Internet. It's the people that suck.
@@DisgruntledDoomeryeah but let’s not pretend the internet has creatured issues from humans we wouldn’t have seen otherwise
What a dualism, eh?
One of the first questions I ask new students is “what kind of music do you listen to?”, and for most kids they say that they don’t listen to music. It’s bizarre to see that, especially since they all have phones and laptops and music is easier than ever to find for free.
That's very odd. I feel like every class I've ever had my students have all said they listen to music.
sad...
I’m 76…..your perspective on the intricacies of all genres of music is intellectual, extremely well researched, and passionately insightful. In other words……you be on top of it…..and that’s why I watch your content and learn for it every time I watch your videos. Music is ageless and so is your insightful deep dive understanding of music. Rock on, Rick.
Well researched?! No it's not, no one searches for "hip hop" on google, they go to spotify or some other app for that. He presumes that the world has stood still since 2004 and google is the only way anyone finds music.
....couldn't have said this any better. A 66yo with a music degree from NEC.
I'm an old guy who recently took up guitar again after 55 years and I am hooked on it. I practice and play every. It's a joy. My concern is that social media has become a cheap substitute for real life experiences. One of the greatest joys in life is the feeling of satisfaction one gets from overcoming a difficult task or experience. I have faith that as time goes by more and more people will recognize that there is more to life than what social media has to offer. Young people are very smart and most will eventually figure this out once they realize social media is using them for the purpose of someone else making money off their precious tiime.
Yep.
Emotional intelligence is something you're not necessarily born with.
The people That we can both refer to as them, they know that they like swiping up in social media, it feels good.
Ever that's obviously a shallow experience, as it's consuming other people's content. The only contribution that they, the viewer have, is a fleeting emotional reaction.
Emotional intelligence should but isn't because people are naive, should inform these viewers that they will feel desperate at some point, because their individuality is not properly represented by someone else's creation, especially not by the collection of social media posts fed to them by an algorithm.
Speaking as a software engineer, I think I know about algorithms 🙂 I have emotions about algorithms that I have used and I have created 🙂 a bizarre convoluted form of art, but it's also art.
I was always super excited to show my instructor my progress from the previous week's practice. It would be embarrassing to go to a lesson - and not a cheap one either - without having practiced at all. Yikes.
@@jim5148My first guitar teacher made me play Barry Manilow songs (Mandy in particular) until he was satisfied with my feeling for the music. Oy vey. Be careful with who is teaching you. (This is a recovered memory, suppressed for a long time.) I’m better now.
You cracked it ' 100% right
The danger is that, like any addiction, by the time many people realise they are addicted, it has become very difficult to kick the habit. Drugs like heroin and cocaine carry a social stigma which can give enough shame to push people to seek help. Gambling and power are two addictions which are more difficult to identify, and much less stigmatised by society.
Social media addiction has become almost a mark of being part of society, and those who disdain its use, are treated as the odd ones out. Another thing is that social media platforms spend billions designing their products to be as addictive as possible, and their wealth and influence means that they can block any policies which might cut into their profits.
Music is now disseminated to a great extent by corporations who have NO interest in the music or the artists, therefore they go to great lengths to make the product as forgettable, anodyne and disposable as possible. This means they can replace one artist with another and the audience will hardly notice the difference.
The same is true of many areas of 'The Creative Arts'. Many major films are only bankrolled if they are vehicles for franchises, sequels and spinoffs. musicals have become overblown commercial vehicles for merchandising and vast touring circuses.
I'm a teacher. Truer words were never spoken. Tragic that what we're giving up is our creativity.
and Democracy was killed today by 6 people....SICK
More like being dumb down by design.
@@spingypsy Idiocracy, baby!
Music is vital for mankind's creativity in general?
We've given up that and so much more, for money, love of money
Rick, Im a recently retired Computer Engineer from a Fortune 20 company . Im 69 years old and forgotten more tech than 90% of the country. I am an avid music lover and have watched your channel from DAY 1. Love your videos even though I do not play an instrument. Our generation grew up with so much amazing music and talent that I am so grateful to of lived during the past 70 years. You are so spot on with this video and you really hit the nail on the head. A good friend of mine told me a long time ago when Facebook first came out that social media would ruin the society. I told him at the time he needed to have an open mind and that I felt society would be just fine. Things always have a way of working out. But what you described is so true, and so sad at the same time. It’s obvious my friend was right because social media has ruined the younger generations and probably many more generations to come. The genie is out of the bottle and I don’t know how we put it back.
That's an easy one... solar storm taking out the internet... 😉 And then... back to the roots.
I'm a 71 yr old retired Computer Engineer and have actually had some misgivings about a career I used to think was magical. I failed to foresee the Pandora's box end result, and not just in music.
@@anesthetizedangel4845 And that means what exactly now? Of course things don't always get better. But what does it have to do with Boomers?
@@criscainemusic I know you’re being cheeky, but a solar storm taking out the entire Internet would result in the deaths of millions of people. Crazy how dependent we are on it.
@@criscainemusicAmen!
I think that the only way to settle this debate is to compare songs, 1 to 1. Those that make a case for modern music bring their hard hitters, the same for those that think old music is better. Then compare, analyze, vote, etc.
“What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly.”
We used to have to wait for months for new content from our favourite artists, and when it finally came out, we had to go to a store and buy a physical object in order to hear that music. We invested so much more of our time and money, and we appreciated the value of it.
With the advent of newer technology, people with a fraction of the talent can make and release music, and listeners can access it for a fraction of the price. Is it any wonder that people don’t care as much as they used to?
Technology was supposed to democratize music; instead, it has merely cheapened it.
Kinda like what Marxism/Socialism/Communism does to human life in general...
Wait "months"?!? We had to wait YEARS!!!! And then have the money to afford to buy the album and, hopefully, see them on tour. You can listen to everything now for a pittance versus you could listen to what you could afford to buy or could get as a copied cassette from a friend or snail mail tape trading. Those tapes were GOLD -- GOLD I TELLS YA! Yeah... I'm that old.
Very good post. The easy-come-easy-go principle.
Some of the "new" music I discover & collect these days are via digital tech platforms. It's convenient, easy and cheap to do. Well, yippee yay. But it doesn't give me a millionth of the satisfaction I got during my childhood days, delivering newspapers at the cruellest, coldest, darkest hours of the morning on my bicycle, day after day, so I could finally buy that 7-single or album I coveted.
I still have those albums. I've taken care of them, and playing them still warms my heart in ways that no streaming platform could ever hope to do. Some day after I've passed someone will throw them in the trash. But for me, those are the memories and experiences that make me feel wealthy. It is wealth in the head, which is far more valuable than wealth in the pocket.
This debate has shallow historical understanding. What about before the advent of industrialised musical distribution and recording technologies? How did people in, say, 14th century Peru value music compared to today? It wasn't available to buy, I suspect.
TBH, I think it’s largely due to a reduced attention span. I wonder what the figures on book reading or even movie watching is like?
I was actually getting depressed that I wasn't getting any results from my practice routines. And now, I feel much better knowing that nobody seems to be even thinking of picking up an instrument these days. Thank you sir, this is great motivation for me!!!
As long as you want to learn you will. No idea why force kids to take music lessons if they don't have desire to play. If you don't want to do something even if you are forced you will stop sooner or later. And if they wanted to learn to play they wouldn't need music lessons. Internet is full of music lessons today.
Learning ebbs and flows, at least for me. I’m a mid level beginner guitarist that’s practices about an 1-2 hours a day 5 plus days a week. I’ll have an awesome day playing where it feels like I’m nailing everything. Then the next 3 days I’ll just suck. Then day 4 comes around and bam another great playing day. The key, don’t get discouraged, keep practicing and it will come. We all know the great guitarist on earth today still practice. So if they do and need too, so do I🤘
@@weets69good work bro
I dont mean to be mean but this is kinda cope. There are plenty of young people picking up stuff, and kids that can absolutely shred guitars or play drums like beasts.
@@thrpotatoasfgfejfidieiidkr7071 I have no doubt about that but I think those of us older than 40 know how it worked then and if some teen actually made hit song (because of being talented) in 80s people would fight to get that person and song to publish it and person would become famous and everyone would be hearing that song playing everywhere. Even 40+ years ago people "manufactured" stars and bands but real talent or young band that had few good songs were discovered mostly by radio DJs and people who went to underground clubs. You have RUclips today and you could make great song and AI would never discover it ergo nobody would see it. And competition was fierce even before now it's whole world. So what used to be summer hit is now work of art. ANYWAY , DAMN YOU CLOUDS lol.
I'm 70, a first generation Beatles fan having seen them "live" on Ed Sullivan in Feb '64. It dictated a life as a working musician and happy to say, I'm still working, making a better living today than ever before (knock on wood). Rick is a hero and one of my regular "go to" channels on RUclips. This video is the truth, as are ALL of his videos. I've lived the American Dream, being born in S. California '53 so I have perspective not only as a musician but as a Sociology major in College. Our culture is in decline..some would say freefall. Don't believe I've ever chimed in before but this video got me going..;-) Rick, please keep doing what you're doing!
You saw the Beatles live? Luckyyyyyyyy!🥰 Rick Beato Rocks!
I'm 67 and I love any kind of music, jazz, classical, blues, rock etc. To be a real musician is a lifetime commitment but also to be a good listener is a process that takes a lot of time and passion. I agree with you that a lot of "modern" music has very little quality. I think that the main cause is that in recent times commitment and average attention span has been exponentially reduced and this applies to both musicians and listeners. That is a big problem not only for music but generally speaking for every form of art and human expression. Music has enriched my life and has helped my personal growth. Today we listen to many form of "fast food" music. A commodity engineered to be consumed quickly and after a very short time is destined to fall into oblivion. Real music is timeless and it never gets old, it does not matter when it was composed or recorded. Thank you Rick for the quality of your channel.
Well said. And in your words there is hope.
Haters gonna hate! Don't listen to them, Rick!
I despise that comment. "Haters gonna hate". Opinions are just that. Telling someone not to listen to certain comments is obsurd. We are suppose to ignore everyone and listen to you?
Haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate
Haters suck @ss
@@bradspringer2372yes exactly - this ain’t the real life, this is social media and if you’re a content creator, the reassurance is shown by numbers - not by negativity
Honestly, if anyone needs ricks videos to be explained to them, and they still doubt his intentions at that point, then they're probably too far gone imo.
For those looking to follow up on the "new to you" suggestions from Rick:
1. Matteo Mancuso (Italian guitarist known for his fingerstyle technique and unique arrangements)
2. Mateus Asato (Brazilian guitarist, known for his melodic and emotive playing style)
3. Mohini Dey (Indian bass guitarist, known for her virtuosic playing and collaborations with renowned musicians)
4. Tosin Abasi (Nigerian-American guitarist, known for his progressive metal band Animals As Leaders and his extended-range guitar playing)
5. Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051 (a collection of six instrumental works, showcasing Baroque music at its finest)
6. Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly, Op. 68 (a famous Italian opera about a tragic love story between a Japanese geisha and an American naval officer)
7. Ludwig van Beethoven - Missa Solemnis, Op. 123 (a monumental mass for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, considered one of Beethoven's greatest works)
8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 (one of Mozart's most famous and emotionally powerful symphonies)
9. Charlie Parker - Ko Ko (a groundbreaking bebop jazz composition by the legendary saxophone player, known for its fast tempo and complex improvisations)
How did you download my playlist...?
I wish that I could copy and paste your list. But, RUclips won't let me..... Dawn internet!😀
🎉❤🎉 Yesss
@@MJ-xk5tsscreenshot it!
Screenshot for later 😊
A lot of people missed the point of your video, Rick. 🥺
Spotify top 10 is bs. 😂 Spotify doesn't play all the artists
A lot of people are missing a lot of points these days. I’m guessing that social media has destroyed attention spans and critical thinking skills have suffered accordingly.
I would venture a guess that most of those remarks came from people that didn't even really listen to what Rick said. He's an old white guy on the internet, sadly that is enough to almost immediately invalidate his opinions to a lot of younger people.
@@BooksForever
It’s ruined the average person’s appreciation, for any art.
There are small groups, in every age group, who still try to go back and find where the music they love, actually comes from, was inspired by, or sampled from, if not strait up taken and put rap or new vocal over it, whether they keep the chorus or not, and/or it and the main melody/bass line, are the meat of the song. 😵💫
As I said before... nothing to do with age or generations...
I was born on 1988 and I listen music from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and even some bands from the 2000's...
Music is now ultra-procesed auto-tune mumbling t*ash...
The last decade and a half has been God awfull 💩
Spot on Rick! I'm 62 as well and when I attended the Berklee College of Music in the Summer of 1981, I was encouraged by both staff and fellow students to practice TEN HOURS per day. There is a reason for that...natural talent or not, you will see extreme progress as a musician if you put in the time. You can even be kinda unfocused in your practice if you rock TEN hours per day and still make major progress. "As a musician, should at least put in 8 hours per day of practice...same amount of time as a person who flips burgers. At least do that much." -Steve Morse
doesnt matter if you practise 15 hours a day if you dont have talent and cant write a good song
@@MetalDeathHead Talent is just having a bit of a head start... Anyone can become good even in composition if they are patient and if they practice, in fact, anyone can become a real master, it can take years though... Writing a good tune is not magic, it's about learning theory, learning some principles and rules and being able to make things work... Hardest part is often writing the lyrics...
@@musicfriendly12 I dont buy that, being able to write a good song doesnt come from practise, you can be the best guitar player in the world and still not be able to write a good memorable catchy song, if you have it then you have it, simple as that, i agree about the lyrics though.
@@MetalDeathHeadand where do you get that assumption from? Obviously some people were able to make masterpieces with no knowledge but that doesn’t mean you can’t do too with a lot of practice. Talent can’t really be scientifically measured, so I have no idea why you are taking such an extreme stance. Practice and knowledge can be measured. At least strive at that.
@@TsotneUsharidze im just saying there are people who are very good at their instrument but cant write a good song.
People don't seem to realize that "you're just old" or "you just don't get it" don't constitute arguments.
Same as answering with "because"... "Because" is not an answer, it's the prerequisite to an answer.
@Ilovetocheer139 Perhaps the premise is air-tight but the conclusion is not.
Argumentum Ad Hominem. I think these "arguments" are called that way.
This was exactly my reaction Corn. The middle aged or old arguments are used to avoid real conversations about a topic.
It's called ad hominem and it's a logical fallacy. So you're right.
I'm concerned that everything in life has gone towards short snippets. It started with the news with sound bites but has really accelerated over the past few years with "shorts/tik tok" etc. I'm in my 50s and even I find myself getting caught up in the "Where's my next dopamine hit?" Can't commit to a movie, can barely commit to a TV show. I'm sure others can relate. But then, just occasionally I'll manage to take the time to read a book, listen to an album (as opposed to a Spotify playlist). And when I do, it rewards me with a calm you don't get from 15 second clips. Keep up the good fight Rick. 👍
You are exactly right. Same here.
Totally agreed in every way from a guy 20 years younger
Try to keep your comments to 40 characters or less in the future
Attention deficit
@@richardgillette5759 😆
The human condition is always to take the path of least resistance. Watching the world go by on social media on a smart phone is the very definition of “least resistance”, and that’s why people (all people, not just youngsters) don’t “practice” or learn to play instruments, “it’s too hard”, just like you said Rick. But to be fair, if the internet, smart phones and social media had been invented in the 1950’s, none of the great R+R bands of the 60’s+70’s would have ever gotten together, because all those teenagers would have been watching videos on their phones instead of playing guitars and drums, just like the kids of today.
So who is making those videos if everyone is too busy watching them?
I don't believe tiktok is the reason why kids supposedly supposedly have become less motivated to pick up an instrument. There always used to be books, comics, video games etc to give kids distraction with something that doesn't take much effort. If anything, it's become dirt cheap and relatively easy to record and release a track/album, the average 19 year old guitarist now has more processing power and instruments in his home studio than any professional music studio in the '60s/'70s.
Exactly.
Maybe the majority are wasting time on their phones, but there's still many that are hard working. Several sports have young people that are as good as anyone from the past. It has never been easier to learn than it is now, can buy a Rick Beato course, if he isn't too busy on social media😂
Great conception. And btw even cable TV wasn't that bad; and if that didn't have that negative of an effect, then that probably means that watching RUclips videos all the way through doesn't either. So it's gotta be TikTok and RUclips Shorts that ppl resort to.
I admire your passion about music and your dedication to the details. I don’t have that expertise in music. What I do enjoy is listening to music of varying types. What I do enjoy is being able to sing along, walking or running to a beat, and having a relationship with the words - good or bad, happy or sad. I am glad I am not always angry about the details and simply enjoy.
Music used to be a social scene. Now social networks are the "scene". There were grunge scenes, punk scenes, metal scenes, and every week we all looked forward to hanging out at the shows and seeing new bands. That's a big reason why music has lost popularity as social networking increased.
I was at a local mall today. I heard a guy say, “dead end” as we both hit the eastern most wall. I replied, “dead mall.” We spent about 40 minutes walking through the mall looking at closed shops… and very niche shops that were open but had zero customers. We reminisced about how the mall was once a mixture of social scenes and how it was the place to be if one had a social life. The highway traffic died down, so we parted ways.
I was online using Prodigy and AOL in 1995; the information revolution wasn’t supposed to end up like this. I’m so happy that I am still able to strike up a conversation with a stranger at a mall… for now.
Yep. Kids don't want to emulate musicians anymore, they want to emulate social media personalities.
Excellent comment. Indeed, there were all these great music scenes in cities everywhere. It was a big part of the sense of community people had that has disappeared in so many other ways.
Meanwhile, rates of depression and anxiety and feelings of isolation are going through the roof. It almost seems like we're forgetting what it means to be human.
@@USMiner Music is still a social scene, like how people are obsessed with musicians' personal lives and love affairs.
@@longstops1430 First world problem. Kids don't want to emulate anybody but themselves.
I teach public high school and can confirm- all the kids want is to watch short form videos. They would do it all day and night if they could. As a class project, they logged their phone hours over two weeks. After briefly digging into the data, I gave up on any true analysis because I was so depressed. 11 hours a day, 15, one girl did 17 hours in day. It is a drug and they are addicts. Of course art and music don't matter to them. Nothing does except the next video. I hope we are at the bottom with phones and social media, and that we can start getting them out of schools and out of kids brains. If we don't, it will not be just our culture that suffers, but our economy, our politics, and our democracy.
We're already there. Just look at the last presidential debate...
Our schools don't allow children to use their phones during the day. Phones get confiscated if anyone is caught using one during school hours.
@@harrysuber4462 well of course. THAT part is true.
All the other things Rick complains about, like how music is too easy to consume and create now and that it’s become completely valueless to society because we use the technology that is given to us instead of doing the hard way, and that music is getting worse now because of it, is absolute bullshit.
All so very true, social media is the worst thing to afflict the human race in decades, maybe even centuries. Rick uses music as the example but in fact it is virtually every worthy pursuit or endeavour that is suffering.
@@harrysuber4462 That is very disturbing. Some of them are spending half to 3/4 of their day looking at the phone. Not communicating, studying, reading, listening to music, or socializing. Since I presume they're living with their parents, there should be limits set on the time spent on the phone: a certain amount of time to be spent on studying and homework, chores, and also on recreation or enjoyable hobbies, besides being a slave to the phone. But the pattern has been set; parental lack of involvement is at least partly to blame.
I have been a private music teacher for 30 years and your stance on this matter can be 100% confirmed by me. I spent a lot of my time being frustrated with this larger part of this new generation that just does not seem to ever get to the point of appreciating what one’s personal effort can turn into, which is the priceless jewel of merit. You can actually do something as you progress along this journey of study and development. And that what you can do is actually larger than the sum of its parts and also contains you. You do not lose ‘you when you invest in the way you express yourself. You become 101% of it. And whether that is about music or arts or whatever, the results are all the same.
