I’m Sick of Your Excuses!

what's up everyone this is gonna be a good rant you guys ready I've changed my direction here a little bit so that I don't have all this white behind me even though I'm looking kind of white I'm gonna move over a little bit okay so here's the deal you'd see my rolling stones and I got a platinum record there even though I got a messy shelf um last night old buddy of mine called me from high school I haven't talked to him in years probably I don't know five years or so but even before that I hadn't talked to him in probably she's probably since the 80s or so and I get on the phone with him and he's like what's going on he has no idea that that I don't that I'm not producing anymore he's essentially was calling me up to see if he could come down here and help me produce some songs from for free okay now he's a really old friend of mine I mean from the 70s we he was a guy that was really influential to me when I was in high school he was two years older than me he was a great guitar player keyboard player and a singer and just really talented and I looked up to him and he said he used to he turned me on to people like Pat Metheny for example he turned me on to jazz things I mean he was really a knowledgeable kid for being a high schooler he also was Allstate in football his dad was one of the richest guys in our town he owned a incredible wine-red Les Paul with a huge ampeg v4 amp and cabinet and he had everything going for him fast forward he's you know what 58 59 now and and over the years I always hear the singing I ran for the same whining from him about you know I can't find a lyricist to work with and and you know I just want to play gigs but there's nobody to play with and and and he just kept going on and on and on I listen to about 20 minutes of this and I said I won't say his name but I said you know you sound like you sound like my five-year-old these are the same excuses that I hear from her but she doesn't even complain that much now if you want to talk about you know struggling I said to him I said listen you know let's be honest here you went to my house when I was a kid he knew my parents my parents never made more than probably 20 grand a year I lived in it I grew up in a three-bedroom house and I'm saying this for any pity I grew up in a three-bedroom house with nine people in one bathroom if you can imagine one bathroom and nine people okay when I went to college I auditioned for college those of you that have watched my video about my big failure in life I auditioned it to colleges okay when I was 18 years old as a music music major and I got rejected from both of them okay I have a whole video on this where I tell the story but essentially one of the people was I was playing for this playing classical guitar and stuff and and I was playing for this violin SD recorded it and I didn't know how I did and and then I went to the second place which was if the cat college were auditioned and the teacher there not only did need not accept me but he basically laughed at me okay so I was 18 years old two weeks later I got rejection letters from both colleges and I hid them from my parents and I lie then I said that I got in because with one of the rejection letters which was at Fredonia State the track coach sent me a note saying I know you didn't get into the music program but we're gonna let you in you can be a history major or whatever else if you run on the track team okay I was a track star in high school so I lied and I said that I got into the music school and my idea was I'm gonna go there in my first semester and I'm gonna talk to the teacher and I'm gonna tell her that I really want to take lessons and I want to get and I want to get in the music program so I go to the teacher and she tells me well no I know I can't take on any students I won't teach you okay so here I am 1st year college I'm a history major first semester the I can't get into the music school me I can't get in the music school okay I didn't know what to do so my plan was I this freshman guitar student Phil Sasso and Phil says listen I couldn't play classical guitar well enough Phil says I'm gonna teach you classical guitar and you can go in Riyadh ition so a freshman guitar student taught me classical guitar well enough to go back to Ithaca where I didn't get in and Riyadh ition which I did six weeks into the semester into my first semester over that summer I almost quit I was so depressed about this right but I didn't I said I'm not gonna let this person that rejected me these two people determine the course of my life so I practiced 10 hours a day that summer and I got my jazz playing together and and then this freshman guitar student taught me everyday in our lounge a freshman another kid my I wasn't proud I just wanted to learn how to do it so I could get into college and I got in I went not reassured and I got into ethica college there the second time and I became a music major in the spring of my freshman year I transferred and well six years after that I got I went to grad school at New England Conservatory and then I got a job teaching at Ithaca College in the same room that I got rejected in the same room I came in I tried to play my classical pieces and the teacher there who hired me SEZ SEZ laughed at me essentially when he wouldn't he heard me play his pieces like what what what what versions of those I've never heard those well they were Mel because my my high school guitar teacher that I learned at this music store didn't know anything about classical guitar