I don't know why anybody would DE-monitize these videos. They should be paying YOU for the promotion. Many of your viewers were not even born when these songs were popular. If I was an aging musician (I am) I would love somebody to sing my praises to a new audience. It took a real musician to make it back in the day. The groups, their labels and estates should be honored that you show off their mastery to people (like me) that may not have listened closely enough the first time. You're the best. Thank you...

@MaynardOwns

5 жыл бұрын

Yup he has a a video about that. And he doesn't mind that he isn't making money. It's more about their greed that bothers him.

@artiet5982

5 жыл бұрын

Steel frame- nicely said man!

@WilliamSilva-dq6zj

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed... they are like new to me again and suddenly im playing all these old tunes easier and appreciating them more! Thanks for taking the time, sharing the knowledge and love of these tunes. (And big thanks on recording!)

@jhouse770

5 жыл бұрын

Because the present copyright laws suck, as well as these copyright owners...

@mikemiller4838

5 жыл бұрын

Well put

What a blessing it is to just jump on KZread and see someone like Rick Beato doing what they do, and the rest of us can apply what we need from it. Thanks Rick!

I’m around the same age as Rick and it’s so true that we grew up hearing and playing all these techniques simply as part of the music of the Times

You make understanding the songs really fun. And I can neither sing nor play past GCD on a guitar. But I love music. From America to Yes and Beethoven to Stravinski, music is awesome.

Thanks Rick - that was really great. I’ve been playing for over 40 years (gosh that’s hard to believe). It’s true - you develop skills over time just trying to replicate the tunes, without necessarily having learned the term for that skill. It’s great you are sharing your years of expertise with a an audience of all ages. This is truly where I think KZread excels, and it’s people like you that make KZread what it is today. Keep up the great work.

So I'm a self taught musician, strictly acoustic (just a preference) and been playing about 10 years. Proud to say I utilize a few of these pretty regularly, but wow I have learned so much from this, and on all your videos. Thanks for this dude! You explain things so well and play beautifully. Always appreciate seeing your vids on my recommend ✌❤🤘

Been playing for over 20 years on and off. Still sooooo much to learn. Part of why I love it!

Happy Sunday, I’ve been playing for about a year and eight months now and sometimes it’s good to go back and review basic concepts from somebody who you have established trust. So after watching you for the last year and eight months, I just wanted to give you a shout out and say thank you. The pain in my fingertips lasted many months… despite playing every day, but that was never an issue for me at least ….I knew not to stop just like when I studied my silver flute with open holes, and eventually played in the army band many decades ago. Needless to say your presence here on KZread has been fabulous for more people than you can imagine unless you’re a absolute savant….. I wish you and your family the best as we transition into the waning months of 2022!!! All of your interviews have been fabulous and I hope many elementary music school teachers are sharing your site as additional source of insight & inspiration. … Stay healthy Rick, so the world can enjoy you for as long as possible!

You Rick, are a guitar angel. Keep spreading the word brother. Love the content

Mr. Beato, This video is one of the best of your videos I have seen. Been following you for awhile. Would love to see more like this one! Thank you!

Learning to master the muted downstroke, up open strum of “Old Man” has served me tremendously for both acoustic and electric playing. It’s so rhythmically interesting and can be applied to many, many songs.

When I hear finger picking and acoustic, two people come to mind for me. Ian Anderson and Mark Knopfler. Learning Jethro Tull songs in particular helped me a ton with learning different techniques.

Thanks for the discount!!! Picked up the Beato Book. Missed it last Live stream after seeing how well you explained modes. Can't wait to dig in. Peace

Such an awesome video thank you Rick. Classic skill demonstration along with your great talks is so priceless man. I'm crap at theory but def gain more knowledge from your quick run throughs of different things. Not to mention you kick ass at guitar!!! Big thank you again brother!

Happy to buy the Beato Book and support the channel. Thanks Rick, great channel !

Steel frame totally nailed it on that comment. Last night was the first time I picked up my acoustic and did some thumb picking for a while and today the skin on my thumb is totally worn down. It was worth it because music is the greatest release of them all. A very informative explanation of the subtle textures that can be achieved with different approaches to the acoustic guitar, thank U!

