"- The following is a conversation with Rick Beato, legendary music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello, and piano. Rick, with..."

"think, an incredibly fun and diverse beginning to your music journey. I heard somewhere that one of the things that made you fall in love with music was listening to guitar solos, some epic guitar sol..."

"- So here, going to Perplexity, Django Reinhardt was, of course, a jazz guitarist and composer, active mainly in France, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists in jazz history. - So,..."

"pre-bebop. So bebop was a kind of jazz that was also influential on you in your own life journey. And it's this complicated, legendary kind of jazz that was very influential on the music that followed..."

"- We're gonna return to Joe Pass. We gotta go to Dylan. You mentioned Dylan. I guess that's in part one of the origin stories of you putting out videos into the world, is the early videos you did with..."

"people... There's a bunch of people listening to this that are curious about how they can start in playing guitar, maybe even playing piano and maybe maybe playing other instruments. Although guitar, ..."

"- So what was the role of bebop jazz in the history of music? It seems like it was influential in your life. Another guy you had an incredible interview with Flea. People should go listen to that. Was..."

"... you know, there's differences in the structure of the different bands. But usually, like, the bassist has a vibe to them. I don't know if we can put words to exactly what that is. There's a kind o..."

"- I have to go back to our, the beginning of our conversation. What do you think are some of the great solos of all time? Can we put a few into consideration? You have a great list on top 20 rock guit..."

"27 Club? A bunch of the music greats died at 27. Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse. - Kurt Cobain. - Kurt Cobain, of course. A big part of music history is linked to drug..."

"- Uh, on the songwriting front, you mentioned a story about Elton John recording. So he's one of the legendary songwriters. But yeah. You've met him, and you know something about the process of his, u..."

"- Same here. - Uh, there is a lot of interesting stuff that came out of that, from that conversation. One is the distinction between heavy metal and hard rock. - Yes. - Which is very interesting. Of c..."

"my one of my, maybe the music guest that's a dream guest is Tom Waits. I've wanted to talk to Tom Waits for a very long time, and I've gone through different periods of... You've met me at a point in ..."

"frontmen in history of music? - Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. - Freddie Mercury number one, probably. - Steven Tyler. - Jim Morrison. - Jim Morrison? - ... - Yeah. Roger Daltrey. Um- - Well, we have ..."

"didn't really know the personal side of Beethoven until I saw this movie called Immortal Beloved. It's an excellent movie with, uh- - Gary Oldman - ... Gary Oldman. Just a really... it's a masterful c..."

"- Every famous songwriter is influenced by Bach. They are. The greatest composer of all time, the greatest musician of all time. - Even Sting and Dominic Miller said they go to Bach even for, like, pr..."

"- All right. We have to talk about this a little bit. You made a bunch of videos about it. There was a moment in time, it still goes on, but there was a moment where really people were freaking out ab..."

"you have this video breaking down Sabrina Carpenter's song Manchild. And you use that as an example of building up people's intuition about the music business and how the music production for these po..."

"Okay. I have to ask you about this complexity that you're facing on a basically daily basis. I think it's a challenge a lot of YouTube folks experience, but you're just so viscerally experiencing it b..."

"Um, how has Spotify changed music? Sometimes we highlight the fact that they changed the nature of music and that it's the scarcity is not there. But also, a lot of it's like every kind of music is av..."

"I told you offline, I think having multiple guitars is cheating, but whatever. No, nobody agrees with me on this. I only have like one... I do have some side pieces but one main... The greatest gi- - ..."

"- By way of advice, you started your YouTube channel in your mid-50s and found incredible success. You've had essentially multiple careers. Is there some wisdom you can extract from that? - So my theo..."