Becoming a Musician...An Unlikely Story
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2022
- in this I discuss my unlikely journey into becoming a musician.
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Hi Rick, I’ve been watching your channel for quite some time. Above and beyond your musical knowledge and expertise, which is impressive, I firmly believe that your real appeal is your humanity. There’s a reason why you have so many friends and so many UA-cam followers. What a gift you are to all of us out here.
Cheers
Jim
I will be 60 in December. At our age, we have seen a lot of good times and difficult times too. I appreciate the story of your mother. No one loves you like your mother. My mother is gone too. Will see her again some day. Thank you for a great watch. Really enjoyed this one
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I really hope someone else wouldn't love me like my mother did.
I really do.
For me it took a while to realise I was in love with music. When I was 8 I started music school and I hated it. By 13 I had freaked out seeing my best friend play punk rock songs and heavy riffs with a Yamaha Pacifica and a 100w Marshall and I immediately dropped out of classic music school and saved for my first crappy guitar. Learned fast but never took it seriously. It wasn't until university, when my 2nd band was looking for a new singer that I just said "hey, what if I try to sing and play at the same time?". It gave a whole new meaning to my existence. Singing was my hidden power since the age of 2 and I didn't know it because I was too shy and afraid to be a front man. I never looked back.
Happy Birthday Rick!! Been with you since 15k subs!! God Bless many more Birthdays and videos.🎉🙏🏼👊🏼
Happy birthday Rick, not only are you a great musician and teacher, you're also a great storyteller and learner. Thank you for all these videos.
Live forever Rick. God Bless and keep on trucking.
Big fan and subscriber here in the UK Rick. I am absolutely NOT a musician, but my 14 year old (today!) is a very talented guitarist and I'm here for him. I've learned SO much from you and that helps me to be able to speak his language. Thank you.
I love your channel. I believe you deserve a Grammy for the contribution you have made and continue to make. They should have a category just for channels like this. That’s my opinion anyway. I’m 61 and I’ve learned so much watching you. I too feel the same as. I did when I first got into music as a kid. Keep on keeping on!
That's actually a really good idea.
Cool story, Rick. I started playing instrument at age of 12 because of music by Depeche Mode, so the first was synth, then guitar.
❤️🧡💛
YOU are a beautiful soul Mr Beato.
Thank you for sharing the story of your musical history and your family.
Thank you for everything you do.
Love your channel
I almost always enjoy your Reminiscing w/Rick "episodes"!
Their is something in music that some of us cannot abandon entirely. I'm 61 years old, whenever I reach the age where there's a zero (0), I told myself, " I will have to stop loving music & then devote myself to mainstream job. But, weirdly, there's always something that happened that it leads me back to loving it....
Happy Birthday. Your channel always offers me something I can apply to my playing and arrangement. Appreciate all you do Rick.
Happy 60th Birthday Rick! You are so genuine, I love that about you! Makes learning FUN again. God bless you!
Thank you for sharing your insight and experiences. Love your channel and what you do, Rick.
Happy belated 60th Rick! You're an inspiration to an amazing growing community. The content is always world-class and to the point. You're a top-notch educator!
Rick, so great to listen to you describe all of these events. Fascinating, touching, inspiring. Thank you.
Happy birthday Rick. Thank you for all you do and God bless.
Thank you for being you and making me feel like you were talking just to me.
God bless you
Happy 60 Rick! I hit 60 4 months ago. It’s not that bad.
I enjoy your channel and what I’ve learned from you playing my guitar. I also enjoy your comments reflecting on same music group with together.
Happy birthday Rick. I enjoy watching your videos, especially interviews with the greats.
Thank you for this Rick! Came across your channel a couple weeks ago and I’ve been wanting to become a musician just like you but I have never played any instrument or took any music lessons. You’re a massive inspiration to me and I can’t thank you enough for all your content 🤘🏽
Happy Birthday Rick ! and Thank you Rick for sharing your story and also for encouraging us all to share classical music with our young people! I honestly cant wait to play Bach (and Vivaldi) on my family’s next road trip! They will be captive audiences ! 😊
A wonderful story Rick... Very nicely done. The world is a much better place with you in it brother.
