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1 Mar 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music
“I think the first thing for learning guitar is actually how to position your fingers so that you don’t mute strings that you don’t want to mute.”
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- Rick Beato
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- 1 Mar 2026
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…So learning a few chords and with an eye towards maybe playing a song? Yeah. With an eye towards… You learn the chord shapes and you learn how to strum basic patterns to begin with. I think the first thing for learning guitar is actually how to position your fingers so that you don’t mute strings that you don’t want to mute. That’s the hardest thing for people to do, basically, is to get their fingers arched to where they… If you’re playing a C major chord, your index finger’s on the first fret of the B string, and you have to have that open E string ringing there. And it’s hard for people to make those micro-adjustments. You take it for granted, like, you’ve been playing guitar- … for, I don’t know, how many years? Forever, right? Forever, yeah.…
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