Rick Beato is one of the best in covering music insights on all levels of our profession on YouTube. He covers topics any musician needs to hear. Always with fresh enthusiasm, he is one to follow actively instead of running into by scrolling around. Besides the obvious on all drums, music and other instruments related on YouTube, Rick Beato gives you new and creative thoughts on music and recording. Here is a rundown of our Rick-Favs. And yes, he plays a tight groove on the drums!
We were planning it for some months now, but with Rick nailing those 1,000,000 subscribers, we couldn't delay an article on him and his drum videos anymore.
Some channels on YouTube you just have to subscribe to and turn the notifications on. Not only because it will teach you things, but also because you can disagree on it. Like in the first video below where Rick in his Top 20 Drum Intros of all Time states that Led Zeppelin's When the Levee Breaks has the best drum intro of all time.
In many of his videos, Rick covers a lot of ground on many different drummers in even more music styles. He goes from Steve Gadd to Rush drummer Neil Peart to Dave Grohl. Or from Stevie Wonder to U2's Larry Mullen Jr. and of course mentions Jeff Porcaro and, the Jazz man he actually is, Billy Cobham.
Some of his best videos also cover plenty of recording insights. And those are lessons you want to hear, take with you, remember, and then do something different with it. Let us watch some Rick Beato on Drums now. And as said, we recommend watching his non-drum videos as well.
Top 20 Drum Intros of all Time (443,619 views in 2 days)
with Jack Jones on drums
Origins of the Shuffle Groove (added to this article on September 6)
Top 20 Greatest Drum Sounds Of All Time
How to get a huge bass drum sound
Steve Gadd: the drum solo that changed popular music
Playing Drums with sound waves
Music Production - how to get a great snare sound on your recordings
How to tune your drums like a pro - the snare drum part 1 of 3
How to tune your toms like a pro | easy drum tuning part 2 of 3
How to tune your bass drum like a pro | easy drum tuning part 3 of 3
How would John Bonham sound today? (Quantized)
Gold play button unboxing 1,000,000 subscribers!
Rick Beato Rick Beato is a musician, teacher, and father of three. Rick Beato started his YouTube channel on May 23, 2006, and uploaded his first video titled "Dylan sings the Excavator Song." Since then he has been uploading various Everything about music.
Rick has worked as a writer/producer with various bands in the rock and country genres. Two albums that he produced for NeedtoBreathe – "The Outsiders" (2009) and "The Reckoning" (2012) – won Dove Awards in the Best Rock/Contemporary category. He co-wrote "Carolina" with Parmalee in 2013, which climbed to number 1 on the Billboard's Country Music Chart. He is certified to teach grades K-12 and holds a bachelor's in music from Ithaca College and a master's in jazz studies from the New England Conservatory of Music. He is presently a member of the Board of Directors at The GLOBE Academy dual-language immersion charter school in Atlanta, GA.
And he has over 1,000,000 subscribers on YouTube!
