Rick Beato Season 2017, Episode 12: Rick Beato - SOUNDING OFF with Music YouTuber ADAM NEELY

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Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - Music of "The Dark Knight"

In this episode I explore the music of "The Dark Knight" soundtrack by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. I focus on the many ostinato patterns (continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm) that are woven into the beautiful and moody action packed cues. The churning percussion that moves in synchronous orbit with the ostinato string patterns of all different tempos. I will be doing a Hans Zimmer solo episode coming up soon.

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Even Beethoven Had Licks! How To Make Other Peoples Licks Your Own

In this episode I take a great "lick" from Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto and make it my own. I will show you how to play Beethoven's and then how I change it into a modern 21st century lick.

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How To Develop a Musical Idea From Scratch - Recording and Arranging

In this episode we explore the how to develop a musical idea. I will take you step-by-step through the creative process of how I come up with, develop and arrange ideas for a film scoring cue or just the musical examples for my videos

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Fortunes of Hard Work: Why You Should Never Give Up

In the spring of 1980 something happened that was to alter the course of my life forever. I have told only a couple of my closest friends about this and no one in my family has ever heard this. I thought i would share it with you. Thank you for being here for me!

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How Rediscovering Rock Music Led Me Here - A 24 Year Overnight Success

This a story that like the one in "Fortunes of Hard Work" most people even my close friends don't know about me. It is the story of how I rediscovered Rock Music in my late 20's and how the journey took me to creating this channel. This is my 24 year overnight success story.

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What Bach and Charlie Parker Had In Common

In this episode of Everything Music we will explore what Bach and Charlie Parker had in common which was octave displacement. It is a way for you to make your melodies more interesting and more intervallic. It will also give your lines much more interesting shapes.

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The Steve Vai Interview

The is the premiere of my new show called Sounding Off with Special Guest guitar legend Steve Vai. Today's show features Steve discussing topics ranging from the Music Industry to Frank Zappa to Polyrhythms and Nested Tuplets! Steve was hired by Frank Zappa at age 18 to transcribe everything from lead sheets to orchestral scores. The bulk of the work Steve explains was guitar solos and their accompanying drum parts. Frank played all the guitar and Vinnie Colaiuta was the drummer.

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Major Label Record Deal?

Here is the story my major label recording career. I got signed for the first time at age 36 and it was a disaster of epic proportions. Be careful what you wish for.

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AYDIN ESEN Interview on Sounding Off with Rick Beato

This weeks Sounding Off features Turkish Pianist/ Composer Aydin Esen. Today's show features Aydin discussing his concepts of melodic and harmonic language, the importance of flow in improvisation and how his concept has evolved over the past 30 years of performing. Check out the video called Aydin Esen and the Art of Improvisation - A Musical Gift • Aydin Esen and the Art of Improvisati...

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The Mark Isham Interview - Film Scoring and Solo Career

In this episode of Sounding Off we are talking with Film Composer Mark Isham. Mark will tell you everything you need to know about the job of being a Film Composer. From the ideas to all the technology associated with it DAW, Temp Music, Orchestration and the Recording and Mixing process.

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The Dennis Chambers Interview

This episode features legendary drummer Dennis Chambers who sounds off about his Polyrhythms, Feel, Drum Tuning, Set Up, Gear and tells some hilarious stories about his fabled career. I even played him one of his own drum solos where he explains how he conceptualizes Metric Modulations and Polyrhythms.

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Rick Beato - SOUNDING OFF with Music YouTuber ADAM NEELY

In this episode of Sounding Off I talk with Music Theory YouTube Sensation Adam Neely. Adam is a bass guitarist and composer working in New York City. He runs a popular educational YouTube channel where he explores unusual and interesting topics in music and bass playing that might not normally be explored.

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Mark Lettieri of Snarky Puppy interview on Sounding Off - Rick Beato

In this episode Snarky Puppy Guitarist Mark Lettieri Sounds Off about his Playing, Guitars and Gear.

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Victor Wooten Interview on Sounding Off with Rick Beato

Victor Wooten is here with us today to Sound Off on being a musician, songwriter, author and educator.

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The John Petrucci Interview

In this episode of SOUNDING OFF we talk to Dream Theater's Guitarist John Petrucci. Here is a bio of John:

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The Jeff Berlin Interview

In today's episode of Sounding Off Bassist Jeff Berlin!

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The Jordan Rudess Interview

Voted “Best Keyboardist of All Time” by Music Radar Magazine, Jordan Rudess is best known as the keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire for platinum-selling Grammy- nominated prog rock band, Dream Theater.

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The Rudy Sarzo Interview

Rudy Sarzo is a professional recording and performing artist worldwide for over 35 years with such groups as Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, DIO, BOC and many more. In addition, Rudy is the author of the book "Off the Rails" which chronicles his time with Randy Rhoads during their Quiet Riot and Ozzy years.

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The Scott Henderson Interview

This is a video of my podcast with Tribal Tech founder and guitarist Scott Henderson.

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The Steve Hunt Interview - Playing With Allan Holdsworth

My guest on today's SOUNDING OFF is American jazz pianist and composer Steve Hunt. From 1987 to 2003, Steve performed, toured, and recorded as a member of Allan Holdsworth's band. Several of his compositions appear on Holdsworth's albums. On Secrets (1989), Hunt is credited with composing "Maid Marion", and "Joshua". On Wardenclyffe Tower (1992), he did "Dodgy Boat". On Hard Hat Area, he helped to write "Prelude" and "Postlude". On the album Then!, which was recorded live in Japan, he helped with "Zone I", "Zone II", and "Zone III". Tracks from these albums are included in the compilation The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock.

