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The best thing about Rick is that he REALLY listens to people talking and to the music itself. He's not in his own world. He's engaged and active in the conversation and music at such a visceral level. Brilliant musician!!
He did finish Her sentence, But 2 greats on stage...Y not?
He’s a great teacher. That’s got to be a great quality for a producer. Like George Martin was for the Beatles.
He's mastered the art of being present and in the moment. He's old enough and smart enough to know that it's not all about him. That's an excellent quality to possess as a person.
@@robertakerman3570 She finished his thoughts a few times too! I think the point was that it's a very collaborative conversation. Everyone interrupts each other sometimes, and it can even be a helpful/natural part of communication.
Rick really knows .....Hendrix did this as well as all the greats.
The happiest life is one of collaboration. Whether it’s friends, family, or fellow musicians it is still individuals who bring out the best qualities of the other whilst working together. Two of my favorite individual channels joining together is a dream. Much love to both! Thank you.
Couldn't agree with you more. Their channels are amazing! I hope they do many more of these in the future.
@@MrWolfriver Agreed
These are two of the most thoughtful, helpful, and giving people on any channel!
Indeed
The first ten seconds hit on something that takes most songwriters a lifetime to discover. I'm truly blessed to be growing up with TH-camrs like these two as mentors.
Love, Love Rick and Mary together!! I am a mechanic by trade and a musician by hobby. Rick's series "What makes this song great", is like a mechanic taking something apart to see how it works: What makes it tick. And Mary's honesty, sincerity ,and love of music is always out front. Hope to see more videos of you two!
Well said! (Fellow wrencher here)
Could not agree more!
I’m a dentist btw…a tooth mechanic=D
"Beauty and the Beato."
Super advice from Rick.
The challenge is being able to find the balance between under-thinking and over-thinking your composition and/or lyrics. Finding that point is where the magic lies. This is a great video! Thanks!
The friendship and mutual admiration on display here is heartwarming. Whenever I see the two of them together on the thumbnail I always click. Life is fleeting and true friendships should be treasured and well kept.
The only song I ever sang as I walked out of the theater, after hearing it for the first time, was "Let's do the Time Warp again". An absolute classic, that.
I think purpose is also a very important factor when writing songs. Overthinking things is as risky and potentially harmful to the music as not taking enough time to develop it. So, being clear about what motivates you to write a given song can help you keep that balance. Thanks for the video!
I could listen to you and Rick all day. You have such a great presence together. Your operator video is one of the best I have ever seen. I love that format where you break down a song with your insight. Mary, thank you for what you do. Your videos are amongst the first I look to when I want a companion in my day.
It is truly a delight to listen to Mary and Rick together… I think my music comprehension goes up I just listening to these videos! Thank you both!
Way back in my youth, I played bass in a garage band. I'm not a great player, but I've always thought that I was an adequate bass player. When I was learning a new song that I was going to sing, I always practiced the vocal part alone with just me on bass. Vocal melody and bass line. I still hear bass and voice when I listen.
Tommy Immanuel is so gifted in choosing great songs to cover and in how he approaches the covers to express their melodies as the human voice might (another great Beato interview). Then add his improvisational genius… 🤯
Here’s my take. The simple stuff in music holds the emotion (for example the I IV V chords in country music). The complex stuff holds the interest. Great music is made from the dance between the two.
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Love seeing you with one of your favorite people. Just watching you take it all in is great for us to be there with you. Thanks for inviting us in.
So awesome to see you two together. After the kind words you had for each other, it's great to see you both together and collaborating. Two of my favorite TH-camrs.
Just wonderful to see you guys together.
Thanks a lot for your videos
So great to see these artists together.
Also, my basic take away from this combo; you never stop learning in music composition and performing.
Great work both of you. Very inspiring and fun to watch.
Good ol Uncle Rick is such a wealth of wisdom.
Discussion of the process and decisions of songwriting is absolute gold. You're both great to begin with but this is exceptional. I would love to see future episodes about the writing of a song from start to finish, with clips as new ideas and edits arise. Bravo bravo!
hey, great idea! I'm actually doing something like that in a FB group, if you're interested in a grassroots connection :) obviously, not as cool as these guys, but would love to meet you there!
Check out the podcast Sodajerker on Songwriting, lots of interviews with well known songwriters, focused on the creative process
@@fuglsnef so glad to see another listener here!
It makes me so happy to see the two of you together
I could easily watch/ listen to you two talk about this for hours and hours and never get bored, great video, thanks!
Great wisdom. We're always looking for pearls of wisdom to elevate our work. Thanks Rick and Mary, cheers to both of you.
