I wonder if anyone in my small cadre of readers watches Rick Beatto on You Tube. According to Wikipedia, Rick is an American YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalist, music producer and educator. He is known for his YouTube channel, Everything Music, where he covers different aspects of rock, jazz, and popular music, and interviews well-known musicians and producers. Watching Rick, I know he loves music like I love music … and understands it as I never will. One of his features is What Makes This Song Great in which he dissects the performance of a song both literally by playing different instrumental and vocal parts separately and figuratively by talking about the chord progressions, playing styles, and instruments. The latter is far beyond my limited music education but I still enjoy it and hearing the way a performance is put together is fascinating. (more…)
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