So glad I found your channel Rick! Love hearing your stories, & hearing you talk about music. My dad was a DJ, and we always had music going. I'm so glad I was exposed to all different kinds of music.
Happy 60th. Great video. In all my years I've never met a musician who didn't like Bach. Universal and timeless. You're an example of talent, hard work and enthusiasm for music. It's inspiring.
Love your videos Rick, and I don’t think you realize how influential you are. You inspired me to learn music as much as any musician that we share interest in. I’m about to hit two years of playing guitar and piano and it’s been the best decision of my life!
You rock Rick. I've always enjoyed this channel. Cool to hear more of your back story.
Love ya, Rick. I hope you had a happy birthday!
Enjoyed your show today. Very sweet to hear your history and how it leads to where and who you are today. Thank you for sharing.
many happy returns of the day.happy birthday rick.🎁🎊🎉
Rick , you know you have had a blessed life with a great family ... I really enjoyed your story of you affair with the guitar... tyvm
Rick, age is a path we all walk, that's what makes life beautiful. I am grateful to have discovered your channel. I hope you keep your channel going past your 70s.
Just listened to the acoustic version of Never Be the Same. Really good song. You’d never hear that on the radio today. Happy Birthday , Rick💕
Happy Birthday! Love all of your shows. I am subscribed.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
I love life stories like this.
You really are an amazing musician and I really am so glad that I subscribed to your channel.
Thank you for doing what you do!
What I like most about you is your sincerity. I wish you a long, healthy and productive life with your family, friends and followers.
Incredible video Rick...what a mensch!!!
Thank you Rick. I appreciate you!
Happy Birthday Rick , thank you for your story
Brilliant Rick, a lot of your family stuff resonated with me personally and my guitar and family background...
I love your stories Rick. So talented. That's why the good and the great love you too.
Thank you Rick. A very interesting story, warm personal and inspiring. It takes a long time to mastery. I am 70 and now teaching myself music. Dealing with the meaning of crotchets, intervals and Tabs. A long road ahead and time is not on my side. I am looking forward to the day when Beato Book 4.0 no longer intimidates me. But, I am enjoying the process or journey. Campfire guitarist or Master does not matter, just the love of the music.
hey happy 60th birthday Rick. All the best and have a great weekend 👍
My high school orchestra changed my life completely… I owe everything I’ve ever learned to my teachers. Mr. Garza and Mrs. Lindsay
Happy B'Day. Keep on trucking.
I find myself watching more and more of these life stories. Love it.
Happy Birthday Rick!! And Thank You for doing what you do!! As a 54 (55 in June!!) Year Old Hard and Heavy Rock Music Lover that started playin' the guitar at 11 years of age, sir You filled that so seemingly forever existing gap between folks like me and The Music we Love!! Sir, Thank You!! You Are a Legend to quite a few of us!!!
I am so grateful to have found your channel Mr. Rick. Means more than you’ll ever know.
Happy Birthday Rick!!! 🎂
What a story. What a life.
We all are so fortunate that you choose to share your talents and enthusiasm.
Happy Birthday, Rick! I love my Beato Book. I print 10-15 pages at a time and go through it with my 13 year-old son….
I had finally subscribed after being a non-subscribed viewer for quite some time now. I didn't log in to UA-cam or subscribe to anything in several years. I enjoy the reminiscing and your journey to become a musician. Sometimes I watch your videos just for the comforting, familiar aspect of it. Sorry to hear about your mother......she would undoubtedly be proud of what you've accomplished on your UA-cam channel.
God bless you, happy birthday…
My mom was into opera and musicals and Frank Sinatra. My dad was a big jazz head. I got into his collection of 78s, especially boogie woogie piano. He listened to everything, shared his love of blues with me too. The only rock albums in the house was Beatles records. My parents liked them but my older cousins actually mailed some of their albums to us. Lastly, I had my bar mitzvah and thought I would never learn all the notes for the singing. About 2 months in, I started doing much better. Also as a learning tool, the rabbi made a cassette of the music for me to study. After the service when I did my 20 minutes and the other kids 20 minutes who was sick, my mom later asked me if I wanted guitar lessons. Making it through the service gave me the confidence to take lessons and I studied albums and tapes to learn guitar.. Imagine my surprise years later discovering the modes I used in guitar were also in the Hebrew prayers. Rock on Rick, you make music fun.
