Lex Fridman: belief

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…The following is a conversation with Rick Beato, legendary music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello, and piano. Rick, with his incredible YouTube channel, celebrates great musicians and musical ideas, and helps millions of people, including me, fall in love with great music all over again. This is Lex Fridman Podcast. To support it, please check out our sponsors in the description, where you can also find links to contact me, ask questions, give feedback, and so on. And now, dear friends, here’s Rick Beato. You had, I think, an incredibly fun and diverse beginning to your music journey. I heard somewhere that one of the things that made you fall in love with music was listening to guitar solos, some epic guitar solos. What’s an early guitar solo that you remember you connected to spiritually , musically, where you’re like, “Wow, there’s magic in this”? Well, 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, I’ll say it’s this pentatonic scale, E minor pentatonic scale though. I didn’t know that’s what it was called, but learned this thing, and it’s like, “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’d 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, what are the chords?” And-…

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