PRO TIP: Shake the guitar upside down while humming Stairway to Heaven and the pick will fall out 100% of the time 60% of the time.

@kyleemmenegger5338

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@YTSlide

5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to capo on the 2nd fret.

@pete5668

4 жыл бұрын

I thought Highway to Hell might work better to scare the pick out of there.

@alessandropedini3841

4 жыл бұрын

100% of 60% is 60%

@Jheassler

4 жыл бұрын

60% of the time, it works everytime😂 anchorman

I'm amazed at Ricks mastery of his fretboard and pick control. Seeing him struggle with that one scale made me think "Welcome to my world Rick"

I'm stoked for this video!!!! Thank you Rick!

Hey Rick, love the show! Quick thing...try shaping your thumb pick to what shape/size you want by just dragging it across your carpet quickly. The heat & friction work surprisingly well. Works with most pick materials. I don’t use thumb picks either, but was able to turn one of those same crappy ones into a usable one this way...

First video I ever watched was WMTSG 'Peg' by Steely Dan. I 've been getting back to guitar for a year now after a long lay off and I just finished my own intro to barre chords. Of course I realized after that I would need to learn some finger style because many of the songs I love to play incorporate it. And viola, here you are with a great intro to finger picking! I'm taking that as a sign and going to the site to get myself some merch. Keep on keeping on with this channel. You have one of the best approaches to music that is available on YT.

Great video Rick, it took me back to when I was learning to play guitar. I am so surprised though that people don't know these techniques. For me they are so much a part of how I play guitar and how I learned to play that if I didn't use them, I wouldn't play the guitar. Back in 1963/64 I learned to play guitar with Peter, Paul and Mary, the Kingston Trio, the early Beatles, Stones, John Denver etc. There is nothing quite so satisfying as sitting down with a record and figuring out a particular technique or a complete song. The most important source we had, as folk singer, other than our records was the folk song "Fake Book". Do any of you remember those books?

Thank you Rick, thank you so much, for taking my inspiration high, one day i will get there where you are, meanwhile thank you 4 helping me figuring out these beautiful art, thank you!!!

I learned so much from the first 10 minutes of this. Thanks!

Thumb picks. Shape of thumb picks - I cut, shorten, shape the thumb picks to the shape that I like using cutters, nail clippers, file, sand paper etc. Thanks Rick great video as always.

This is great. It so important to know all of the cool picking style. The guitar becomes so much more expressive and rhythmic. Thanks again

@hoytmccloskey5967

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rick

Rick, if you want to get rid of arthritis try rubbing some tumeric essential oil on the trouble location, $20 through ebay, and you should be on your way. If the location has lots of muscle over it, it may not be able to penetrate through to a joint but a finger/thumb should present no problem. If someone has Rick's direct email, please see that he gets the info so he can play without pain.

I've been playin the axe since late 1992. Got some Spanish guitar classes first then binned it and jumped onto the electric. Got sort of career and even gained the bits of respect after a while. Then in 2013 my daughter was born, so I quit my session musician job and went on random daily job contract with the acoustic being nearly the only choice. No practice, just strumming chords, watching YT vids over the nights and slowly learning things I have seen. 3-5 yrs later I have gained a lot in music theory, chords and voicings use, re-shaped my coordination, put my fretting hand in the right position, learnt some picking and fingering patterns, got stronger tone and almost battered the stage fright. It would never happened if this was not for the acoustic. This gives the guitarist a solid base. If you don't own one - get it immediately.

Thank you Rick for this really wonderful lesson ❤️

Thank You for another great video! So many good reasons to put time in on an acoustic guitar, it's my preferred means of practicing or learning new tunes but also just for sitting on the porch or around a fire playing for friends, it's a lot more "group friendly" than hitting them with a stack of amps. :) That said, it's also nice to be able to plug in and tear it up on the same guitar, so having an acoustic-electric is kind of the best of both worlds... if you mic up the sound hole and record that, along with the powered output running through an effects box, you can play a piece 1 time and end up with 2 very unique recordings to use in a mix.