Rick, as a fellow musician I enjoyed your story very much. I could have listened all Day. Dont worry about the 60 thing. I have a few on top of that and as you know things remain pretty much the same. Well, at least they seem to. Good luck to ye. Keep on doing what your doing. It works.
So moving: your words about what your mom meant to you and her death. Standing here so choked up. You're a great communicator. She would have been so proud of what you're doing, Mr. Beato.
“I’m getting private lessons, and I’m never practicing.” 😆 I’m taking private drum lessons right now, and I can relate, sadly. I also took private piano lessons as a kid and never practiced. Of course my reasons for not practicing as a 48 y/o man are very different from my reasons when I was a kid. Not distracted by cartoons anymore, just by dad life.
Exactly. Always working on new things and the excitement of working on tunes- is exactly like i was. 14 year old getting blisters!!! Lost my mom and dad 3 and 2 years ago. Majored on the bass but love to play the guitar. Be well sir!!
I love your story, young man!
When I was growing up, music seemed like just a natural part of life. I had an older brother and sister who played; I had a community with a town band and a drama guild; I had a school where music was taught two or three times a week. And I had a church where I learned singing and harmony, and heard wonderful music every Sunday. At 65, I'm still playing jazz and rock, and I am grateful for all of these traditions, and it breaks my heart to hear how much we have to fight to keep them alive. My wife and I worked hard through the nineties and the Noughts to support music at the local level, raising funds to buy a grand piano and other instruments for the school for example. I encourage everyone of a 'certain age' to work to protect music programs throughout the community, for the sake of our children, and our grandchildren.
Happy birthday sir!
Happy 60th Rick. I'm heading towards 50 this year. Good luck with hitting 3 mill 😃
Happy birthday for yesterday Rick🤘🏻
Why did I become a musician? Back in the late sixties, early seventies, with no internet, you'd buy an album and you generally had no idea about the band outside the music. The only info was on the album cover along with photos. I remember buying Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs when I was blown away by Day of the Eagle. No photos, not much info from the album. I thought Robin was a female guitarist. Just because the name, Robin, could be a girls name. Point being, you had to use your imagination back then. There wasn't much info on bands. Not much in print or TV. After wanting to be a drummer, I heard my first Grand Funk Railroad album, the red one. If he could play like that I knew I could! My first guitar was a Gibson SG Special because I saw a photo of Pete Townsend playing one in a Junior Scholastic magazine. Now folks have the internet for everything. Photos, info, music, tabs, crazy!
All the albums I had back then, How cool, so lucky we are by happenstance the opportunities we receive whether we knew it or not back then.
It wasn’t a whole lot different than the 90s in that regard, at least compared to these days. I started playing bass guitar in the 4th grade in ‘96 after discovering geezer butler through the mighty BS CD I stumbled upon at Media Play (which eventually turned into Best Buy). All I had was that cd case with the little pamphlet inside to figure out whatever I could about them. It left a LOT to the imagination at the time, which I think is missing these days in the terms of creativity.
Happy birthday Rick!
When I first stumbled on your channel, I got the impression that your’s was mostly a classic rock type channel. Which was worth the subscription.
But this video has me even more determined to get you to try and listen to my current favorite band: The Dead South.
One of the musicians plays celo.
At least two of the musicians had gone to school to be teachers. The celo player moonlights as a structural engineer.
While at first blush, they get pigeonholed as a bluegrass band, their EP Easy Listening For Jerks pt 2 gives you a sense of what music they listen to when they aren’t playing their own stuff.
The boys are currently back home in Canada before resuming their concert tour.
Happy birthday Rick i will be turning 62 in august so we are close in age im not a musician but i have been watching you since EVH died and you are really amazing with your most amazing musicians thank you.
Wendy Carlos “Switched on Bach” did it for me when I was in high school…then in college I took an intro to music elective and fell in love with Mozart… My first love was always engineering but music has always been a part of my life. In the late 70’s/early 80’s I remember a bumper sticker, “Music is basic-keep music in our schools”. I absolutely believe music in necessary to feed our souls, our minds, and our hearts. Keep on keepin’ on, Rick!