and he's teaching me these Mel Bay versions that were all wrong right I didn't know I was supposed to 3style periods so I didn't really I didn't have the advantages of people telling me what to do at the time right so I wasn't going to let the to term determine the course of my life so I got there III when I got into if a guy really well none of these other guys can play one of the guys it's a friend of mine still he got in because his next-door neighbor was a famous jazz musician who wrote him a recommendation letter and his dad was a famous producer television producer another guy got in because of blah blah blah and someone else got in because of blah blah blah none of which had anything to do with their playing ability because none of them could play very well okay so and you know I'm not gonna let that I'm there was no excuses I got better I said I'm not gonna let this change my life I go to Ithaca then I I'm teaching there and then I have all these students come in to me they always are complaining about this mr. Barratt oh you're too hard you're blah blah blah you're blah blah you know I said you know what it's hard out there it's hard to make a living it's hard to be successful you want to get into a college you know you gotta be able to play you want to make a living you got to be able to play you want to do anything in the music business you got to be as good as you can be and there are no excuses nobody cares about your predicament in the world you know ultimately there's people that are doers and there's people that are talkers and you're either a doer or you're a talker right so anyway so I'm listening to this buddy of mine just whine and whine and whine about how his life has been so bad and he's got headaches and blah blah blah and nobody's ever wanted to work with him well he's impossible to deal with that's one of the reasons that nobody's ever one to work with him because he's a miserable guy he's a great I love you know he's an old friend of mine he's a talker and and and the fact of the matter is that if you put your mind to something and I mean really put your mind to something you can be successful now okay there's some people that have some disadvantages there's no question about it but you know I was thinking about this before I got on here and I've been really really kind of fired up about this today I got a when I quit my college teaching gig I was thirty years old and the reason that I quit is because a buddy of mine asked me to play on a demo of his an eight-track rock demo and he told me hey I want you come and play on the same say hey hey man I don't play rock I don't play rock anymore I played a rock in high school I don't get you may say come in and play some guitar parts in this demo so don't even bring your guitar so I go in there he hands me a guitar and I play these completely ridiculously tasteless things cuz I don't know what to play on these songs of his songs were kind of like sting but I didn't know what to play I didn't I'd never done guitar parts on rock songs anyway so this guy Alan ends up calling me about a month later he says you're not gonna believe this but the senior VP at Elektra Records called me and says that we have hit songs we they're his songs and before he spends a quarter of a million dollars on her band we need to put a band together do all this stuff and he's gonna give us five thousand bucks to record some songs so I was like what so and he didn't have any more songs so anyways so he said well I need to teach you how to write songs so he taught me how to write songs this is a verse this is a chorus I never paid attention to so I just listened to music like everybody else so he taught me how to write songs from scratch we never got a record deal with them but in 1991 1992 we got to publish and deal with Polygram some guys saw our band play at CBGB's in new york city handed me his card is like you have hit songs I want to sign you to a publishing deal I got a publishing deal at age thirty which allowed me to quit my steady college teaching gig and try to make it in a band well I didn't make it in a band there that band didn't make it because it wasn't good enough okay and broke up at the beginning at the beginning of 1994 right no record deal publishing you know no record deal what did I do I went back and I had to live back at my parents house and I have a whole video on that I was thing in my car was gonna get repossessed okay so I took that my brother ray hired me to come in and do some some computer work at his company for a few weeks because I had no money I mean I was literally living at my parents house sleeping in my old bedroom at 32 a former college teaching former college professor then I spent a year traveling around the country really traveling around the world and going to different cities with about $200 I had a guitar a Mexican strat and a pv classic 50 that's the only gear I had because I had to sell all my gear because I was broke my parents lent me a thousand dollars to pay off my car which was going to get repossessed my car was literally gonna they were gonna come to my parents driveway and take my Honda away that I had almost paid off my $8,000 car that I bought when I got my college teaching gig okay I paid my parents back I saved $200 and I started on a trip I went to London I went to Wales I went to III I went to Amsterdam I came back I moved to New York City I moved to Denver I moved to Chicago I moved to Chapel Hill I would stay for a few months at a time and I eventually ended up here in Atlanta in 