You're awesome, Rick. So glad I found you.

@jivanbansi9640

5 жыл бұрын

Tell your friends.

Great video, Rick. Can you discuss the importance of Michael Hedges on the evolution of the acoustic guitar? An analysis of his groundbreaking work, “Aerial Boundaries” would be insightful. Thanks!

Thanks Rick great content as always......I use those thumbpicks a lot and I just file them down until I have the right amount of length....Works really well for me.

Thanks for the tips! Glad I found this channel.

Best way to get a pick out that I've found: Shake around until you see the pick under the sound hole, then flip the guitar over and it should fall right out. HTH. Love all your stuff.

@mg23gerard

4 жыл бұрын

That's the way I do it. Works 99.9% of the time. (Nothing's perfect)

Waiting for lunch in Los Angeles and watching the stream. Keep up the awesome work, Rick.

Great video/lesson. I was glued to the screen.

Great lesson, thank you! More of these, please!

Thank you Rick for everything you do.

Don’t forget Carter Picking, where the melody or hook line was picked on the lower strings alternating within the chord patterns

Honestly someone took the time to de monitize this mans fine work for showing the upmost respect and appreciation for the creation of timeless art from our past is a good representation of the situation the industry has become because not only is rick amazing and talented he is doing an important service for this current generation and the world of music and aspiring future and past musicians

great. i never thought that analytical about it, but yes, to play I needed to learn all this techniques. growing up with folk and rock certainly helped, a lot came just naturally or through countless nihgts and parties...

The acoustic version of Wild Horses is also amazing. On the Sticky Fingers Deluxe album.

you are such a great player...those jazz riffs..heaven.. I would love to hear you play some jazz I'm amazed every time I listen to you I am more amazed it's great it's great to have you thank you so so much

I always played acoustic here and there but were owned by friends... I bought my first acoustic after 20 years of playing electric. I play it almost every day now. Great ideas come from that.

You're gonna have a million subscribers soon Rick and you earned every single one, including mine.

U r awesome dude...great teacher..so much knowledge and attention to detail

Brilliant lesson! Many thanks.

I don't know if anyone has yet made this comment, but to get the pick out from inside the guitar, I've found the best way is to be really subtle- turn the guitar upside down (sound hole facing parallel to the floor) and very slowly, gently slide it around... works way better than frantic furious jiggling and shaking (took me ages to figure that out, ha!)... I'm enjoying your videos, this one's especially useful for me, thanks!

Love your videos please keep up the great work!

Great acoustic tutorial!...Thanks Rick!!

Great stuff man...as always!

Can’t wait for the pick removal video! “What makes this pick great”

Loved the lesson and here comes the sun was almost there

Thanks for this video Rick.

Ah here, Rick... You can't be serious uploading this video now when it's like 2am here.. ah well, I guess I have to watch it :D You are the best!

Damn dude... I'm a post novice guitarist and I basically just need new shapes and chords to learn and practice. I plan on watching your fingering over and over. Some beautiful sounds in there!

Would really like if you did a whole show on Joni MItchell. With over 40 different guitar tunings it would be fascinating to see you dissect her music and progression over the years.

@MsCygnusX1

5 жыл бұрын

Joni Mitchell is my Queen! 💛🎸👑

@ransbarger

5 жыл бұрын

Joni is a genius.

@MaynardOwns

5 жыл бұрын

I've read/heard her say she can't even remember her tunings. Something about that is awesome.

@DustInTheWindAZ

5 жыл бұрын

@@MaynardOwns Sounds like she made up a different tuning for each song.

@elephantgop

5 жыл бұрын

I would DEFINITELY dig that!

To get the pick out by shaking you need to... A) turn the guitar upside down B) shake the guitar up and down C) move the guitar toward and away from you, or left and right, so the sound hole gets under the pick while it's up in the air. You've got the bracing to get over, so you have to throw the pick up with the guitar, then move the soundhole over, under it. Hope that helps

@jasonbeale6875

10 ай бұрын

Or get a hole saw and cut a hole in the back of the guitar where you think the pick may be. Repeat process until pick falls out

I’m so stoked to find your channel Rick! I am a gigging musician, and have been looking for ideas to expand and vary our sets. Your vids have already given us many ideas! Thanks so much!

