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🗓️ 22 August 2022
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There is no human endeavor that does not have a theory of it — a set of ideas about what makes it work and how to do it well. Music is no exception, popular music included — there are reasons why certain keys, chord changes, and rhythmic structures have proven successful over the years. Nobody has done more to help people understand the theoretical underpinnings of popular music than today’s guest, Rick Beato. His YouTube videos dig into how songs work and what makes them great. We talk about music theory and how it contributes to our appreciation of all kinds of music.
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Rick Beato obtained a master’s degree in jazz studies from the New England Conservatory of Music. He is currently a producer and owner of Black Dog Sound Studios in Georgia, as well as host of a popular YouTube channel. He has worked as a session musician, songwriter, and lecturer at Berklee College of Music and elsewhere. He is the author of The Beato Book Interactive as well as other music-training tools.
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0:34.0 | It's a well-known trope that there's a connection between music and mathematics. |
0:39.6 | It's never quite made sure what exactly this connection is, |
0:42.6 | but certainly scientists love music as a general rule, Albert Einstein, |
0:47.2 | very famously was a violinist and so forth. |
0:49.8 | I think that there's more to it than just the idea that math involves numbers or accounting. |
0:56.2 | Right? I mean that's certainly part of it. |
0:57.6 | You have a time signature, you have certain numbers of beats, |
1:00.8 | certain numbers of notes per measure and so forth, |
1:03.4 | but it goes more deep than that. |
1:05.6 | I think that there is not just a mathematics of music, |
1:08.6 | but there is a theory of music. |
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