When I was 10, I could not imagine being able to do something when I was 15 but I practiced for it and it happened. Reaching that was the biggest gift. And much much much more bigger than I could ever imagine. And it had actually hurt to practice, but I just couldn’t give up. I wanted to be able to do this thing so I practiced. Now what I have in return is incomparable in size to the suffering of learning. Now I know that this hurt is turning into something good I want to hurt more in that same fashion. It is a good hurt! And somehow getting through the mental blockade that that brings with it is something that this generation is largely missing. That is such a shame because that thing is at the core of the greatest gift in life; maturing. Taking responsibility for this is your gift to you and it pays itself back 101%.
We are the last generation who lived withOUT mobile phones (or even computers).
Our kids are born into this digital environment and their only guidance is an outside/foreign experience, us!
Their kids are going to be doomed.
No work, No reward. Being void of a sense of accomplishment is no way to be proud or to live. What's the point in it? Or is it just to be entertained??!!
This is the result of "everyone gets a medal" mentality.
@@denfranke4464 I get what you’re saying but the truth is that you were the exception to the rule. Every generation has millions of kids taking music lessons and a small fraction actually put in the time and effort to work on it. My uncle sold and repaired used instruments for five decades and it was always the same. He would sell an instrument and end up buying it back within a year or less, cleaning it, then reselling it. Was the entire backbone of his income and there’s nothing different about it today.
Young people now crave the immediate reward of dopamine they get from computer games, and social media. Sitting patiently with a musical instrument, concentrating on learning a piece of music, or a technique just doesn't deliver the upfront hit of dopamine they're after.
Alternative perspective on the declining search trends: The internet now compared to 2004 is much more consolidated and much less exploratory in how people use it, at least in the sense of the websites visited. People tend to stop searching for something broadly on Google when they have a preferred app or website that provides that thing. For example, the search popularity (in the US) for "video" peaked in 2013 and "youtube" peaked in 2014. This is despite the fact that people in the US spend much more time on RUclips and online video now than they did in 2013-2014. Once people know where to go for videos on the internet, they don't need to search anymore.
THIS!!! People don't search for hiphop on google they use spotify or apple music
yeah this sounds so much more reasonable than his logic of using google search trends, that seemed like a very misrepresentative source of data for this to me
"Playing video games takes work" feels like such a weird statement but it's like completely true
You can get paid for playing a video game. Let that sink in.
The grind of going up the levels is like a day job for some people.
@@aliensporebomb It is for Contra, I can tell you that.
@@adamgh0 Oh goodness... you couldn't be more correct. At least, I believe so - I haven't even gotten past the first boss yet. You know, the one that you encounter with all the cores and stuff, after you get past the stage with the electric zapper, and enemies that you have to duck under? Yes, that one.
When my daughter says "I'd rather watch someone else play it". :facepalm: Hit the nail on the head.
I live in a fairly artistic area of London (UK), one of my neighbours is part of Rudimental (some of their YT videos have 100+ million views).
The good thing I've noticed (especially as it's summer), is the amount of people practicing. There's at least 2 drummers from 2 different apartments who I hear who practice at least 5 times a week on their practice pads. I also hear a violin player plus a trombone player.
We've also got a church that plays modern African music with a live band every Sunday morning, so it's really nice to hear them play (I can hear them from my work room window).
I know it's not like this everywhere, at all. But it's reassuring to know there's still pockets of areas in the world that are more musical.
Yes, I agree that in bigger cities there is the work / outlet for musicians which is great. In the outskirts of the country it's not so great.
Still no where as good as Goldie though or ltj bucken
@@christopherdean6179 Of course not. Spent my raving teens listening to theore intelligent stuff like Goldie, Ronnie Size, Bukem etc
But after knowing my neighbour for a few years I was surprised when he said he was in a band. Even more surprised when I found out it was a band that had millions of views per video (I didn't know who Rudimental was before he mentioned it).
@@christopherdean6179Bukem!
this is more the truth than this video suggests. i think he did this for the likes and views because, where it generates income and a guy has to make a living. But is he really being fair to musicians everywhere in the world who make music? Social media has brought us musicians from small villages to inner cities. That old American model of playing in a school band is not common everywhere.
I am 73 and recently restored my vinyl collection (jazz and rock mostly) as a major source of pleasure. My adult kids and I send clips of music to each other almost daily. I have been so pleased to share some of the things that I learned about thru your channel (e.g. Guthrie Govan). There are days when I think the future is lost, music and so many other things too, but all we can do is to keep learning and share the wisdom.
So much of the music now sounds alike. If I heard a song in the '60s, '70s, and even the '80s, 9 times out of 10 I could identify the artist. Not now. So many of them sound alike. I remember my daughter coming home from high school in the early '90s, all excited that she'd found a new band and loved it. She played the song for me on her Walkman (LOL!) and I said. "Oh yeah. That's Queen, I"ve got several of their records." She said that they were so different that she thought for sure that they had to be new.
As a musician, the current state of music is heartbreaking. I don't know that it will EVER be like it once was.
It won't and music will be taken over by AI, it is already happening and AI will get better year by year as more money is thrown at it.
@@Ozymandias1 I think all that really means is there will be a split in the music world, between A.I generated slop for the masses, and real musicians who make real music for music lovers.
Even if all online platforms become completely overrun with A.I generated crap, there is still the offline world of live music, played by human beings.
@@bluesrocker91Human beings, who stare at the screen of their smartphones most of the time
It's not supposed to be like it once was though, not unless you're listening to recordings. Music changes over time, it's supposed to do that because it's a reflection of the minds of the times. Green Day's new album called Saviors doesn't sound like Black Flag because it isn't supposed to, it's a third of a century newer.
@The-Lard310 It doesn't have to be a pub or a club. You can play an impromptu live set in a park.
Grinning from ear to ear here enjoying your rant Rick. Good to see the nicest man on RUclips vent a little! Am simultaneously very sad to listen to the data you present as i know it's true. I'm 51 and relearning the drums after a 30 year break and am discovering the absolute joy of regular practice with its frustrations and moments of noticeable progress. It has changed my life on so many levels even if i never play publicly in the future. It's the process. Despite the demoralising statistics you've presented there's a part of me that will remain quietly optimistic that at some point down the road the masses will rediscover the joys of creating and learning how to play music with a minimum of technological assistance and a maximum of human and physical effort. 'You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.'❤
i'm the same. played in my teens, now back on it for 5 years and was 50 this year, I now understand how to practice and learn rudiments etc. I;m now getting somewhere with my playing. Evning enjoying the practice pad.
i dont know if youve paid attention recenetly but the "nicest man on youtube" has been a ranting dork that spazes out on things he does not like for.. months now!
@@krusher74That's great to hear. As a teenager I never bothered with the rudiments, or even lessons or a practice pad. Bought a kit when I was 15, played along to records and in a few covers bands. Basic rock stuff. I was OK but never great (for obvious reasons!). Gave up because I was stuck at a certain level and life took over. Since taking up the drums again last year ( a basic e-kit and a practice pad) I've already developed more than I ever did as a teenager. Approaching the kit with humility and patience, focusing on good technique and rudiments, and not putting any pressure on myself has made every practice session a pleasure. Aiming for a solid single and double-stroke roll as my goals for now. Not there yet but well on my way. Glad to hear you're enjoying your drums again. 👍👍
From an old episode:
Homer: "Hey, how come you never play your guitar anymore?"
Bart: "I’ll tell you the truth, Dad. I wasn’t good at it right away, so I quit. I hope you’re not mad."
Homer: "Son, come here. Of course I’m not mad. If something’s hard to do, then it’s not worth doing."
Sad, but increasingly true.
"Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you finally wish Flanders was dead."
Simpsons were scary right. AGAIN.
From the soapbox derby episode I think...
Bart: "Dad, you taught me to win!"
Homer: "When did I ever teach you that?"
Bart: "Well, I picked it up somewhere."
A favourite of mine
Wow, that's very sad! Homer is a great example of how to be a horrible Dad.
Kiitos!
My best friend in high school, Joey Lynch, was a gifted musician. He played guitar, piano, trumpet, trombone, and if necessary could fake it on bass and drums. He wrote and arranged music, too. He also had a decent singing voice and was very good at harmonies. How did he do all this? Because he WORKED. He PRACTICED his craft, and he took pride in it. I always admired him. I was even a little envious of him. I never learned to play an instrument. Now I'm 64 and I regret it. Joey passed away several years ago at age 58. I still miss him. I miss his music. Joey was the real deal.
His work ethic, at that age, was inspired by his discovery that he had was gifted--he had talent. Of course it takes tons of hard work and practice, But nothing inspires that like finding out you have the ear, the dexterity, the memory, the mind, the passion...the talent.
I'm sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing...❤
He also had a massive amount of talent. I could play most of the brass and most percussion. I learned because my main instrument was Tuba and I had a lot of extra time. I just never had the hands for strings or piano. I had good theory and got accepted to Berkeley in Boston but couldn't afford it. I didn't have massive talent but had a good amount, a good ear and solid arranging. I wish I had guitar or piano chops. I let my tech slip though. Now I need to learn to use this new stuff and make some songs happen. Joey a good guy to hang with? Bet he was.
It’s never too late to start. And the fun part is, you make the most noticeable progress in the first few years.
Good friend of mine in college, during the eighties, was a natural. Coming from a family of classical musicians, he was a gifted piano player and would decipher bass and drum parts so that I and our less talented musician friends could play with him. A few years later he would be playing at lounge bars and jazz clubs during his spare time. Today he is a banker in Luxembourg and we frequently share Rick Beato's videos, as we both love watching them.
I was listening to the the Third Brandenburg during a work out. A younger guy comes over and asks what I am listening to. I said the Brandenburg. He looked puzzled Bach - classical music. I filled in the gap for him. His face wrinkled up. I look up at him and said - I have some classical that will get your attention - he just laughed. I pulled up the the 9th symphony (Yes - That ninth) - put on the second movement - gave him the ear buds and hit play. He froze in place - his eyes went unfocused. He didn't move for about 2 minutes. He tried to hand my buds back. I said - try this. I put on vivaldi's Winter - he froze again.