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A Day In the Life of Rick Beato 2017

How I come up with my videos - What I do all day

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How To Program Drum Grooves

In this video I'll teach you how to program and read basic drum grooves.

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What It Takes To Get Signed | Industry Executive: Jake Ottmann

In this video I interviewed Jake Ottmann, who is Senior Vice President of A&R at RCA Records about the state of the record business and what he looks for in new talent.

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Basics of Music Theory: Part I

This video is the first in my Basics of Music Theory Series. In this episode I discuss intervals, triads and keys.

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How To Play Radiohead Songs | Why I Love Radiohead

In this video I talk about and demonstrate why Radiohead is one of the greatest bands of all times. I teach how to play excerpts from "Airbag", "Just", "Let Down", "Everything In Its Right Place" and "Daydreaming".

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HAVE NO REGRETS

In this video I share my philosophy on music and life in general and talk about why its important to not have any regrets.

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The Beatles Secrets Revealed | How to Play Songs of the Beatles

In this video we learn how to play "Norwegian Wood", "Here comes the Sun", "Strawberry Fields Forever" and decipher the opening chord to "A Hard Day's Night".

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Rick Beato and Aimee Nolte Sounding Off

My good friend Aimee Nolte and I sat down last week to discuss our journey that eventually led us into the world of YouTube Music Channels.

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50's Hollywood Style Orchestral Arranging

In this video we discuss an old arrangement, I did of the tune "When you wish upon a star" with a special focus on voice-leading.

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Gary Husband - Drummer and Keyboardist Sounding Off Interview

In this episode I interview English Jazz and Rock Drummer and Keyboardist Gary Husband. Gary is best known for his work with two of the greatest guitarists of all-time Allan Holdsworth and John McLaughlin. He is one of the few musicians that is true virtuoso on two instruments.

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Music Composition: Dissonance = Emotion

In this episode of Everything Music we explore the concept that Dissonance = Emotion. This is Part 2 of my film scoring tutorial.

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Chester Bennington Passing | My Thoughts on Linkin Park

I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of Chester Bennington, an incredible singer from one of my favorite rock bands: Linkin Park.

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Apple: It's Good If You Like CRAP

I'm fed up with Apple.

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Reading Comments from my Apple Rant

In this episode I read comments from my Apple Rant and discuss Ageism on Youtube.

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Do You Djent?

What is Djent? It's a term used to describe a kind of rhythmic chugging of the guitars in progressive metal music.

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The Mother of All Chords (really)

The mother of all chords is a chord that contains all chords within it.

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The Light and Dark Colors of Minor

In this video we discuss the various colors of minor modes. From the intense brightness of Dorian to the depths of despair of Hungarian minor and all shades in between.

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The Synyster Gates Interview

On this episode of Sounding Off Synyster Gates guitarist of Avenged Sevenfold. Here's a Bio of SYN

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The Greg Wells Interview | Grammy Nominated Producer

Greg Wells is a multiple Grammy nominated record producer, songwriter, musician, and mix engineer in Los Angeles. His songs have appeared on more than 85 million albums. His credits are Katy Perry, Keith Urban, Twenty One Pilots, Adele, Pharrell Williams, Grace VanderWaal, Mayer Hawthorne, Greg Holden, Rufus Wainwright, Holychild, Theophilus London, Timbaland, OneRepublic, Deftones, Otep, Pink, Kid Cudi, Burt Bacharach, k. d. lang, Mika, Sir George Martin, and the Count Basie Orchestra.

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Why I Love Tom Petty

In this episode of Everything Music we celebrate the life and music of one of the greatest American songwriters Tom Petty 1950-2017.

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Composing For Video Games | All You Need To Know

In this episode of Sounding Off I am joined by Brian Schmidt who is the founder and creator of GameSoundCon. He was the 2008 recipient of the Game Audio Network Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Brian has been creating game music, sounds and cutting edge game sound technology since 1987.

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Introduction To Post-Tonal Theory | Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Berg

This is an Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory. The concepts of 12 Tone or Serial Music will require a knowledge of terms and concepts that may be unfamiliar to you and your compositional tool-box. This will help to begin down the road of understanding composers like Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Berg, Webern, Babbit, Cage, Eisler and Dallapiccola.

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Audiophile or Audio-Fooled? How Good Are Your Ears?

In this video, we explore the differences between MP3s, WAV, FLAC (lossless), AAC and whether you can tell the difference? or if it even matters? Discussion on mixing, listening, monitors and audion file formats.

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Why Record Labels STILL Suck!

Here is my take on the current state of music business.

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How To Beat Apple At Their Own Game

Here's what I did about my Apple problem.

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Marty Friedman Sounding Off with Rick Beato

In this episode of Sounding Off I interview guitarist and friend Marty Friedman about his new album 'Wall of Sound."

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Introduction to Fugue

Fugue is a musical compositional technique made popular by J.S. Bach in the 18th century. In this episode of Everything Music we explore the basic elements of fugal writing.

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The Four Chords That Killed POP Music!

Thanks to Dan Hannon and Codi from BRYTLY.

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Is The 10,000 Hour Rule Myth or Reality?

In his 2008 book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell argues that success is tightly married to opportunity and time on task. He states that it takes approximately 10,000 hours to master something. In this episode I examine whether there is any truth to this.