Super cool to see you both together! Love it. Huge respect for both of you 👍
Fascinating to listen to your "shop talk" with the always good Mr. Beato. Thanks
I am so glad to see you 2 chatting. Love it
So cool seeing both of y'all together - y'all add so much to the world of music.
A really interesting conversation. Very relaxed, informative and inspiring discussion . Thanks.
I’m thrilled to see that you’re in Atlanta, while regretting that I’m no longer in the area. If you’re performing or doing meet-and-greets while in the States please put a link to your schedule. I’m learning all I can about guitar and music theory after subscribing to your and Rick’s channels.
So interesting to hear you both chat. A great double act....
So exciting to hear this!!!! Thanks for thinking about us little people ❤❤❤❤
Nice to see those two together! A real treat!
two of my favorites!. Rick, your explanation of this is brilliant.
The look of admiration in her eyes! hahaha Rick's really an amazing guy, excelent musician, have a great leveled head on his shoulder... Amazing to see you two together!
I just finished watching you and Rick Beato breaking down Jim Croce's song "Operator". Wonderful video! I love when you and Rick get together to discuss music. I was very interested to hear your views on the lyrics. I hope you collaborate with him on future videos.
The song that I remember singing as I left a movie theatre was "Always look on the bright side of life" from Monty Python's Life of Brian.
Two brilliant, passionate, likable musicians discussing their craft. 🤘
A nice trick, I think, for song writers is to look at a set of piano reductions of the Bach chorales. When I was in music school (a half a century ago) analyzing the chorales, I decided not to look at the voice leading or use Roman numeral analysis, but to look at just the names of the chords. So after I did a few chorales, I decided to play these chord progressions on the guitar because they looked kind of interesting. The results were quite exciting. Bach's inventiveness in his choice of harmonies might be good stuff for song writers.
my 2 favorite music youtubers together .... what a great day, what a great video (can't wait to see it in full length)
ditto!!!!!
This is an awesome vid, really informative and helpful info in here. Sometimes we just need to sit back and listen to advice, especially these two! Rick has so much experience and great knowledge in music, Mary has developed her own great style of playing and is fast developing into a really great musician. yep this vid made me smile, and most importantly listen to the advice! :)
Just saw your collaboration with Rick on "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)", I love both of your work and you're awesome together, keep it coming!
One can view it all as a burden of "so much hard work to do" or embrace the pluspoint of endless possibilities of creation offered in musical endeavor. Also, I love Mary's validation of the accessibility of a song. To me that is a key aspect to embrace. Art is the quality of communication. An accessible song may even be considered to be too simple, but it will likely communicate and be memorable.
Rick is so intelligent. It's easy to overlook that as he's talking about music stuff which we don't usually associate with smarts!
Love you Mary and love Rick. Great conversation.
Awesome, Mary and Rick in studio. 👍
This is just epically great advice. I'm working on a song right now, and this bass/melody advice is a massive help for me at the stage I'm at with the tune.
When a song is a pure expression from the human heart or soul , when you connect via the silver cord if you like to ne metaphysical and the energy flows through you then it doesn`t matter what combination of unique chords or alternate tunings , or key changes you use or don`t use
None of this matters because a song written from the heart or soul will always connect and touch people over a clever collection of "unique" chord progressions, key changes and alternate tunings
Great songs are from the soul and heart
You want to write one you need to learn to listen and connect
Some people are simply better at this than others
A great song writer is simply a conduit for this energy , the song comes to them from making this connection not how many unique chord combinations they know or if they can surprise Sting within 8 bars
Yes agree with alot of what Rick says, but I'm not sure Bob Dylan writes like that. I heard he was amazed at how long Leonard Cohen took to write his songs
Nah, it's not really that mystical.
It's science. Humans respond to strong Rhythm, Melody, and harmonies containing combinations of predictability and unpredictability. Music is a craft. Inspiration comes but it rarely gives you the whole thing every time. It gives you enough to start. Then you have to finish.
On top of that, you have to work even to feed the raw materials which your subconscious can then rework and furnish back to you as " magical inspiration," and then after the inspiration you must work to be able to get your hands / voice to perform it and record it.
Again, it is a craft. If you're doing it right.
Glenn Frey talks in an interview about living upstairs over Jackson Browne before either of them were known as songwriters, listening to him play the first verse of a new song twenty times, then the chorus twenty times, etc. It was instructive to me as to how these songs that we sing along to as we drive down the highway of life take work. LOTS of work... Really enjoyed this video!
He's the best! Great to have him here in Atlanta!!