He handed me the buds back and walked away. A while later he walked over with his phone in hand - What was that you played?
Beethoven's ninth symphony - listen to all 4 movements, Vivaldi's Four Seasons - winter. There's 500 years of great music to try.
Every time I see him now he asks for more recommendations.
The kids know nothing about music but bless their souls when they actually listen - they are mesmerized.
Teach 'em!❤
give him ride of the Valkyries
@@FrankFerret Bach Tocata and fuge in D minor
And then the whole gym applauded
You went for the jugular on that ones, beautiful.
Timeless Masterpieces.
Rick you are very open minded and people should respect that. People who insult you because of your age is a disgrace.
I wonder how much of those "okay boomer" comments are from those who know less about current music than Rick does. Those people would be eminently ignorable, except that any civilization that ignores its decline is doomed.
Rick, you nailed it. You are a blessing for this 74 year old former arteest who grew up into a creative director. I have learned more about music from your videos than even my extensive buying spree into every form of music. Keep trucking, Dude.
100% of people leaving those stupid comments haven't watched your full video. I thought it was one of your best videos ever, well written and edited
they watched a 10 second clip from someone else is why.. there was ppl bashing rick when he went off about video games how he ignored the music when playing them... .. which i also found odd.. Game music is really awesome. how could rick not notice that sort of thing.. he's still not embraced what game music is yet.. i literally am a video game composer too lolol. I still love rick don't get me wrong. he's cool
I've gone through depression through the best part of my 40s and while I wouldn't attribute it only to social media, truth is during that time, I cut myself off from the things I used to love and live for before that. I got better since, therapy and all, but even more recently, I've started to examine my media consumption and started to make changes. More films, less shows, less social media. More reading, and a return to writing, my main passion. More listening to music as in really doing just that, listening to a new album, or rediscovering my collection... And I've even picked up the bass again and dedicate a minimum of 1 hour to practicing every day... Why am I saying all this? Well, turns out I've never felt healthier mentally. I feel like I put my brain under a lamp and thawed it. So my point is, yeah, listen to Rick's wise words, get off the social media and come back to life again, folks. Your mental health will thank you.
Amen. I’ve been struggling with low mood, and generally feeling ‘flat’. I was only listening to music on RUclips, and not my extensive CD or vinyl collection, and I certainly wasn’t making music anymore (but I think the loss of a dear friend a few years ago who encouraged me to make music didn’t help). By chance I saw a poster offering the opportunity for me to join a male choir, which was being started from scratch. After 12 rehearsals we performed a concert. It’s been the most joyous thing I’ve been involved in for years. Last night I was singing sea shanties with the guys……..music as therapy, to lift mood, to affirm what it is to be alive - I can’t recommend it enough! Beats programming a computer anyday!
Couldn't agree more.
This is a great comment. Who cares what anyone else does or thinks? You can make and love music (or writing or whatever). It’s your life, live it your way.
Neuroscientists will tell you: You rewired your brain
It is deeper than this. People are more isolated than ever before. Things have moved from listening to the radio at home with family and friends back in the 1920s to playing the new record with family and friends in the 1930-50s to driving around with friends with the radio on in the 1950-70s to today where spotify is a solo event or surfing internet with spotify on in the background alone. People used music as a media to meet and talk such as dance halls to concert trips to just hanging out. Now more people than ever are lonely and isolated. I dont' know if it is the immediate gratification that we have now or the hurry up rat race or depressing outlook of kids nowadays.
The Internet has really enabled us to isolate ourselves. COVID, of course, did not help. But the Internet has introduced me to Patrick Bartley, Snarky Puppy, Lake Street Dive, Monsieur Perine, The 8-bit Big Band, Super Soul Bros., David Marriott Jr., Charles Earland, Manami Matsumae, The Huntertones, The New Radicals, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Mathilde Gardien, the Montreal Video Game Orchestra, and the R&B version of The Crusaders. Plus... Strasbourg-St. Denis. And I've seen these folks live when I could. So it can enable great music to exist in ways that it never could before. RUclips videos are becoming the definitive recordings of things.
to listen to music with others means that you need to find a common denominator of you all's tastes, which is not always successful. if you listen on your own, you can listen to whatever you want. with streaming platforms, musical tastes have become more personal than ever.
Nice job completely skipping the 90s-2000s
There's an even deeper reason beneath the isolation though: our souls. It's unnatural for human beings to avoid one another because we are created to be in community. Why are people wanting to be more isolated then? I believe the answer is because we have our heads filled with materialism, godlessness, and that generates lies and darkness. If you do that you will literally turn into Gollum. Tolkien knew what he was writing.
@@OdaKathe 90's had good music but it also began declining rapidly as we approached 2000. The 90's signaled the rise of self centered, pessimistic, thinking. That was a soul cancer that has now spread into everything. It has all but ruined art, especially music. Singing about ourselves is the most boring subject ever.
I was telling fellow musicians about the Led Zeppelin II story. I empathise completely. I’m trying to get my grandkids interested in what I’ve spent my life to learn. Prediction. They won’t nor neither will anyone. This is the same as the other way I spend my life. Building cars. Making things. These are lost arts. Thank you, dear Rick. I feel a kinship but I don’t know what the answers are. I can only remain to hope - while I enjoy myself continuing to learn and impress those who do not have a clue how to play, ride, build, ski, fix, create, write, invent, repair, improvise, hope, dream…
I never thought computer games would get defeated by social media. I know more people who watch people playing games, rather than playing the games themselves. It's quite odd when you think about it.
I am in my late 30 and i am into retro video games and technology. In the past, i feel like this involved more collecting, restoring and using retro video games and technology. More and more i find myself consuming media *about* retro video games and technology instead of seeking it or using the things i own myself. I feel like we are becoming more passive as a society, and i don't think it's an isolated youth problem as much as it is an *everyone* problem. I don't have any answers but this is just my experience.
South Park even has an episode about that lol
Contrary to popular belief that is NOT a new thing. Back then we used to watch other people play, it's just that it was our friends on their televisions. Streaming is just that, but over the internet.
It's because Twitch is considered social media in the stats. The kids are consuming insane amounts of games - they just aren't playing themselves
Social media is so bad even gaming is now considered a higher quality leisure activity and a better use of your free time
What you said is right on. I am 72 and when I record, I play my instruments all the way through the whole song. I don't cut and paste. I play guitar everyday. I also play keyboards, bass, and mandolin. Sometimes I just sit down and start noodling on the guitar and almost always come up with an idea for a new song. I come up with lyrics in the shower. I compose Rock, Blues, Ballads, Folk, Celtic, Classical, Electronic, Country Rock, and Traditional Chinese music. Thank you for the video Rick.
i am 26 and i can't get one take right, even after 1:30 of repeating the same 36-bar part... on loop record
that goes for singing or guitar... i should have practiced more for the last ten years and should practice more now. i really should. after a week of practice though i can frankenstein a take from two okay-ish takes...
@moliver_xxii The best way to get consistent is practicing, yes, but get out of the studio more and go play gigs. Nothing makes you a tighter musician more than playing live. Gigs will force you to build up your chops, and you will have fun and make a little dough on the side.
Right on! I'm 60 and I feel younger in spirit today than I ever did when I was young in - body. 🙂
@@nachyomoney3598 So true.
Old man musician here. A young friend of mine said he chose making music with computer programs because it was the easiest and fastest way to create actual music. He has ALL instruments at his disposal and the computer plays them for him. Learning an instrument is too much effort and time for the instant reward TikTok generation, and it's just ONE instrument. Then you have to find other people to play with.
And now he's starting to use AI where he doesn't even have to program anything, he just types in a bunch of words and it pumps out a song in that style. I fear for the future of music as a creative art.
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That's horrendous and soulless. God help us.
Kind of like an electric guitar in comparison to a violin or saxophone.
17 year old producer here, I can play keys, drums, bass and guitar all to an extent where I can play live. But I still use plugins for certain instruments like drums because it's so much easier to set up and I literally cannot afford 10 mics needed to mic up a kit
Also some genres lean towards much more sample based instrumentation that relies on this
Check out some more modern music outside of the mainstream
By definition a musician is someone who performs live music for an audience for a living. Using a computer to create music is not the same.
Well I ‘m an old man Rick, even by your standards (lol) . This is my first ever comment about anything on the Internet, but felt compelled after watching your video. You have addressed an issue that I am acutely aware of both with my offspring and everywhere else. I don’t live in the USA but what you describe seems to be universal. As both an ex musician and record producer I am saddened by the indifference to creative energy unless it comes from algorithmic canned intelligence. Enjoyment and fulfillment comes from endeavor and appreciation of what it takes to make something worthwhile. This is a lesson that most will never understand now, and I feel frustrated that the world has become exclusively focused on what’s in in for them without realising that in order to receive they also must give.
Great comment!
preach!
Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Excellent comment so true !
I just came home from a summer piano performance of my son's school. 30 kids, all in varying stages of musical development. Maybe three or four practice when not in a lesson with their teacher. My son, on the other hand, practices four hours a day, every day, all year. Needless to say he played last because he's the best in the bunch. He also teaches. Other parents came up afterwards, eager to know his "secret". There isn't one. It's just work. As the great wide receiver Jerry Rice said, “Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can do what others can't.”
Yes, that's the magic!!
That sums it all up. No secret, just work. and ANYONE "CAN" do it, but most will not. That's why I can fairly confidently say "It's not natural talent...just time put into the craft".
ay maybe give him a day off a week, i know you want him to succeed but my parents were like that and I dont touch anything anymore because i had a breakdown from stress
@@BB-848-VAC 😁, as a musician I can tell you from experience , nobody’s forcing him . ✌️🙏🕊️
@@BB-848-VAC You do not break down because of too much work. You break down because you are not satisfied with your results. That is what creates stress. In music and everything else. But sure, it can be nice to rest now and then. Do something else. But also, doing something else can be a bad habit, usually called procrastination. Not doing what you need to do but something else. And procrastination also causes stress. Because, you are not practicing enough to reach any interesting goals.