About the thumb pick. I believe there is a learning curve. Tommy Emanuel uses a Thumb pick and fingers without long finger nails, and it sounds fantastic!

Subscribed. Thank you. On my 2nd week of the 5th decade of playing. Got a new fender cd 60 😉

I'm trying to change my default mode to hybrid picking at the moment. The change is going better than I thought it would (pinky is not as dumb as I thought it was) , and there are some benefits I didn't consider at first. For instance, as you showed, you always have the option of just using the pick on the high strings. Also, you can sometimes use the thumb on the low strings (or the edge of the thumbnail, together with a bit of flesh). And you keep the option of using things like the backs of the finger nails, etc. It's potentially very versatile. (I find I've got a better left-right-hand connection, finger picking, so some of the choices transmit across to the other hand)

Hoping this video will let me watch tonight. I still don't know what I need to know about acoustic guitar.

@bradford_shaun_murray

5 жыл бұрын

Start with the technique at 11:50 and gradually work up from there to more advanced techniques based on the songs you like.

Thanks Rick. You are the man!

Great song using alternate tuning, LED Zp III, “That’s the Way”. Learned The Rain Song in standard tuning in the 70’s only to find out it uses alternate tuning years later. Hell no not going to learn it again. That would mean setting up my ol turntable. Yea, talk bout that. How we learned songs.

Hey, just so you know, Great Job! I've reffered you to Many people. You are The Best. Run your race to Win!

Another older player here. I’m quite surprised that newer players aren’t exposed to these techniques.

I started on acoustic, and everyone was learning Mood For A Day, and hoping to figure out The Clap at some point. The acoustic part at the end of The Ancient as well.

@Rick Beato would absolutely love to hear you do a segment on New Standard Tuning, Robert Fripp etc.

Great video, Rick.

With thumbpicks, you can treat them like a factory nut on a guitar. File it down until it is the size and shape that is comfortable for you.

Best way to remove plectrum from sound hole: A #2 Pencil with eraser is best, I keep a Home Depot Carpenter pencil in all my guitar cases to lube my nut with graphite when changing strings and use one of these. You bounce the pick to under the sound hole. You stick the pencil inbetween the strings and press it to the pick. You then while holding the pick in place with the pencil turn guitar over sound hole down and pull pencil away and the pick ALWAYS falls out. I have used pens and chopsticks before in a pinch ;-P

Thanks. Love your guitar.

You are a true American treasure Rick

Hi Rick, I have just recently started watching some of your videos that happen to come up with my subscribing to "guitar tricks". I like your informal and "fire side chat" style. I started playing when I was 8 years old and from the time I was about 20? until age 75? I practiced classical style guitar with a relatively inexpensive set of guitars. At one time I had a separate guitar in four places that I live as it is too difficult to fly with a guitar. I got crippling arthritus in my left hand and also have ET which has reduced the accuracy of picking with my right hand and I gave up playing for two years and lost my callouses but a little over a year ago (I just turned 82 last week) I resumed playing because I missed it so much and have learned to work around my handicap. I recently purchased a superb capo called a Thalia Capo that you can change with your right hand "on the fly" that eliminates the need to do bar chords which I can no longer make clean. I found the section you gave on alternate tuning (especially the open E) very interesting but fear that trying it would screw up my long time famiiarlity with regular EADGBE tuning. ONE thing that is annoying (and I suspect it is NOT your video but my internet) there are sections where your video freezes and only your voice and the sound of your voice continues. I am at a Summer Cottage where we do not have a fast internet and what I do to avoid the stop and go of some streaming video is to just pause for a while untlt the send can stay ahead of the play. BUT THAT DOES NOT WORK FOR YOUR VIDEO!?? -Richard

@MaynardOwns

5 жыл бұрын

The freezing I something happening in the video not your internet. It's the first time I've seen this happen on one of Rick's videos

Hey Rick, this is one the best videos I ever watched from you, thank you so much! One question about Norwegian Woods: first you show how to isolate the flat-picking notes from the chords, but then - the last time you play - it sounds and looks like you're aiming for the single string but letting the higher ones come along as well. Am I wrong? (If anybody else has the answer, feel free to enlighten).

