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Rick Beato

Born: April 24, 1962

Richard Beato is an American YouTube personality, music professional, and educator. Since the early 1980s, he has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer and record producer. Beato lives in Georgia, United States. He has written songs with, and produced music for, a variety of musical artists, including Needtobreathe, Parmalee, and Shinedown.

Beato was born into a large family from Rochester, New York. He studied at Ithaca College, obtaining a bachelor of arts degree in music. He earned a master's degree in jazz studies from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1987.

Beato has worked in academia and the music industry

Standards, Expertise and the Art of Judgment

by Patrick Keeney
June 13, 2026

American musician and musicologist Rick Beato recently criticised a list of the 30 greatest contemporary American songwriters compiled by music critics from The New York Times. He dismissed the exercise as meaningless. His objection was not primarily to compiling such a list, nor to the names nominated, but rather to the dubious ...

You Have to See It to Believe It: The Addictive Eccentricity of Angine de Poitrine

by Kyle Simpler
April 24, 2026

Normally, whenever someone mentions something we can't unsee, they mean it in the worst possible way. In many cases, this brings to mind an unpleasant or shocking image or moment that lingers longer than we ever wanted it to. Fortunately, this is not always the case. For example, the Canadian duo Angine de Poitrine intentionally shocks audiences ...

Excessive Chops, Antagonistic CDs, and the Malevolent Inner Voice

by Mr. P.C.
October 9, 2024

Excessive ChopsDear Mr. P.C.: It seems like people don't really value chops anymore. Cats want their solos to be “thoughtful" with lots of space between notes and lines, and I know most of them only play that way because it's all they've got. To me, big spaces are just missed opportunities. I have chops; ...

Rick Beato

by Joseph Vella
September 17, 2021