I have 4 kids. 2 of them are still taking piano lessons. My 16-year-old son finally buckled down and practiced "Fur Elise" by Beethoven when the teacher invited him to play it at her church as part of a concert. He worked and worked at it. The teacher wisely got him to do it. But my wife and I had to really whip him into shape. And the same is true for sports. I can't get my kids to practice at all. I sit for hours working on one song, and I enjoy the discipline of it. My kids see it, and when I play 3-hour shows, they know why. I put in the work. But getting them - intelligent, talented kids - to work hard on ANYTHING is next to impossible. Why? When i'm done work and come home, each kid is sequestered alone with their iPads in a room, doing mindless stuff. I think we should ban all devices from kids until they are 18. They are turning us into idiots.
Agree. It is a legitimate addiction.
Unfortunately for humanity, this ship has sailed, my friend.
guitartom wrote: "I think we should ban all devices from kids until they are 18. They are turning us into idiots."
Do it. They are your children. Their wellbeing is your prerogative. Set some boundaries, enforce some discipline, be a parent.
@@userer4579But it isn’t just kids. Most adults are equally addicted. Grazing on mindless news sites isn’t that different between grazing on mindless video games and RUclips videos. I find it odd that all these devices aren’t leading to more creativity. I mean, in your pocket you have a multitrack studio, a film editing lab etc and what do most people do? Nothing.
@@userer4579 I did keep my kids off of electronic devices, except for the laptops needed for school. The result: I am listening to my college age son play guitar at this moment and my college age daughter is creating jewelry for her Etsy shop. And now I'm hopping off RUclips to get some yardwork done. Can't be a hypocrite, right?
The decline in art and music appreciation is partly a function of the decreased emphasis in those subjects in public education.
That was my first inclination too. I didn't know people's interest had changed so, it's like music and art have been abandoned
@Jjj53214 you are dead right about that. The crashed American education system is wrecking/has wrecked millions of young lives, and is wrecking the future in the bargain. The country and the world will definitely suffer because of it.
its a decline in attention spans.
@@rodmact6548Be careful with terms like “crashed educational system” A big red movement in this country has been deliberately ‘crashing it’ in order to push privatization and vouchers and god. The crash isnt because of teachers or putlic schools.
If it doesn’t produce capital for our overlords it won’t be taught in any serious way or promoted by the media so that there is demand for learning said skills. All that’s left of our society is endlessly expanding the economy so that people can live miserable lives in drab office buildings working towards the final 10 years of their life that they can’t even make the most of because they are too decrepit. Then out of frustration they say “get a real job” to anyone who doesn’t work towards this imaginary expansion and label them as selfish and arrogant.
A justified righteous rant by Rick! I am 78, recently diagnosed with multiple TIAs which interfere with my speaking. We last year in May we moved to a senior retirement community. I have not touched my guitar since we moved, almost a year and half. This video inspired me to get it out and practice the few chords I know and sing again. You know what? I am eager to sing, because research says people with TIAs sing better than they talk, sometimes. Like Hans Niemann said after defeating Magnus Carlsen at chess, "Chess speaks for itself." Like Rick said, "the data speaks for itself." My only regret is that I cannot give two thumbs up to this video.
There's a principle in digital creation, (especially around procedurally generated content) where eventually, oversaturation of ANYTHING turns it into white noise. Music is too easy to create now. Since garageband, autotune, vocaloid etc, everybody can create music.
The over-accessibility is a factor too. Movies used to be an event, the whole gang would look forward to going to the cinema as a group, now we stare at our thousand options on Netflix and say "ugh, there's nothing to watch."
"Familiarity breeds contempt" and "Absence makes the heart grow fonder". These two old phrases speak of this phenomenon distinctly.
Funnily enough vocaloid music is created by musicians and one of them is Kenshi Yonezu, probably the most popular singer in Japan in the last few years. And while I am not too fond of Vocaloids this piece of news took me by surprise because I know Yonezu as a full fledged singer and composer.
PREACH!
What is the fix? Whar amount of artistic expression from people is the right amount so we get better artistic expression to enjoy?
I'm not saying I totally disagree with your comment, but it offers little to none in terms of viewing this new situation and taking a better course that benefits everyone.
You're comment is pretty much this much is too much, but do we now limit people from making music and art? Only good artists can make art?
@@ZeroG84 no, it's not about limiting people - it's about people knowing their limits. Nowadays it's: you can be anything but the truth is - you can't. Now with new toys people are being convinced they can be as good at doing something as people who dedicated their life to a given subject. There certainly is going to be more of this stuff - but not necessarily better ones.
@@mitabpraga7487 I mean... aphorisms are merely descriptive, not prescriptive. As for breeding, all you need to do is "f**k around and find out", right? 😉
49 year old music teacher here. I love your videos. Please keep going. Finally we have a musician asking these famous musicians about music. If you want to see a wasted interview opportunity check out Arsenio interviewing Miles. Most of my students do actually practice but they are more distracted and overbooked with activities than they used to be. I think the relationship the public had with music changed with Napster. Once it became not only ok but people’s “right” to download musician”s work without paying anything music became devalued in people’s minds. It has never recovered.
What if we lived in a society in which our living requirements - food, shelter and so on - were provided without the need to spend money? Would musicians in that kind of society be right to demand payment for their services?
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Obviously not, but this is not the case ATM. Since the introduction of royalties the musician's take has been in decline. We're being robed progressively and there's no turn in sight.
@@RobertJukicJRTV Devil's advocate here. First, not _only_ musicians are suffering a devaluation to their work in today's world; emergent technologies continue to displace all sorts of jobs, and that goes for creative jobs, too. Every hosting service from Etsy to RUclips squeezes the creators who stand on its platform. That's the corporate nature. Quality is taking a back-seat in today's mass culture: people want more, not better.
Second, abundance/market saturation do not devalue a product, service, or creation qualitatively; these can only reduce the product's visibility by displacement. If anything, an ocean makes every island that much more unique.
And finally, property. The "right" of a person to copy (and listen to) music from an online source is only as absurd as the belief that one can own the "rights" to music in the first place. Music, once performed, becomes no longer the possession of the creator. It has already been sold; it becomes an abstraction, a disturbance in the air that a person can no longer control. Tell me, if your guitar playing makes me cry, but that wasn't your intention, did I 'misuse' your product?
Before the Pirate Bay, I was stuck listening to the same old scratched-up CDs over and over. After that, my musical exposure increased by two orders of magnitude. As far as I can tell, not a single one of the performers I've listened to since then has been negatively affected by me in any other way than in their own mind. In contrast, I'm now in a better position to choose to support the musicians I truly love without having to make experimental purchases that end up supporting those I might not.
And now that music is no longer 'free' (because corporations get to sell it to us in crumbs), performers now also have to deal with media sites who are using their content to gather advertising revenue in exchange for the distribution. Whether you're the one who's singing or listening, there's no free ride. Point is, if you didn't want to make the music to share, you shouldn't have released it in the first place; the successful musician's life is already way, way, disproportionate to that of any other successful artist, so count your stars to not have been born to end up like me-a successful carpenter.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Anything provided or created from other people's work should be paid for, whether that's food and shelter or music and art.
If money didn't exist, that payment would likely be some kind of barter system. Nothing is free.
I agree about Napster. Friends would casually talk about how many songs they "ripped'. I'd tell them I always pay for my music because I don't want to steal from the musicians.
I read a lot of comments on 80's videos by people born in the 90's and later,
and even they say how much they love 80's music and vibe,
and is more positive musically than today's top whatever chart.
I was born in 1999, and I have the same exact opinions that Rick expressed in his last video. What he said is just objectively true, and those that don't agree don't seem to have much knowledge and undesrtanding of music past their favourite ""artist"" with their cult like following today. They are narrow minded and never experienced good music.
Everything is better than today’s music
If I was given a single song to listen for all my life, I'd choose "Don't stop Believin' " by Journey not the garbage we hear today. And I was born in the 2000's. 80's music just kicks regardless of when you were born.
The 80´s more positive than todays music ? I doubt that very much. Its the same C-G-Am-F cord progression in rock and pop then and now.
Most annoying thing in 80´s are the vinyl records. They all sounded absolute crap for starters because of a combination of the mixing fashion ( Thin bass, gated drums, screaming mid range and vocal tracks mixed far away) If you are not U2 or any other mega-band blessed with good sound engineers and a good cutting house, they all sounded crap, well at least 85% did.
@@Funkywallot You left out D Minor,
but seriously,
Lyrically the vibe was more positive in the 80's and the music videos more colourful and optimistic.
Smae is true of the 70's as well.
Theres nothing comparable to those artists today.
Its all thug life gangsta rap, and cicada trap beats.
Where's the diversity that we had in the 80's?
Nowhere!
Movie Soundtracks?
Zero.
I was just watching REM LIve, name one artist today that is comparable to REM?
No one!
Todays music is stagnant
I’m a soon to be 53 year old guy. I just bought a brand new Ibanez Prestige RG guitar, and I’m practicing my little heart out.
And I spend no time on Instagram, and have never even been on TikTok.
Maybe I’m an alien?
Im from Italy, so I’m talking by my perspective. Luckily in my country I’m noticing more and more students in their teens and even younger ones are starting to practice again and approaching to music like in the past. I’m 53, lately I watched a show in a pub where few bands of the local music school were on stage. Well they performed great and I got so very enthusiastic by watching and listening to them talking about music, future plans ,forming new bands. It reminded of my teenage past and that was great… As Italian guy, I believe we should be grateful to Maneskin, many young Italian people are starting to play and practice rock because of them.
My secret indulgence is big Italian pop from the seventies: great arrangements and vocals. People like Drupi and Tozzi (I know, I know).
I notice the exact same thing in Portugal.
Lost of kids learning, and listening to music with passion. And I see a good portion of youngsters interested in actual music, not just today's mainstream crap.
Honestly it looks like interest in music among the younger generations has been growing in the last few years.