Love to listen to the 2 of you discuss playing, writing, anything really. Listening to the discussion of the various songs and compositions made me long to hear you consider the music of Colin Hay. My wife and I recently had the opportunity to attend a concert he played, just him, 4 acoustic guitars and a microphone. He played, spoke and sang for over 2 hours and was extraordinarily entertaining. His musicianship is phenomenal and I never fail to come away from listening to him without experiencing something new each time. Thanks again!
Great advice! Enjoyed it! Love you all and your channels! Take Care!
I feel like I’m right there. Big Spender fan. She is just as dynamic as Rick in her own way. Thank you.
A fascinating conversation.
I was listening to Cortez the Killer last night and it's a song where, for me, great imaginative leaps happen. It is crafted but I'm not sure that this is what makes it great: almost as if taking a risk is the significant option rather than adhering to a template.
One of my favourite songs is Rafferty's Steamboat Row and that's a fromtheheartdirecttotheheart kind of thing. What I would say is that there are other roads to a great song that aren't necessarily about complexity.
The Sting album is excellent.
Really great advice!! Workshop your songs. I will definitely do that one.
Two of my favorite artists together❤ I was hoping you do more with the Mary Rick and you have so that’s just awesome! Enjoy this video Mucho!❤
Thx! I luv me some Rick; cool that you guys got together to chat!
He is a true teacher at heart. He is constantly imparting his knowledge and finds joy when that knowledge is reflected back to him through the insights and music of others. That feeling is a drug in and of itself.
The version of I Burn for You from his live album Bring on the Night may be my favorite song ever. Fantastic performance.
Love to see this so much. Can watch you two hanging out all day
I feel like putting together a melody and baseline is one of the easiest aspects of playing guitar. That concept also solidified for me while learning hand independence on piano where you play a baseline with your right hand and a melody with your left. On guitar it's also easy to learn on an easy song like simple man, where it just goes from C to G to A, so you're strumming C,G and A with your thumb while your other fingers are tickling away the other strings.
As primarily a writer of the written word for most of my life and now focusing on guitar, I really relate to how difficult it often is to make things seem easy. It’s an axiom in writing that the easiest passages to read, and the most flowing , often require the most work. Also, I could listen to you and Rick Beato talking about music all day.
Amazing! Thanks for this video!
a treat to see you guys chat about songwriting! I know I'd love to run ideas by Rick just like that :) the part about the bass line and the melody together is absolute gold. And of course we should suspend and add-nine all, well, OK, most of those chords ;)
I'm already subscribed to you, Mary, but it's really cool to see you with Rick Beato. Love collabs between talented folks.
This was the perfect blend of two of my favorite TH-cam channels. Incredible advice for songwriters thank you both and thank you Mary for bringing Rick to anyone who hasn't followed him yet.
I've always written with just a bass line and a melody but found it hard to produce around it because it already stood on it's own. There's production and there's composition - being able to make the right call in putting them together (all by yourself) is a rare gift... super rare.
Which is why collaboration is so empowering. As talented as John Lennon was, he was just one part of a once in a lifetime quartet. I’ve never met a musician who writes in a vacuum. Mozart was an anomaly the rest of us mere mortals can only gawk at. 😎
Two of my favorite TH-camrs together. Fantastic.
❤ my two favorite people together… How awesome is that❣️
Thank you, Mary, for showing this conversation with Rick.
A _very_ important suggestion that he brought up was:
"Play the melody and the bass line together and it should sound complete."
That is one of the techniques I was taught in composition (and analysis also).
Whether it be a string quartet, a chorale, a concerto or symphony.
A song can also benefit from this very technique. Why not!
Cheers!
ikr I seriously could not believe he said it so blunt like that... it would be the ultimate joke but I'm convinced it's real
I would love to see Rick create a songwriting course. I've seen him take others songs and just make a small change and suddenly it's so much better. Plus he has a number one song so there's that.
People that want to avail themselves of that service hire him as a producer, essentially. But yeah, a course would be cool.
I know it's not a formal "class" as such, but just check out his channels and go through his breakdowns of what makes a song great. He's done upwards of a hundred well-known songs, across a variety of genres, and it's basically the masterclass you're looking for.
@@elmoblatch9787 If you don't think Rick is an artist, you have no idea what you are talking about.
@@elmoblatch9787 He is absolutely an artist. He can improvise with the best of them and play note-for-note anything you can throw at him.
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Rick can write songs, play drums, bass, guitar, piano, professor in music, performed live and more.
What is your definition of artist?
*_E X C E L L E N T_* conversation, Mary. You two work well together. You willingly listen to Rick and lead him to teach what he's sharing here, rather than just sharing here what he teaches . . . not to put too fine a point on it. I loved this video. Bookmarked it. Learned from it.