Happy belated birthday Rick. I'm not too far behind you at 58 and like you the music bug bit early (clarinet at about the same age.) Went to college for music education but my life's journey veered into technology. Still love music but haven't played in quite a while. Really enjoyed the Brian May interview and looking forward to your next videos.
@16:00 and throughout, Rick, I would SO love to sit with you and relate with you about our childhood and how we discovered and were able to explore and develop our respective inner hearing and performing what we could just do because we heard it from day one. My media became saxophone, singing and clarinet. I will contact you, this is primal. -Dave
Enjoyed your story Rick. I've always been intrigued by music since a young child. To this day I've never took a lesson nor read any music theory. I have learned from watching and mostly listening trying to emulate.
That’s cool. Glad you were able to convert on a music career. That’s a huge accomplishment, I’ll always be a musician but not a pro, feel awesome. 👍
Happy Birthday, have a good one.
Happy Birthday Rick!
My dad used to listen to Chuck Mangiones music when I was in grammar school so I decided to play the trumpet (for some reason not the flugelhorn) and that was my start into music - obviously I switched to the guitar in my teens as jt was way cooler than the trumpet but still Chuck Mangione is deep in my heart
Chucks trumpet sound was awesome.
My mom helped produce a "Friends in Love" concert with the Utica Symphony Orchestra back in the early 70's in New York. With the rock scene very heavy at the time my head was spinning after seeing him perform and he remained a favorite of mine to this day. I was in a drum corp and played a french horn/mellophone at the time. I also played guitar it was cooler. I dropped my chops and never looked back. Today my love for music is all over the spectrum although Jazz/blues is where all my idols developed from.
Check out DareAngelMusic’s replay, below… I’d never heard of Chuck Mangiones before -SO MUCH new stuff to learn here on UA-cam 🥰
i listened to chuck mangione as well when i was introduced to him back in the day and he was amazing.
@@BeesWaxMinder 1977 Feels So Good was his big hit that was all over the radio and earned him Grammy.
Happy Birthday, Rick!
Musings of a journey. Always interesting how one event leads to another. And suddenly there is the "Path".
Happy BD
It won’t get any better than this…..authenticity…..I started to play guitar when my father put on our Django Reinhardt LP……I was 5 ….
Soon as you said Chuck Mangione; Feels So Good started playing in my mind. I believe I have the vinyl too.
Great story! I saw your earlier video where you mentioned auditioning for the jazz guitar program. Good to get the history prior to that. Nice that your school and family were so encouraging ofmusic. I always felt like I was doing something somewhat disreputable by playing music. I'll vouch for the typing skills; I think it was the most useful class I took in high school, though I felt like a dork taking it ;-)
Lucky man, getting a speech by Chuck Mangione. Bet that “felt so good”! Greetings from the UK Rick. Happy Birthday!
So many similarities though my son is the cellist. Music ran through my mothers side of the family including her playing beautiful piano by ear. I started there and settled on guitar mainly in the early 70's. The Mangione's, cousins of Chuck had the dry cleaners two blocks over from where I grew up in Niagara Falls. I just wish I had music in my main school years but it didn't stop me from getting some plaques for my walls. What a ride huh?! Once again Happy 60th!
Happy Birthday Rick! 🎂
Happy Birthday!
Many parts of your story I can really relate to. Also at the same age (13), I heard an orchestra play for the first time- and it was Bach. In the St Matthew's Passion there is a small part for young choir boys to sing in the opening. I was in that. My school put the production on, it must have been terrible; the musical standards of the players could not have been very high. There were a lot of outside people called in though, not just teachers and students of the school. But it still blew me away and left such a lasting impression. It was a defining moment. Something about the string players all playing together and the oboeists, very striking. The loss of your mother I can really relate to, my father died in similar circumstances.
Love your story telling Rick...from a fellow (former) Stone Mountaineer. I don't have a musical bone in my body but I'm still drawn to your channel
RB: I Love hearing those childhood stories about music- we all have them- some have gone on to be pros, others fans, hobbyists, it's all great. Music is in the heart! Reminds us to practice and not take anything for granted, life is fleeting. Love your channel
@P¡nned By Rick Beato•• You're awesome- keep up the great work!
