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Opinion 

“U2! What are you thinking?”

February 26, 2023February 28, 2023 Alan Cross 5 Comments Larry Mullen, Las Vegas, Rick Beato, U2

Rick Beato has a few things to say about U2’s current plans.

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Music News 

How Auto-Tune destroyed music–and how AI is going to make things even worse

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Auto-Tune, Rick Beato

This video from Rick Beato on the scourge of Auto-Tune needs no further comment. He also talks about how AI

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Music News 

Where are all the key changes in modern music?

December 12, 2022December 12, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bon Jovi, Key Changes, Kinks, Rick Beato, Songwriting

For years, songwriters used a key change–usually a quick shift up–to add some extra oomph into a song. It can

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Controversy 

Is performing with backing tracks cheating? Discuss.

October 30, 2022October 31, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Backing Tracks, Cheating, Rick Beato

When Queen started touring in the 70s, there were questions if (a) they could reproduce their studio recordings live and

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Interview 

Into grunge? Then you need to see this interview with Krist Novoselic, Kim Thayil, and Jack Endino

August 27, 2022August 27, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Grunge, Jack Endino, Kim Thayil, Krist Novoselic, Rick Beato

Rick Beato’s “In the Room” series scored big with this interview. Take a look as he interviews Kirst Novoselic (Nirvana),

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Music Industry 

What’s the future of music? It might be kinda…bleak.

May 21, 2022May 21, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Future of Music, Rick Beato, Ted Gioia

Take a look at this discussion with Ted Gioia and Rick Beato on the future of music. Any thoughts on

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Opinion 

Provocative stuff: Will rock music come back?

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments Rick Beato, Rock Music

Rock music hasn’t been the leading form of popular music for a while. Will it ever come back? Let’s have

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Music Industry 

Do record labels not believe in new artists? Let’s examine that.

April 5, 2021April 4, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Rick Beato, Song Catalogues

Here’s an interesting take on the recent catalogue sales by heritage artists by Rick Beato.

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Music Industry 

Here’s the BIG problem with teaching music online.

February 18, 2021February 17, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Copyright Strikes, Rick Beato, YouTube

How can you teach people about music without playing songs? Here’s the issue with YouTube’s copyright strikes from Rick Beato.

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Music History 

1990-1999: When guitar rock exploded. Again.

February 7, 2019February 6, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Rick Beato

One of the most popular Ongoing History series I’ve ever done was a multi-part examination of the 90s. This video

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Interview 

Into guitar playing? Check out this interview with Steve Vai

August 9, 2018August 8, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Guitars, Rick Beato, Steve Vai

Rick Beato has a great online series that examines all areas of guitar playing. Here is his speaking with Steve

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