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Rick Beato

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1. “Whoa, he's just in this one shape here. Now, there was no, you couldn't go look anything up. You just, if you could figure out the notes, you noticed that there was a little pattern to it. And then I got so obsessed with it, and I showed my younger brother John who started playing guitar right at the same time I did. So I was 14. He was 11. And I would play rhythm for him for five minutes while he would solo over Hey Joe. And then as soon as I'd start soloing, he'd throw the guitar down. Then we get in a fight. And so my mom eventually was like, what is going on here? And I was like, John won't play rhythm. John won't play rhythm for me. She's like, okay, I'll play rhythm for you. What are the chords? And I was like, okay, it's like E C D A. And so my mom would literally play rhythm for twenty minutes while I'd play”

   2026-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “The first solo that I learned was Hey Joe. It was actually a good beginner song, you know, when I first started playing the guitar because it has pretty simple chords, right? So it's like E, C, G, D, A. And I learned the solo, and I figured out this, like, it's this pentatonic scale, E minor pentatonic scale. I didn't know that's what it was called, but learn this thing. It's like.”

   2026-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source