Social media has essentially caused the general public to develop attention deficit disorder.
Boredom is a crime...
Rick, please never stop preaching this message. Your incite on this topic and ability to reach so many people is invaluable.
Well in that case ( social media ), it's more "attention is money".
Aphathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime... Everything and anything - all of the time
~ No burnham, welcome to the Internet
This is social media. What, you think Rick isn't checking his analytics right now 😂
I started playing piano when I was 9 years old. Switched to guitar at 12. Music-obsessed, I took lessons and played as much as I could. I wanted to be able to keep up with the boys. I went to a music school as a teenager and studied classical guitar and theory. I played jazz trumpet in my school band. I started writing songs and was endlessly jamming with other musicians whenever possible. I graduated high school in 1988. Everyone I knew loved music regardless if they played an instrument. Everyone had a favorite band that they’d go out of their way to see live. This was normal. Long, long story short, after 30 years as multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, I walked away from the music biz in 2015. The enthusiasm, the passion, was dying. Not in me but in general. I got tired of performing to phones. I became disillusioned by apathy. Yesterday I found myself contemplating the unthinkable- selling my trusty vintage Guild acoustic. Music is getting worse because it’s no longer the shared cultural experience it used to be. It’s no longer our society’s glue. When people talk about Taylor Swift, they rarely discuss the music rather the focus is on her and her love life. I still listen to music daily- it’s a huge part of who I am. I know we music nerds still exist and always will but we’re receding in the shadows.
Let me know if it's a DV-52. 😀
@@tonyp4092 haha… it’s a 1979 d25 and I decided against selling it. 😁
@@austincaruso7596 Huh? I think you’ve posted to the wrong comment. I never said I don’t like new music. I was lamenting societal attitudes towards music, which as a result of social media, has become more about personality than the actual music.
Man I think you nailed it better than anybody else in this comment section when it comes to how music is supposed to connect to us all. Passion drives motivation. And when we lack passion, we lack motivation. which inevitably results in laziness. We are getting too absorbed by social media and not letting people be able to show true expression through art. Because the old saying is "Life imitiates art."
To further elaborate, there’s an overall degradation in the quality of new music, which is the point Beato’s trying to make. This has to do with many different factors though I’d say phones/sosh media top the list. For eg; when George Harrison was an adolescent trying to learn guitar, he’d practice for hours & hours until his fingers bled. That kind of dedication results in quality music. I used to run a music school and teach guitar. Of my stable of students, I had one who actually practiced on his own time and that was only because his mother made him. Playing an instrument is a craft and like any craft, the more hours logged, the better the player. Younger musicians don’t seem to want to log those hours, choosing technology to fix mistakes or compensate for poor playing.
I totally agree wit what you say. You say it well! I particularly agree with the fact, that the love for music has waned extremely significantly. It’s so obvious. Especially for people who really love music!
63, learned to play guitar in my room with nothing but a record player, a junky acoustic and zero support. Seemed unfair at the time but, it taught me how to play by ear ,and really listen intently to decipher the parts. I caught a lot of flack from parents and friends for my determination to get it right. My now 9 yr. Old daughter is now playing any instrument that I hand her and she does not like any sort of over polished or programmed music. She has a Neil Diamond album that she framed, on her wall. I am a very proud dad. At 9 she understands truth from fiction and that the music industry is a messed up place, There is hope Rick.
props
Thank you for sharing...your testimony about the musical prowess and sensibilities of your nine year old daughter is truly uplifting...
@James-pq3qq Thank you for the kind response my friend.
I'm a private voice and piano teacher, and the students I have that are passionate about their music are the ones into jazz and/or musical theatre. Those kids will put in the work because jazz is cool and challenging (I'm a jazz vocalist, so I may have influenced them a bit) or because theatre just lights them up. I have less than a dozen of those, out of 35-40 students, and most of those are in high school. I'll do whatever I can to support their passion. I am a little younger than you, Rick, and I think it is harder to be a kid now than it was when we were young. There's so much more pressure on them, from so many different angles. The thing I stress with the non-serious musicians I teach is to use music to escape the pressures of life. I can lose myself for an hour or more doing my music, and if they are not going to dedicate their lives to it, at least they can use it as an outlet for expression, even if it's just for themselves. It's tough to pull the phone out of their hands, but I try to offer an alternative.
Social media is the least social thing ever. False branding! It should be called junk. Becuase that is what it is.
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Junk media
It’s Orwellian doublespeak. It’s the antithesis of anything social.
spot on!
Social media connects people, some of whom are ANTI-social. They get on social media to argue and criticize, take out their frustrations and anger. Strangers are being brought together hopefully to share common interests which is the case if you belong to a group with a common interest but at other times if you disagree or express an honest opinion about something you're raked across the coals.
You're absolutely right 💯 it's so sad that younger generations waste their time on social media 😢
True confession - even when I am listening to music I find myself getting anxious or bored about the time the first chorus finishes. I'm skipping songs and listening to the first minutes and then jumping to the next song in the playlist. Social media has destroyed my brain.
I understand how you feel because I am guilty of it too, but on the other hand, our time is precious and in a world where it feels like time is only speeding up and we are flooded with unlimited choices, we must prioritize our time on only that which is worth our attention
Maybe, maybe the songs are just not very good.
Try "the moldau" from Smetana. If you can listen to those 12 minutes just fine, your brain is not the issue, your feed is. ;-)
how about not listening to garbage genres of music?
Totally agree. I gave up all Social Media ,except RUclips, 3 years ago. I still feel like my brain has not "recovered" how I thought it would.
@@sk8ordie548Instead of being an absolute troglodyte about it, how about trying to understand what he's saying.
He could be listening to Eleanor Rigby, and still doing it.
Social media addiction is a behavioral addiction that is creating brain dopamine circuit mechanisms that include people "scrolling" to get that new fresh hit of dopamine. It becomes an addictive compulsion.
There are science papers in recent years that is showing evidence of this.
Hey Rick, I’m a 23 year old man who was introduced to rock and roll by my father, who was born in 1953. When I was young, I generally was more interested in new music that was being played on the radio, but as I became a teenager, I began to really fall in love with the music my father had introduced me to.
Despite the fact that I have no training in playing music or understanding music theory, music has played a fundamental role in my life. Through all of the ups and downs, it has always been there for me.
I believe that I discovered your channel sometime during my college career. Through the years, I have been amazed by your breakdown of songs and explanations of how the music industry has changed. I think I’ve always understood how music makes me *feel*, but not necessarily how it *works.*
All of this is simply to say that your channel is important to people like me. You have given me the words to explain the thoughts that I have about music, and the important role that it plays in the world. I have developed a great respect for the creativity that goes into making music.
Keep doing what you do, you are doing a great service to the entire industry and the next generation of artists and listeners.
I spent hours in my room as a little boy and teenager playing various instruments: harmonicas, guitars, mandolins melodicas,whistles and so on. I still do that. It has been such a huge part of my life.
You forgot to add, "never getting laid".
That's why I like to stick with my principles. Never argue with your Dad. He's lived decades ahead of you and he knows what he's talking about. Especially if he knows what he's talking about. Listen to him, don't argue, internalise what he has to say, and reap the rewards or walk away and don't listen, it's up to you. I know what I'm talking about.
As someone who loves music, being able to explore as much music as I want is the greatest thing ever to happen to me in my 50+ years. I can get on RUclips or Spotify or whatever and listen to albums for hours and hours. And I've discovered so much great music, including older music from my generation that I previously missed. Also, as a drummer, I can learn all I want from watching Drumeo or other videos which is something I wish I had when I was 16.
So I'm going to at least take this vast library of musical knowledge literally at my fingertips as a consolation to music as a hobby / profession not being as popular anymore. And perhaps in a generation or two, things will circle back to people wanting to make music again - and with all the knowledge that exists online for how to play and enjoy music, maybe our future musicians will be at the forefront of a renaissance of new music. Maybe we just need to let the digital dust settle for a while and then see who picks up the pieces.
I remember buying the Dave weckl and Dennis chambers videos at Sam ash😂
once the generation that doesn't care about music has kids, music will become subversive and cool again, as their kids start Punk bands to piss them off.
I am British, and the same age as you. I first started learning the drums. My father found a good drum teacher. He taught me to play military snare drum and how to read drum music. He told me if I could learn to play one drum, I could sort the rest out myself. I 'had' to practice every week. One time I hadn't practised, he knew immediately. He stopped me, and angrily threw me out, after two minutes. Telling me if it happened again he wouldn't teach me any more. I was terrified. Suffice to say, I practised like mad after that. When I was 19 I taught myself to play piano and guitar. I started playing gigs when I was 14 and have literally played thousands of gigs on all three instruments. I also set up and ran my own commercial recording studio for 20 years. Now I have a private studio and record my own compositions. Some instrumental and song songs. I post them on line and a new album is coming out soon. The ethos that was implanted in my head at a young age was to get as good on your instrument as possible. That idea, seems, for a lot of people, has changed. People need to get back to that idea.
Hmmm... it's interesting to me that instrumental competence is valuable as a commodity for, say, session playing, but it doesn't necessarily mean the musician is gifted as a composer or in other areas for which less- or un-trained performers shine. For example, Mike Garson, Bowie's pianist, showed his jazz-based brilliance in many albums and tours. But he seemed to fail completely to produce much music outside Bowie's orbit, as was the case for many other Bowie musicians who were equally talented as players. Same applies to many, many well-known members of backing bands.
How much do you love the music of Morrisey?
In my mid 40's now. It's amazing to think that the "mediocre" songs on the radio in past decades were so much better than the "hits" today. The 80's and 90's were a golden era of hearing variety and innovation on airwaves. Even in the early 2000's when genres were becoming homogenized, at least what you heard on different stations felt different. These days every radio station but the oldies, feel the same. Trap beat, trap beat, no soul auto tune bubble gum pop, aging irrelevant super star, trap beat. Every tenth song at best feels like it's something special.
You're missing out on a world of modern music if that's all you hear. Try going beyond the radio that is curated by the same mega-conglomerations.