All aboard the peace train listening to the beauty of humanity. Thank you.
Speaking of John Williams, I've always thought "The Imperial March" is one of the most evocative compositions ever. It could have been in any movie with an evil antagonist, or opera based on a Shakespeare tragedy. It sounds great played heavy metal.
What a wonderful, educational video!
you two should do a Podcast! I would listen to every Episode. the way you both talk about music really does inspire me
Two of my favorite YT creators!!❤
Another great video! A treasure trove of knowledge!
A thing I noticed is having either the chords or (but not both) the bass to ”preview” the next change by one beat or delay by one beat. There is one beat of dissonance that resolves immediately and is often very satisfying.
There was a documentary of
Sting during the Mercury
Falling Album where he was doing ‘I Hung my Head’
with the Memphis Horns
They had trouble playing the 9/8 Time Signature
This is great! Thank you, and Rick, too- love his educational/commentary. Especially like the bass/melody advice. I've been doing it on the advice of Arnold Schoenberg's books, but I forget. And whenever I do, inevitably I find something sounds unsatisfactory, play the bass and melody and end up working there for a long time.
This is so special. Talented and beautiful Mary chatting to brilliant and experienced Rick. I love it.
My current obsession in terms of (to me) complex composition with shifting time signatures is "In From Japan" by Madison Cunningham. I'm still trying to pick out the chord changes by ear before resorting to finding online chord charts. And yes, she plays it live with all the nuance and dynamics and not the least sign of visible effort. Just stunning.
As ever, advice to challenge and improve shared in an informative and inspiring way.
You two should record an album together The Spender Beato Project...yay!
Wonderful video and great information!
Another gem from two of my biggest TH-cam mentors! A real wake up call about what it takes to really be a great songwriter.. it's just not about catchy lyrics but the whole musical landscape behind it as well.. awesome advice and insight! I would love you guys to do a long Think Tank Workshop and break down a lot of Jimmy pages approach and how he constructs melodies and all of that stuff. From something like Since I've Been Loving You all the way up to Achilles Last Stand and of course Stairway to Heaven would really love to get both of your insights on the Wizardry of Pagey. That would be epic! BTW happy holidays to all! Peace, Bob M.
Love to see you and Rick having a conversation...
Let me start by saying I have the utmost respect for both of you, and am a regular viewer of your two channels; one day I may even get around to subscribing, and, ahem, sharing my compositions... I'm all for experimentation and pushing the envelope when it comes to songwriting, but, more often than not, simplicity wins out over complexity when it comes to writing hits. McCartney's Yesterday, now overly familiar, of course, is a beautiful melody over an effective but pretty orthodox chord progression. Sting, quoted in your conversation, can afford to be "avant garde" and experimental now, if he so chooses, but the songs that made him rich and famous have simple tunes, often with correspondingly simple backing: Every Breath You Take and Fields Of Barley, for instance. That's not to denigrate them; far from it. But they prove that you don't have to go out of your way to play finger-challenging jazzer chords in order for a song to be worthy of respect (and I speak as a huge Joni Mitchell fan). Neil Young is another favourite artist of mine, and two of his greatest albums, After The Gold Rush and Harvest, are made up of simple but hugely resonant songs. Just sayin'...
Rick's first comment surprised me because, as a bassist-singer, I have always crafted my bass playing as an outline of whatever song I'm singing. It's not just rhythm & tone (although it's that, too); the notes should outline the whole song. Some bass parts won't allow it as the may be only a pattern that everything else layers over, but usually a bass part will reveal an entire song especially with the vocal over it.
To hear Beato validate what I had been doing for decades is very refreshing.
@dylans voice Thank you! It's good to be appreciated.
Wow, this was really interesting! Wonderful insights I haven't ever thought of 🎶
Wow…two brilliant musical minds that dwarfs this drummer’s brain.
Pure gold this video
These interviews are priceless
It's very enjoyable to be able to eavesdrop on two professionals who respect each other. I probably wouldn't know about Mary if Rick hadn't recommended her in one of his videos, so I know he respects her talent.
Vital stuff Rick and Mary.....Thanks for your help
Thanks, Rick and Mary! :)
Great to listen to the wisdom of Rick and Mary ... I want to get into dabbling in Music ... not just as a listener and an admirer. Creation is hard. But so satisfying!
I love when my channels cross over like this. So much fun!
When 2 of my favorite TH-cam channels collide… the results are amazingly brilliant. (❤ 🙏) x (❤ 🙏)
what a Masterclass - wait....am i going to be charged for listening to all these insights!!! thank you both for sharing with the rest of us mortals :) Luv you both...muster ON!