ACOUSTIC GUITAR - What Everyone Needs To Know
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2019
- In todays Livestream we explore what everyone needs to know about the Acoustic Guitar. Topics for discussion are Strumming Patterns, Flat Picking, Fingerstyle, Hybrid Picking and Alternate Tunings.
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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...
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.
Steel frame- nicely said man!
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!)
Because the present copyright laws suck, as well as these copyright owners...
Well put
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.
😂😂😂
Don't forget to capo on the 2nd fret.
I thought Highway to Hell might work better to scare the pick out of there.
100% of 60% is 60%
60% of the time, it works everytime😂 anchorman
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
What a blessing it is to just jump on UA-cam and see someone like Rick Beato doing what they do, and the rest of us can apply what we need from it. Thanks Rick!
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.
Been playing for over 20 years on and off. Still sooooo much to learn. Part of why I love it!
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 UA-cam excels, and it’s people like you that make UA-cam what it is today. Keep up the great work.
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 UA-cam 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!
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 ✌❤🤘
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.
You Rick, are a guitar angel. Keep spreading the word brother. Love the content
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.
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.
Joni Mitchell is my Queen! 💛🎸👑
Joni is a genius.
I've read/heard her say she can't even remember her tunings. Something about that is awesome.
@@MaynardOwns Sounds like she made up a different tuning for each song.
I would DEFINITELY dig that!
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!
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.
That's the way I do it. Works 99.9% of the time. (Nothing's perfect)
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!
I'm stoked for this video!!!! Thank you Rick!
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!
I learned so much from the first 10 minutes of this. Thanks!
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"
Happy to buy the Beato Book and support the channel. Thanks Rick, great channel !
You're awesome, Rick. So glad I found you.
Tell your friends.
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
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?
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.
Thank you Rick for everything you do.
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!!!
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.
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!
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
Thanks Rick
Thank you Rick for this really wonderful lesson ❤️
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.
Loved the lesson and here comes the sun was almost there
The acoustic version of Wild Horses is also amazing. On the Sticky Fingers Deluxe album.
Don’t forget Carter Picking, where the melody or hook line was picked on the lower strings alternating within the chord patterns
Great lesson, thank you! More of these, please!
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.
Great video/lesson. I was glued to the screen.
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.
Waiting for lunch in Los Angeles and watching the stream. Keep up the awesome work, Rick.
Thanks for the tips! Glad I found this channel.
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.
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...
Brilliant lesson! Many thanks.
U r awesome dude...great teacher..so much knowledge and attention to detail
Great acoustic tutorial!...Thanks Rick!!
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
You're gonna have a million subscribers soon Rick and you earned every single one, including mine.
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.
You are a true American treasure Rick
Great stuff man...as always!
Love your videos please keep up the great work!
Thanks for this video Rick.
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!
Can’t wait for the pick removal video!
“What makes this pick great”
Thanks Rick. You are the man!
Hey, just so you know, Great Job! I've reffered you to Many people. You are The Best. Run your race to Win!
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)
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
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
Hoping this video will let me watch tonight. I still don't know what I need to know about acoustic guitar.
Start with the technique at 11:50 and gradually work up from there to more advanced techniques based on the songs you like.
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
Subscribed. Thank you. On my 2nd week of the 5th decade of playing. Got a new fender cd 60 😉
Arthritis has set in on my left thumb..
Starting to notice it in my right thumb also.
Getting older is fine, but it does have its drawbacks.
Still playing thankfully...😆
go vegan ! XD
@Jim Steele My biggest fear actually!
@@aracknido I'm vegan but it runs in my Family. So I'm a bit worried about that
Try liquid Turmeric every day. Electrons, electrons, electrons!
That guitar has a wonderful big boomy tone. Now I want one.
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.
Another great video Rick
Great video, Rick.
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!
@Rick Beato would absolutely love to hear you do a segment on New Standard Tuning, Robert Fripp etc.
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).
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.
I like your authoritative approach👍
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.
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.
Hybrid picking section reminded me of early Dave Mathews stuff very cool
What a solid acoustic guitar player 👏
Thanks. Love your guitar.
Another older player here. I’m quite surprised that newer players aren’t exposed to these techniques.
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
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
A video dedicated to the use of guitar harmonics and the use thereof would be fascinating.
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!
Love these. More acoustic gtr vids.
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.
It’s always fun watching your live streams. It helps remind me that there is still talent left out there.
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. :-)
Thanks again, Rick!
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!
So Rick hear me out. After 4 years of faking my way thru as the 2nd chair guitar in my HS jazz BAND I entered the local JC. I only took two semesters of traditional college-level music. I'd been playing guitar at that point for 8 years mostly Rock however my father's friend had studied with the Andres Segovia and had kindly showed me quite a few techniques and other cool stuff. He opened my eyes early on so I was trying to learn how to play just about everything. I decided to attend Musician's Institute back when it was probably a little different that it is now...30 years ago. Showing up at school in '89 there were mainly shredders
(Obsessed steve vai evh srv etc)
and Euro Jazz dudes (obsessed with larry carlton steely dan and yngwie?!) which is like being in a bad 80's version of the musical West Side Story...you were either a shark or a jet if you get my drift. Your Channel is everything I miss about total immersion in musical study. I went from struggling in a composition and Theory based music program- where I failed sight singing...twice! - to going to a totally performance-based program. And what was the most popular show every student watched besides David Letterman? It was Night Music with David Sanborn. The SCHOOL library had every episode on tape we all talked about it and loved it...it brought the tribes together like nothing else... I think it's high time you find some kind of network or cable or internet channel who can put your teachings into a performance type show format and therefore pay you what you deserve and they can pay for all the clearances and the rights to all the music that is played based on standard broadcast BMI ASCAP licensing agreements Etc. Google has no understanding truly of what it is you're trying to do therefore you fall into the Trap of being demonetized because yes people who author compositions deserve to get paid just as you would want to get paid for your compositions. Forgive me it's been a long day but I do think it's time for you to find a better platform for your gift of teaching the world music from the guitar players point of view.
Who else could interview Peter Frampton and Larry Carlton and make it fascinating to GUITAR players, musicians and non musicians alike but you sir? It's time to leave YOU TUBE in your rear view mirror. I just wish I could suggest your next step. Perhaps someone has an idea? And yes they are cutting music in school's every year because football is proven to help any small town's economy.
Love your Channel keep it up
Thanks Brian! Great comment and one that gives me a lot to think about.
@@RickBeato THANKS Rick!
Quietly kicking myself that I didn't start playing when I was MUCH younger.
Me too, I played a bit as a kid in the 70s and then did a couple of years military service. couldn't take a guitar out on patrol. Now in my late 50s I have started up again - the years haven't been kind :)
My aunt, who is wealthy, bought a $75,000 baby grand piano at the age of 60 and started taking lessons. She left her business to her children and by age 62 was doing alright. She is 85 now and still plays everyday, and it brings her great joy. Try not to beat yourself up too much, and focus on how much joy music and your guitar bring you. In your next life you can start as an toddler!
@@The6pruz I guess that's because you adhere to Hinduism.
@@kenz2756 bro what lmao
@@TheApolloOrder He believes in reincarnation, that's Hinduism.
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!
This was great!
As allways, a Great video!
Very informative Rick
Rick, sending you greetings from Africa-Love your channel. Please do more Rush on What make this song great. How about Xanadu?
Yeah,Rush is cool!
Temple of syrinx :-)
YEEEESSSSSSS!!!
"The Wizard" by Uriah Heep is dropped D. Classic song!
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!
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
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.
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 😉.
Thanks, Rick!