Have to say if anything i love watching you play Guitar. You're instantly in to the groove/ feel of everything you play.

With guitar face up, get pick onto the label on the back of guitar, then flip guitar over fast, and pick will fall out of the hole.

Hybrid picking section reminded me of early Dave Mathews stuff very cool

This was a good one, thanks Rick... the thumb arthritis starts with smart phones, mine started with angry birds, went away for years, started again with the iPhone 10x ... try not using your thumbs on your phone!

Another great video Rick

Very informative Rick

A video dedicated to the use of guitar harmonics and the use thereof would be fascinating.

Great video I learned something today. Also arthritis is an inflammatory condition so eat more fruits and vegetables or better still eat nothing but fruits and vegetables 😉.

i use a toenail clipper to trim the dunlop thumb picks then smooth it with an emery board to get them shorter and more useable

I've got an acoustic S&P Pro Mahogany that is setup for DADGAD and I seem to always play it as to regular tunning. That drop G is a great tip. Thx Rick. P S. Rick you're great! Keep doing what you do and cannot thank you enough for all you do here.

Love your channel and have learned so much! (I'm a vocalist who is forced to accompany herself, sadly.) I just ordered The Beato Book and can't wait to dig in. Thanks for sharing your gift. :-)

A long video and you never lost my attention once great tutorialmakes me want to kick my self for not sticking with my lesso ns when I was 10 here I am close to your age and pounding it out on my Martin d-28

That guitar has a wonderful big boomy tone. Now I want one.

@johncspine2787

3 жыл бұрын

I=X+1 is the formula for the ideal number of guitars to own where X is the number you currently have and I is the ideal number to own.

Julia by the Beatles/John Lennon is a great fingerpicking song, as is Different Strings by Rush. Love to see more content like this. Some cool dropped D songs are Dear Prudence and Good Times by Steve Vai/DLR.

I don’t think people understand that guitar players used to just sit and play everything for hours a day. So while yes he’s played these things a million times, music has been this guys life. If you want to be good at any instrument you need to make MUSIC YOUR LIFE.

@TheWrestlingFamily

5 жыл бұрын

It’s always fun watching your live streams. It helps remind me that there is still talent left out there.

@ 9:45 in video.... I also recommend Mario giuliani's 120 studies for right hand. I've actually found it online free. I've got an old copy in standard notation I keep for the memories, but u can find it online free and in tab now. I recommend the book to people looking to get that right-hand (picking hand) going. Can get a little monotonous sounding after a few dozen studies because basically it's variations of a 3 chord progression - the same one... LoL so get your capo ready. No need to finish the book either. Your right hand will amaze u even after u nail the first few

Hey Rick, it IS possible to fight someone of those borderline copyright strikes. If you want to take on that headache and commit to getting a lawyer, I guess that's something you'll have to decide. But I know that people who fight those borderline ones often win. So that's something to look into if you wanted. But if you'd rather avoid the hassle and headache, that makes perfect sense to me lol.

Sorry if someone already said this... stand up, hold the guitar flat (sound hole facing up) shake a bit until the pick is directly beneath the hole (often on a label) then count to three and just spin the guitar 180 degrees so the sound hole is facing the floor. Once you have this technique down it is nearly automatic.. Good luck

Thanks Awesome as ever Rick. Have they completel removed the other video you refer too? Or just (just!!) demonetised it? Is there a link? Many thanks.

I don't know if someone typed it yet but to get the pick out of acoustic guitars I shake it so the pick is directly under the soundhole then I use a pencil to pin it down(eraser side of course), then carefully flip the guitar down. Release the pencil and the pick should drop straight down.

Thank Rick for sharing great stuff Would You do a video for elector guitar Especially on left hand muting and right hand muting God Bless

I prefer the sound of fingers over a pick most of the time, especially when playing individual notes.

I like your authoritative approach👍