Beato Book Review

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I bought the Beato Book as a pdf well before the Online Interactive version and I found it great as a musical enyclopedia. I have some theory knowledge but I'm a bad notation reader. Rick has helped me join up a lot of the 'dots'.

Rick's Brian May interview is a thing of beauty. I'm sure Brian is sick of going over old ground but Rick puts a different spin on it and after being a little bit guarded at the start Brian really opens up. An essential watch imho.

A person now days can learn more music theory and instrument playing in a couple months from the internet than I did in 5 years in college as a music-composing major. I watch any body who plays guitar or keyboard and makes YT videos. It's all informative and interesting.

My guitar teacher bought the Beato Book and attempted to share Rick's theory lessons in adjunct to our practical music lessons. That lasted about three weeks. It's too complex for beginners.

Really enjoyed this. Thanks for informing me of the context. I bought the book v4 and then the ear training and then the online book to support the channel. I think I accidentally upgraded twice from v4 to the online version of the book. Anyway, I am a fan of Beato’s channel. There is music I Karen to today thanks to Rick. Very funny. Triads.

I don't think Beato makes any secret of the nature of his deep diving, nerdy levels of music analysis. His language is that of pentatonics, heptatonics, chromatics, diminished, triads, inversions, most of it goes over my head. That's why I'd never even consider buying someone of that prowess's literature.

Beato has the best guest interviews along with his lesson content. My favorite.

What I got from his book are all the great chord inversion voicings he provided. The rest of his book is loosely explained at best. He's at his best when he delivers topics in bites like how he does through his Instagram videos.

Hi, Thanks for uploading this was very helpful I just had couple more questions about this book. so would you recommend the book for somone who has a decent understanding of theroy but want to expand his knowledge about it? Also is the book help with improvisng and increase speed? Does the digital book have corresponded videos for sure?

Dude. I don't care what anyone says. I have disagreed with Mr. Beato more times than I can count and I STILL keep going back to his channel because his videos are JUST. THAT. GOOD. Also, screw the haters, Marty Schwartz is an amazing teacher, even through pre-recorded video and even as an intermediate/advanced player I've still learned plenty of cool stuff and songs from him. Plus, he's always such a positive dude - how can anyone hate that?!

Seeing as Rick regularly sells his whole music teaching package with weekend sales for under $100...! Why wouldn't you buy that. It's a great deal. I do agree the book is dry AF, but with all the other courses, it works.

Ricks white board videos are very helpful. I have learned alot from his 60 minute lectures on YouTube. He's done more than a dozen. I have saved most of them as a playlist for easy reference.

I learned everything I know about music from studying the Ramones … I’m good

I bought Ricks bundle that includes Beato Beginner Guitar, Quick Lessons Pro, Pitch (Beato ear training), and the Beato Book Interactive. I paid Rick $99 that I consider a pittance for value received. I breezed through Beginner Guitar, nevertheless, I did learn a thing or two that somehow, I missed along the way. But easy breezy ended there. It is "bundle" of painfully difficulty from there on out. I began to wonder if I was cut out to play guitar. That was until I spotted a Bobby Harrison Fusion Blues lesson. The lesson really is for advanced guitarists and that I am not. I watched Bobby's video and understood in real time what he was talking about. A month or two before, I would have passed because it was way over my head. But during that month or two I was beating my head studying Beato. I paid Bobby 6 bucks for the lesson and have lived happily after. Holland, I know you came around after hymning and hawing for the better part of 6 minutes exposing Beato's meme. I'll bet your listeners were sound asleep during the last 20 seconds. And that is why I went to great lengths to ensure that no one was misled by the 1st 6 minutes. Please, from henceforth onward, do not use words I don't understand like meme. Haha. Look, right now I still love you, but if you should use again any word that is as arcane as meme, I will hate you forever. :face-orange-frowning:

I bought the boook and I feel abit like cheated. If you dont have a good level of training in music before you cant understand anything. No explanations at all. If you are a beginner in music theory do not buy the book.

Rick really does go to town on the "future of my channel" vids.

This is a wildly and criminally underrated video.

cool review......my teacher grinded scales and triads into my head which I am indebted.... I bought the online book to support the channel. very grateful for you youtubbers😊

I'm a Berklee Online guitar major and I bought the Beato Interactive bundle during the holiday sale as a means of reference and review. I've watched about a half dozen videos and so far my impression is that it's more suited to be a reference for advanced intermediate players who already have a solid grounding in theory including triads, 4 note chords, arpeggios, scales, modes, etc. If you're a beginner guitarist this is not really a good place to start. Many of the examples I've watched include him playing piano through changes without spelling out chords or explaining why they fit in a certain mode. I understand modes and chord construction but the format he uses had me quickly lost. I had to pause and rewind several times just so I could spell out the chords he was playing and that still doesn't really explain why they work in the example. As others have said it feels more like a collection of lessons he compiled over the years and just decided to throw a title page and have it bound into a book.