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We have a very, very special guest today, Mr. Rick Beato. What's going on, Rick? What's up, Peter? How are you?

I'm doing good. This is actually Take 2. We were just joking about this. This is, as our listeners know,

this is very rare. But I was so excited as we started the interview that I didn't even give you a

chance to talk much, and I was just blabbering on so we're doing take two here

but I'm so excited to have you here and like I said before we have um there's probably about 1%

or less of our audience that doesn't know who you are through uh you know mainly through your

YouTube channel called everything music and um know, for those of you that

haven't followed Rick much, you may know about some of his, like, really big videos, but I want to

dive into a few of those, but to some of the more jazz-oriented stuff that some of our listeners

may not know that you've delved into. So if that's cool, I was going to kind of bring up some of

those. But just a real quick background on Rick, he's like the real deal here. He's done a lot of stuff. I mean, he's produced country hits. He plays a number of instruments. He is New England Conservatory trained. Now, that's big time. That's big time right there. Because you actually got your degree, though. You got a master's from New England?

I did. Yeah. That's awesome. And then, you know, you've put it, you've taught at a number of different levels. You've played. You've produced. You've got the studio happening down there in Atlanta. You've got the YouTube channel. And so so much to ask you about. but maybe we could kind of start a little bit towards the end and work our way back if that works for you. And that is the YouTube channel,

Everything Music. Can you just sort of talk about what was the impetus behind that, how long

you've been doing it and kind of your vision for it? So I started out in the summer of 2016, so just a little over three years ago,

one of my interns came in one day, and you should start a YouTube channel.

And I said, what?

And he said, oh, I said, what would it be about?

And he said, talk about everything that you know about.

I could be about music theory, history, recording techniques, anything, anything that you, you know, that you talk about here.

And I said, eh, nobody's going to watch a guy with white hair on YouTube.

He goes, no, no, no.

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