Alles Gute 🍀 zum Geburtstag 🎂,,! Tolle Gitarrist , Tolle Musiker ! Tolle Mensch !
Bin auch 1962 geboren.
Gruß Andreas ( Germany )
Ich fürchte Rick hat dich nicht verstanden, haha! ;-)
Es kann aber auch sein, dass er alles gut versteht. Jedenfalls komme ich auch aus dem Jahr 1962 und bin vor zwei Monaten 60 geworden und auch ich wünsche Rick alles Gute zum 60. Geburtstag!
@@sipsun8 bin auch vor 2 Monaten 14.02.1962 geboren
Alles gute für sie auch
Gruß Andreas
@@andreashaimann7244 That’s great! I too was born on the 14th ... but a month later ... in March! Eigentlich wäre meine Sprache Italienisch, denn ich lebe im Tessin, am Luganersee! Best regards, Andreas, to you and dear Rick! Arrivederciiiiiii! Luca
@@sipsun8 Guten Abend,, sipsun8“ Habe nicht geglaubt
Das sooo ein Spitzen Musiker
Und so eine Kapazität, wird mir ,einem Bedeutung losen
Kleinem Menschen Antwort
Schreiben . Hat mich sehr
Gefreut ,, Danke 🙏
Viele Grüße Bleib Du und deine Familie Glücklich und gesund.
Andreas
great to hear your stories.
My Brandenburg Concertos CD (Deutsche Grammaphon recording on original instruments) was constantly on a loop while I studied in late high school and university. There was just something about the way everything fit together so beautifully that drew me in. It was uplifting without being intrusive, musically interesting without heavy emotion. Somehow both perfect as BGM but also endlessly fascinating, being intricately woven and wondrous.
Red Raider Pride!
And a Bomber, too!?
Ithaca is quite a place.
Great stories, Rick. Big fan.
I remember starting on baritone in 5th grade, and like you, didn't practice too much. But in 7th grade, I switched to trombone. Same mouthpiece, same bass clef, but it was smaller, and easier to take on the bus, and then I could sit next to a girl on the bus, and THAT was a game changer! Played all through school in concert band, stage(jazz) band, and marching band(street). Loved it, but still didn't practice too much. Playing 5 sports and having 3 GFs didn't leave much time. Lost my Dad in 97 and my Mom in 2016. You're a great communicator, and I hope to get another PRS Custom 24 some day, to complement my Mk. III 1x12, Koa, EVM, 100 wt., EQ, road cased Mesa Boogie. Might've gotten it from Joe at Northfield Music.
Happy Birthday, Rick.
The reason Rick connects to all different assosications of music is his background and experience in classical music the roots baby! 🏄🏼♂️
I have always loved music. As a child I was classically trained as a vocalist and my grandfather taught me the organ. He was an amazing musician. He was self taught but he would play these intricately complex improvised pieces that were mind blowing. The equal of any of the great composers. He started my passion. More than anything I wanted to play guitar but I grew up in a small town with no guitar teachers. Guitars were also expensive back then. You didn't have a huge range of guitars back then. So it wasn't until I moved in my late teens and started working that I could purchase a decent guitar. I bought an early 60's Aria Diamond (an ES 355 copy). I taught myself how to play. I then joined a band and played professionally, writing my own original songs. That was 25 years ago. Now I teach guitar, song writing and vocal performance. I now have 15 guitars that I've picked up over the years. In fact, I just got an archtop with a Florentine cutaway (an ES 175 copy) for my birthday. It was my dream guitar. Music has always been such a huge part of my life. It's seen me through good and dark times. I can't imagine it not being apart of my life.
A great walk down memory lane 👏👏👏
I'm not a musician, but I've always loved a variety of music, and learned to play the guitar badly, but I've just turned 65 so can relate to the looking back thing :) I love your channel Rick, and can't imagine anyone watching but not subscribing
Wow, I can't believe you are from Fairport! I also grew up there- in the subdivision next to the high school (FHS). I'm a few years younger than you, graduated in 1987. Went to Martha Brown junior high. But I agree... music was very important there. I think that is why I am such a music nerd... ;) Love your channel.
very intersecting story of yours.really inspiring to become a musician.