@@matthewdennis1739 you absolutely misinterpreted my point. 30 + years ago, great music was pretty easy to find. Not everything on the radio was great. But it was there. Great music was popular. These days finding great music takes lots of work.
Spotify was supposed to be one of those tools. They were supposed to be able to find music similar to what you liked. Make suggestions based upon your history. Rather I find their algorithm pushes more of the same corporate crap that I avoid on the radio. Outside of some very trusted friends with more time than me to hunt good music- I find RUclips recommendations serve me more interesting music than other services.
Mediocre hit songs of past decades is still terrible music.
@@mpls1982he doesn’t mean it’s actually mediocre, he means because at the time it was the mainstream chart music he didn’t realise how good it was until you compare it to current mainstream chart music
This is very true. In fact, the same trend is found in education as a whole, not just music. I've been playing guitar for 54 years, and even my ability to teach lessons has become all but non-existent. So, rant-on my friend. The trend has to change at some point... or ???
Great rant, Rick. (And you didn't even kick anyone off your lawn!) Grew up in a musical household in the 70s. Mom was a concert pianist, sister got a degree in flute, brother trumpet and I played clarinet, oboe, and saxophones. We all practiced at the same time in different rooms. It was either the worst sound in the world or the best. What I would do to hear it all now 50 years later. I couldn't imagine showing up for practice not having moved the needle on a piece. And not hitting the scales and long tones each day became obvious. Unfortunately, not practicing an instrument is not the problem--it's the effect of one. Perhaps there will be a shift back to a desire for personal growth through challenge and a desire for human flourishing again.
Not hardly. Like Rick said, " No one is willing to put in the work"
@@billohno You said not practicing an instrument is not the problem, it's the effect of one. Can you please re-phrase?
@@lynnegoesup Yes, I thought almost exactly the same thing. (Would you please explain?)
Just because an old man is yelling at clouds, it doesn’t mean he's wrong.
As another old man, I agree - clouds got it coming. They're the worst.
This man is yelling to other people that they are looking at his clouds the wrong way...
Just let people enjoy what ever shape clouds just the way they want. But no. The people are seemingly wrong.
@@mikewhitfield2994 Today's clouds just don't cloud the same way. Ever since McJagger told everyone to get off of his.
@@mikewhitfield2994 Apparently they're filled with data. Just not the same as in the old days.
All Clouds Are Bastards 😅
- First of all, more and more people are getting sick of Google search results. Google's been falling behind in search quality and more and more people are taking their "googling" elsewhere.
- Second of all, I reckon the vast majority of people don't use search engines to find music to listen to when they have iTunes or Spotify as an alternative. So the decline we're seeing there could just be the removal of the results looking for actual music, leaving behind only the people who have a question about the music.
- Third, I don't use Google to learn how to play songs. I use RUclips directly. Google Trends tracks this, but separately from web searches. If you look at RUclips searches for music, the drop is far less dramatic, though still present. Which leads me to
- Fourth... you're also kinda right 🤣
Good caveats, and right there with you on the conclusion 😂
One could use the same logic to argue people do not search for terms like 'music' directly. They probably go to a particular song or playlist or mix. As more and more people enter the internet one would expect growing in pretty much everything unless things atomize in those kinds of manners
Who googles "music" lmao
Not even people Rick's age do that anymore
That coming right after bragging about being more tech savvy than the commenters is hilarious.
Apparently 25% of people who did so back then
well, who googles "social media"? Apparently more people do.
@@fisk0 googling "social media" more these days makes sense, especially considering how big of a buzzword that is in the news these days. You can't do anything without hearing somebody talking about what some politician or celebrity posted on "social media" or how it's affecting mental health blah blah blah, or what counts as social media. People want to find out what's up with that. Taking raw stats while disregarding nuance and context is not thinking critically.
If people want to look up something about music, or listen to music, their search terms are likely to be much more specific and informed nowadays.
Preach it, Rick!!!! I'm 70 years old and agree 1000% with EVERYTHING you just said; also with your last video. Yes, innovative music is still being made in 2024, but the vast amount of today's music is mindless brain filler. Nobody will remember most of what is being played today five years from now, let alone fifty or a hundred years from now. On the other hand, the music I listened to fifty-five to sixty years ago (1964-69) is still being played today and is appreciated for the art form that it remains to this day. There is a massive difference between music then and now. It's the difference between musicians who wrote their own music and played every gig they could to hone their chops and wannabe musicians who don't put in the time (sometimes years) but are good at digital sound manipulation and kid themselves into thinking they are capable of putting out good music.
Plus music these days will not be as remembered or classic in 20-50 years time like the 60s 70s 80s classics we all hear these days are
Totally agree.
Well said!
Rick.... The sky is falling.
This has to be your best rant todate.
My 17-year-old and I just had this conversation this weekend.
The quality of music being produced is like canned meat ( spam ). You can survive on it but do you really want to eat it everyday.
The music industry has turned into a fast food market. You can pick a number one you can pick a number two a number 3 for and so on but you can't get a good home cook meal and you can forget about fine dining. The quality that they'll give you is too crappy singers and they call it a combo.
So what you are saying is Taylor music is spam.
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Nah that's different. Sure, her music is "spam", but at this point her music barely even matters, people go see Taylor Swift she and the show are "the main event" the music itself is secondary.
She just went to Sweden and people went absolutely crazy for her, she's not even that popular in Nordics yet people went insane for an American megastar. I almost never hear her being played in local pop radios and yet everyone was raving about her.
@ToveriJuri She isn't played on the radio? Tell me what it's like? It sounds wonderful.
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Not as great as you think it is... Turns out she's not the only one making "spam".
Not being able to find quality music is a skill issue.
Thank god I'm 74 and grew up in the time of the rock giants . That music era will live forever. Today's popular music can't compare with the music put out 1960-1979😊
Ok boomer
76 saw Zepplin, Black Sabbath,Hendrix ,Cream and so many more live. Still have original vinyl 100s. Have some modern music but it’s not the same it’s been pitch manipulated to be almost perfect even doing this to old rereleases why can’t they leave it alone
How would you know, you've limited yourself to missing insanely talented artists. Expanded your view, you might like some of the music that's been released over the past 4 decades.
@@greaseweeklygamesyou’re the problem bro
@@JohnHanson-r1z Check out The Warning, they are the future of Rock.
I don't dispute your point about interest in music but I would query your assertion about the data. How much music is being streamed on Spotify etc? How many users are there? That might be a more accurate way to see how much music people are listening to, even if it doesn't count the many who don't use those services. But I get your point but it just illustrates the likelihood.
So a big reason why everything is trending down is not because interest is lower (but I think it is). It's because no one searches on google to find artists. I totally agree with you but using google trends isn't a clear marker of enthusiasm of music. People find everything through other avenues like social media these days.
Valid point. But I think it would be fair to say that it's mostly older people who search for music of yesteryear. I do. But certainly not on Google.
Yeah, Rick should note this. Google trends isn’t a very good source for this argument.
I totally agree. People have specific apps (for example finding how to play songs) or go straight to youtube , spotify or streaming services to listen to music so googling music related topics and google trends is not the best data source to back up his claim.
"Keep the people poor and s t u p i d" - Dave Mustaine, United Abominations
I can't believe how many other comments I had to sift through to find this.
I agree with all of the points Rick made about music, but he's absolutely objectively incorrect using Trends as evidence.
To the original commenter's point, nobody Searches on Google for a song, they'll use Spotify's search instead. But, even more so, who specifically is typing literally "Art"? That is a wild way to try and gather metrics for your point.
I can tell you this Rick. I am 61 and truly miss the album format when as kids we put an album on and listened for our favorite tracks. All in a row. Now kids and really - all are spoon fed what we or they want us to hear.
When I was 29 I got married and heard Canon in D for the first time as our wedding music performed by a quartet of string players. I was blown away and shamed that I did not know this music.
You are more than correct on your assumptions that we are too preoccupied with frivolous garbage. But? RUclips has presented me with greater range of musicianship than I ever thought possible. For that I am thankful.
I don’t think I miss or don’t miss the album format, at 62, what I truly appreciate is the streaming format and independent artists. When the album and recording studio, radio stations where the primary delivery vehicles, they, mostly, had control of what we listened to. Consider the singer Raye - suppressed for years but her recording label and now, as an independent artist is fabulous. The issue with music appreciation now is that younger people have a lot of choices and alternatives….. I think we can all say that you sometimes make bad decisions when you’re young :)
When sound was not compressed and we had floor to ceiling amps and speakers. Wood cabinets. quality sound.
I was watching those early 2000's for 90's Love Songs commercials & I cried.
Me: "Where did powerful music like this go? I'm gonna write songs like those to bring it back!"
@@gluonjck63 The thing is… there’s still lots of (even mainstream) music that is designed for the album format. People get excited for Thursday nights when digital releases usually drop, and they can listen to that full album they’ve been awaiting for weeks before bed. I don’t think that’s as dead as people think it is, in fact, I think it’s becoming a little more popular in the past couple years.
I’m not sure why Rick is insistent on doing the Spotify Top 10 stuff instead of… you know… reviewing new albums like young music fans do.
Oh, my goodness! Pachelbel??? Awesome!!!
I would like to add to this conversation as a 23 year old by saying that I do not think it is a matter of not wanting to put the effort as in laziness. Art has become a commodity and is viewed as a background white noise or an aesthetic. It is something to feel the silence or to virtue signaling to specific subcultures / like minded individuals and not a way to communicate feelings or serve to sociopolitical change. And I don't really blame our generation for this fully. Us younger adults are bombarded with stress and the fear of not even being able to sustain ourselves financially. At the same time, in our education systems the arts as well as non STEM subjects are being presented as useless and people who decided to study them are being warned that they will be unemployed. And in general societal nihilism is at an all time high. This translates perfectly in the declining in music that needs effort to create or understand. Our generations are hopeless, disoriented and struggle to find anything to believe in from love to politics to an extend almost higher than any other generation before us. The easy access, the stress and our society's hopelessness drive younger adults to seek quick fixes like tik tok, and social media to forget what is going on around us. Putting effort to either create something or to understand something needs time and mental energy and we simply have none to spare especially when these things are promoted as useless since they don't generate any kind of income. You are simply going to listen to what is more easily available to you and in your memory so little pop hits from tik tok. Also, I love music and I try to make time for it in my life but sometimes when you study and work, you want some mind numbing to listen to while you do those things or relax. I love Tool but listening to them while I'm trying to study would drive me insane so Taylor Swift is a easier choice. But I do agree that it has reached an extent where the value and quality of popular music is very low and it is okay to sometimes listen to something less complicated.