1994 at the end of the year okay I wanted to play in a band okay I had songs I was writing that we're on a four track and I was not going to fail at this so what did I do I had no money a buddy of mine got me a gig playing a cover gig the first night I was here which is the reason I stayed and end up getting a job at Blockbuster blockbuster music where I wore a blue shirt and I open CDs for people for them to listen to to decide if they wanted to buy him or not okay that's what I did for a living and they had to teach us how to tear this little plastic strip off that had had glue on it without breaking it this was like a really big thing right so I did that I started a band eventually in 1997 okay I was 3035 years old I said to my brother man am I wasting my time with this he goes no just do it another year I ended up getting a record deal with that band a year later in 1998 get the record deal we get to work with a drunk producer most of you that watch this channel know that story I didn't know how to produce or anything we had this guy that tried to produce our record he showed up for the first few days and he stopped showing up and that was it head of the label comes in one day season drunk fires him were four months into the record and 400,000 dollars into it we've got nothing okay I go back home they labor hires this guy Kevin Shirley to try and and fix this horrible record that's that mean a disaster of a record which hadn't I mean it was just no track sheets nothing and in the meantime I'm broke again we spent all our advance and everything I got nothing so I go to one of my friends I said man I'm gonna have to either go back and teach you guitar lessons all this time I went from working in the blockbuster to teaching 50 students a week if you want to know why I know so many songs how to play them because I have 50 students a week that I taught for five years where I taught cover songs of every style of music you can imagine okay so I got signed in a band at 36 my first band we had a drug producer and the record and I was broke so I my friend said listen why don't you do some producing I don't know how to produce I don't know how to engineer so he got me my first gig and I learned engineering I told you guys by taking magazines you know I got magazines whatever they might be and I would read stuff in it here's how you micah snare this is how you mic this you mic that and I would ask people I there wasn't the information there was no YouTube then okay 1999 but that first record did pretty well and I got enough record and that record did pretty well meaning that they were not that signed bands or anything but but they sounded way better than that then these bands really sounded okay and I kept getting more and more and more and I kept learning more and more and more and if any of you watch my John Bonham video yesterday the reason I know so much about drums is because I went out and I bought every imaginable drum you can think of horrible ones and then I would say why does this sound bad oh because it's this era and this was a bad era and I wasted money on this stuff and I went to people that manufacture drums that repair drums and they taught me this stuff and I was never gonna use an excuse oh why doesn't this record sound good Rick oh well it's the band's fault they have bad songs no it's not the band's fault it's the producers fault if the band has bad songs you rewrite them if they have bad lyrics you rewrite them if they can't play their instruments you play them forum or teach them how to play them no matter what instrument it is no matter what genre it is that's what you do and one day a buddy of mine who works for Atlantic Records said I want you to go right with this band that I signed I signed the singer the band's called shine down you see that right there as a platinum record there so he says I said what's what's the deal he says well it's like he's incredibly good singer he's like a grunge singer you know he's kind of like Chris Cornell I was okay so I go down and write a song with him play it on cassette over the phone to the A&R guy he's like sounds amazing write another one we wrote another one we did that we and he said sounds great let's get you guys in a studio I read them met the rest of the band so you know I worked as a producer for all these years okay and then got my first gold record in 2004 my first platinum record in 2004 I was 42 years old when I got my first record I've been producing learning engineering and producing for four years okay all right so then at let's see 52 52 in 2013 in December I wrote a song with a man in 2007 that became a number one song million selling song okay I'd probably written a thousand songs maybe more than that Oh from from 1989 from that demo with my buddy Alan all the way to 2013 nothing never a single ever 89 to 2013 nothing was successful then all of a sudden somebody believed in one of the songs that I had written with one band out of nowhere that I had forgotten about it took 43 weeks and the song on December 9 2013 went number one sold a million copies so at 52 I had my first hit song then at 54 I was tired of producing I did I had done it for so many years I didn't it just to work on records as grutas brutal you work six days a week 12 hours a day 14 hours a day and it's hard you know and one day my intern Rhett came in whose been interning because he wanted to learn about production and engineering and he says you know what you need to be a youtuber what no white haired guys on YouTube what are you talking about youtuber I'm not gonna be can't be a youtuber at 54 he's gonna watch my channel at 54 I said what am I gonna do he said talk about all the stuff you know everything everything music I said I don't know how to run I can't make a video I've done even own a camera I'll bring my camera over I don't know how to edit video he's like no problems like editing audio just get Final Cut Pro so I bought Final Cut Pro 200 bucks and at first I used my phone my iPhone honest and like I'm using right now right and I made my first video I made my trailer Rhett made it for me I didn't know what to say so Rhett had to write and I read it off a teleprompter because I had never done a video speaking before so a couple days later I called read up and I said you know what I made my first video he's like what you made a video on your own I said yeah I figured it out and if you look at my early videos the editing is horrendously bad it's hilarious right I mean I left in clips I shouldn't have because I was making him at night after my sessions after our work 12 hours I'd stay up and I'd make these videos okay so so that you know two years later I just hit four hundred and fifty thousand subscribers thanks to all you amazing people this incredible community out there and I was able to go from making a living as a producer to relying on people on this channel buying my book buying my coffee mugs buying my t-shirts that is really how I've survived and made a living for my family but one of the problems is that I started this thing what makes this song great which started the big D monetization of the videos on my channel now when you watch the videos you'll see ads but every one of those ads goes to the people that wrote the song which is perfectly fine I came to a decision it's like wait you know stalking with my buddies with Adam Neely my other YouTube people and ami ami Nolte we're talking about how do you have a youtube channel if you can't play music because they D monetize your stuff so I did made the decision well screw it I'll let them do monetize it this is the stuff that needs to be taught on here and I don't care I'm gonna take a chance that people are gonna buy enough of my books or you know invest in my couple courses that I have that I'll be able to make a living doing this okay so because of all these this thing has gotten so successful with this what makes the Sun great all of these views that I get in my channel are all D monetized and this brings up something I want to talk about as well today is that today is your chance to join the Beato Club so this is my answer everybody asked me why don't you do patreon I don't do patron because I don't believe in patreon because I don't like the way the app works I just don't like the way they do things at patreon I don't I mean I just you know I've made no bones about that Aaron who I've been working with now it's been working with me on my channel he's sitting over here moderating basically built a patreon style thing where you can donate you can become a patron of this channel and help me do the things I really want to do like travel to New York and go talk to people record labels and convince them to let me have to work with multi-tracks of the Beatles and the WHO and Led Zeppelin and ac/dc and all people like that and I want to go to you know I want I want to take the next step with this channel and so we're gonna be launching this tomorrow on flat 5 and Aaron you want to talk about this at all right now you want to explain how this is going to work Aaron can come over here actually talk okay so here's the deal so here's here are the perks that we have flat 5 is Aaron's teaching platform that he built he basically built it for any of you that have teaching music teaching courses you should go and contact Aaron at flat 5 it's WWF LA TF IV calm so there are it works similar to patreon for $5 you get weekly live streams for Club members and free access to all the PDFs these are things that you act you know when you donate you get a membership to this and through Aaron's website through flat five twenty bucks a month access to free video content and mini lessons things where I go into further depth explaining things not only things here on my channel but things on my Instagram for example for 50 bucks a month you can be listed as a supporter in the description of the videos plus you get all the other things for a hundred bucks a month for those people that want that you get a reaction video to your songs to your compositions to your mixes your performances where I will give you a video of me talking about your music as I'm listening to it every month every month one song a month for that that's gonna be limited the amount of people for that and we're gonna have a what are we doing here Aaron for the people on the live stream right now [Music] we're gonna yeah we're gonna have a giveaway for anyone that signs up right now is we're gonna give what is it they're gonna they're gonna get we're select somebody randomly and they're gonna get one membership for free we're gonna select one person from here for from the people that sign up today and they're gonna get a free membership for one year okay I'm gonna do it at random Aaron is putting in the link here and Aaron come over and say yeah so the the the reaction one that's a real opportunity for anybody that wants to grow as a songwriter or composer or producer or performer to get monthly feedback your skills on your productions on your songs and you can grow by getting just this this monthly reaction by somebody