What is truly puzzling to me is that many young people cannot distinguish the difference between the quality of good solid music and the quality of tik tok pop hits. We are bombarded with so much information that it is silly how little musical education people have, which I personally found out these days with the Dave Grohl -Taylor Swift debacle, where many younger adults did not know who he is and in all seriousness they said that he is bitter because he never had that type of fame (one of them while wearing a literal Nirvana T-shirt). It is a multifaceted issue but I really congratulate Rick for genuinely bring up this discussion because it should be seriously addressed in the music community.
" he never had that type of fame (one of them while wearing a literal Nirvana T-shirt)" epic, poetic irony!!
@@paxfinstad6787 when I saw it I thought it was some kind of comedy sketch and I laughed... turns out they actually did not know and then it became kind of sad.. especially when people in the comments were agreeing...
Content creators are in fierce competition with each other to get your attention. It's always going to feel like there's something you could be doing instead of practicing your instrument or exercising or whatever. What a crazy world for you to grow up in.
Some interesting points to consider.
Your generation doesn't have a monopoly on stress or security of your future. That has been every generation, and success is dependent on how you choose to handle the stress and insecurity. If you fail, it isn't because past generations didn't also endure the same, it's because you chose to be a victim.
I don't get the whole google trends thing. With all the streaming services available at this point, why would people still search for music on google? Of course those numbers declined since 2004, I wouldn't expect anything else.
I'm from the Boomer generation and I subscribe to some Music Reaction Channels in which young people are discovering and enthusiastically enjoying some of the great music that I grew up with like Motown, Stax, Muscle Shoals, and a whole bunch of classic rock, jazz, blues, southern rock, R&B and funk. It's really great to see them appreciate Jimi Hendrix, Creedence, Clearwater Revival, The Allman Brothers, Boz Scaggs, Aretha Franklin and others they have never heard or only heard snippets of in movies or commercials. This is one good thing RUclips has done. The only problem is how much they get blocked.
💯! I never thought I'd enjoy watching any reaction channels but seeing younger generations being amazed by music from earlier decades, music that I've loved for so long, is really enjoyable. Blows my mind when someone says they've never heard of Queen, INXS, or Dire Straits (just to name a few)! And then to see them fall in love with those bands, it's fantastic!
I've started doing the same thing. I just hope more and more make these discoveries.
As a guitar teacher and principal at a music school in Bavaria, I can say that TikTok and similar platforms are very popular with many of my students. Many of them watch short videos where musicians showcase their guitar skills. Often, they come to me with specific requests, wanting to learn what they saw on TikTok. Depending on the difficulty, I can either teach them the piece directly or they are motivated to practice diligently to master it eventually.
However, it should also be noted that in Bavaria, many children and teenagers mainly learn an instrument in musically supportive households. At the same time, there is a large portion of students who only play their instrument during lessons. This has always been the case and is not just a phenomenon of the new media.
(Dirk Olbrich)
I can only agree with that; however, it is questionable whether the advantages of TikTok outweigh the disadvantages.
I wish more people would see this comment, because you're really giving a much needed nuanced take.
I've seen numerous comments by frustrated music teachers here about how kids don't take their instrument seriously "because of social media". There have always been kids who were signed up to music lessons by their parents without having any real intrinsic motivation to learn it. This is hardly a modern problem, but it's just very easy to blame social media as some kind of monolithic root of all evil. If someone has intrinsic motivation, these short videos can be a huge source of inspiration on top of the music they're already listening to!
Truth. I took tuba lessons in the 80's, and must admit that many times I sat in the chair dreading the lesson b/c I would soon be exposed as having put in ZERO practice time :-(
@@who-n7e "in Bavaria, many children and teenagers mainly learn an instrument in musically supportive households." This is very true, for any household, anywhere.
I am almost 41 and I started taking piano lessons about 4 months ago. And it's freaking hard. Not just because I am older and learning and improving is way more work. But also because I just don't have the time or energy to play every day. I try to do it but most weeks I can only manage 30-45min three or four times. And it is frustrating and challenging but it also gives me another way to interact with music.
This channel is actually a big part of why I started doing it. I wanted to learn more about music theory and thought that actually learning an instrument would help me. Which it kind of doesn't as it isn't really my teachers focus.
When I was 35, I started taking vocal lessons because I always loved singing and I've always been really good at it. My teacher (who is an opera singer with a vocal teaching qualification) told me that I could have been an opera singer if I had started earlier. That would have been a miracle given how much I dislike opera and classical music in general.
But singing is freaking hard. It it way more frustrating than playing the piano. You learn all those techniques for posture and breathing and diaphram support and where to push and where to relax. But if you are not really in tune with your body, it's almost impossible to keep track of all of it and make it your own. A fellow student back then was a ballerina and she was amazing. My teacher pointed out a mistake and she fixed it instantly. I was so jealous.
in the end, it all comes back to the things our parents make us do in our youth and how they package it. I was forced to learn the guitar when I was 7 but all I ever wanted was to play piano - on the 5th floor of our rented flat back when E-Pianos weren't a thing.
However: Part of that course was 45 minutes of music theory every week. My guitar teacher used to shake her head telling me that I was the only student in probably 10 years who absolutely hated playing the instrument (I also never practiced) but was so eager to do the theoretical stuff.
Both my nephews had to learn an instrument and are still on it. One of them is very talented on the drums but he is literally what you pointed out: He's not really listening to music the way we were so there's no point in saying "How about you learn song XY?" And he seems to have no intrinsic motivation to get good, even if his drum teacher tells him that he is doing great and he could become really good...
Agree 100%. Part of the problem is that we have lost the 'physicalness' of music. What I mean is, there is no vinyl or even CDs to purchase and hold in your hand. (Yes, I know they exist, but virtually no one buys them any more.) When I was younger, you'd buy an album, put it on your turntable (which had its own wonderful physicalness), and lie on your bed ogling the cover art or liner notes or lyrics while the album played. For hours. It was a very sensory event - sight, hearing, feel. Now, people get their music via digital streaming and there is no physicalness to it. It is fleeting and temporary. Albums were permanent. I think that has a lot to do with it.
As someone who grew up with physical media, I agree.
However, it should be noted that, when that media first arrived, many people declared it was 'the end of live performances'. They were wrong.
I must assume that I'm capable of the same error. Especially considering that every generation tends to sacralize the eras and influences in which they established their identity and profane those that no longer reflect it.
Also most of the moments when we are hearing music is to accompany something, like walking, doing work, workouts, etc. Those moments where music felt like it needed its own moment instead of being a complementary thing to something more important is now a very rare thing.
Because it was indeed special. Being able to hear music wasn’t easy, specially in terms of variety - even if you were lucky enough to have a huge collection. Plus, indeed the cover art, etc. so very different from the cheap commodity it has become.
I was told I was old skool because I like having physical copies of the music I like.
@@Daniel__Nobre While scarcity can add value to things, it isn't the only thing that can do this.
Music can act as grounding for our first kiss, the loss of a loved one, a breakup, or, for that matter, any personal milestone. In these cases, it's often simply the backdrop rather than the focus of a moment.
I doubt there's ever been an era when it has only been appreciated on its own merits without distraction.
The medium and consumption methods change but people are still being impacted by music in the same ways and for the same reasons, and they're still sharing music as a way of connecting with one another. It just looks different.
Music has always been the soundtrack to our lives but not everyone prefers revisiting the soundtrack over watching the movie.
@@cosmickidd205 I've been told the same thing. Yet, I'd argue that the Hipster movement was primarily about recovering the comfort and familiarity of making things you could touch and physically share.
We ground ourselves in the material world. So, at some point, we find ways to root ourselves there again.
That said. I love being able to access all my favorite music from anywhere at any time.
The Internet is neither good nor bad. It's like money. It's just how you use it. You can do good or bad things with it.
Believe me, I'm 39 and I've been saying that music has been on a steep decline since the late '90s/early 2000s when I was a teenager.
There is only so many different songs they can come up with. They are running out.
Check out Billy Strings!
Yeah, however, there were people back then who said THAT music from that time was already part of the decline. And it most definitely was, you have a sentimental attachment to that time frame. Music from the 90s was mostly crap.
25 here, and I have witnessed the same exact trend.. There is nothing this guy needs to apologize for, he shared his opinion, which (in my opinion) is objectively true hahah!
Disco is what did it for me
"Using technology to fix bad performances."
PERFECT
Using technology for lack of talent as well.
if that was the case no one would be touring
But isn't this a good thing? Is it better to leave a bad performance...bad?
@@ezekielplumb4008 I suspect they're using the technology during the 'live' performance as well.
@@MichaelCRushno, it’s better to keep practicing and getting better to limit your bad performances. That way you won’t need the technology. It’s there to help but you shouldn’t depend on it.
You are a breathe of FRESH air, not an old man, stuck in the past. Thank you Rick!
We used to go play ball, basketball, football, baseball, be outside until we had to be home if the weather was nice. Young people are attached to their phones as if they may miss something, the internet has done this and I think the attention span is short because they want instant fixes of entertainment. Case in point shorter songs are the trend, TikTok is like a rabbit hole of amusement for many. Oh and music today is pretty shallow in the mainstream anyhow. Your video saying how we used to have to work to get our music, buy the record take it home etc. is true, now you can skip something and on to the next in seconds.
There's no reason to spend time outside today, you can be hit by a car, fall and wound your legs etc, be exposed to strange looks of other people. The internet is less harmful than spending time outside, change my view.