like Rick and yet all you got to do is sign up it's a real opportunity they want the book you can always buy the book too it's available on my website as well so anyways that's that's what I have to announce on this as far as you know people have been asking me this for a long time about this why I don't do patreon and and because I think that that I think that this is going to be be cool and and there it is Erin that's pretty funny right Erin didn't know Erin's not crazy he isn't I know he looks crazy but he's not somebody like Rick critiquing no Rick critiquing I did it during my master class I had people played tunes and I listened to them and I critique them live on stage and it was that's kind of one of the that's how we actually thought about this this happened this is over the weekend and and and it's you know it's honestly it's it's it's really interesting to do that because it's fascinating to see what kind of people actually actually follow this channel and man that's the music was all over the place and it was so cool to listen to it some of it was good some what was not good so there it is have I considered the Cure I'm gonna definitely do the cure for my video and be out a book ah I think that there's Aaron is there if people want to buy the Beato book do we have a discount on it I think our be seven one nine twenty percent off on the be out of book what about the doors the doors are blockers these are the things the doors are blockers I mean honestly most of the biggest bands are blockers Pink Floyd's a blocker the who is a blocker Zeppelin The Beatles not all the Stones songs are blocked I'm not sure about deep purple I really want to do hush dream fleet theater and nap blockers newer bands are not blockers they're hip to this that that's the thing is that is that the bands that you know nowadays bands are are not blockers u2 was a blocker I can't do any u2 songs I'm a John Bonham video the reason I got away with playing those Zeppelin clips is that I actually tested the video unlisted to see if I could get away and only one of the songs that bleed on heartbreaker but I got busted on a Beatles video I played the bass line to a day-in-the-life on a live stream a long time ago on my second channel and they took the video down immediately because it had bleed just the bass part to the Beatles because they had bleed on the track from other parts and it could tell what it was from so there you go and but I tested I tested the bottom tracks though to see and I had to cut him up and small enough segments to do it I wanted to use longer segments but but I couldn't get away with anything more than nine seconds so Rolling Stones don't block it really sounds black a few signs they don't block all the songs Rolling Stones are awesome I love the stones not just for that so that's it I said what I needed to say no excuses you guys come on if an old guy like me can do this you can do it anybody can do it it just comes to the comes down to what I like to say my friend Paul used to say he had a thing in a refrigerator the only truth is action that's it you're gonna be a doer are you gonna be a talker I'm sick of your excuses but you're the best people in the world here thanks for watching today and wait Aaron we gonna pick somebody right now okay wait I'm in a vamp for a second I'm vamping hold on hold on hold on by the way the john bonham video was a precursor to other things that we're going to do on here that I'm going to do so you know I did the guitar videos I did the bass videos into the virtuoso videos but I'm gonna spotlight specific players of different instruments you know a couple people in the comments and what about Geddy Lee and I said ooh that's good somebody else said what about the edge from u2 and I said that's good because the edge has a lot of different sounds I mean I can I can actually any of these peoples styles I can I can talk about but you know part of investing in the Beato Club is so that I can go and meet with some of these people in person Joe Satriani Steve Vai whoever and and actually be in the videos with them Knoll Gallagher how do you sign up Aaron put the link in again for people that want to sign up we got a winner randomly selected Aaron has a random generator thing that he uses a program Aaron who is it oh brother who is it - Lee Thompson what's up Ashley I can't wait you got something to send so everything is gonna be up tomorrow right yes the thing is going live you can you can sign up today and there will be the content tomorrow and you can send your song tomorrow but there's only a limited number of those people at that I'm not sure how many I'm limiting it to you right now but but I'm I'm excited about they get Metheny I'm gonna get Matheny I'm gonna get Brian Eno I see y'all I see everything on there we're gonna do this we're gonna do this right okay more tool I'm gonna get Maynard oh how great would that be I'm gonna be sitting with Maynard somewhere I'm gonna get Shirin Berg no I can't get Shirin Berger Beebe oh but I can talk about them and go in interview go me and to interview John Williams absolutely that's going to happen Steven Wilson everybody wants me to talk to Steven Wilson David Byrn Aaron Joe Eric Johnson I mean I got it I I have to you know well these people are still around I've got to go and talk with them Brian May okay you guys are the best thank you for watching

Channel: Rick Beato

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Length: 34min 32sec (2072 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 24 2018