#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello & piano. His incredible YouTube channel celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of people fall in love with great music all over again.
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Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath

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Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

“that came from. They're channeling some deeper thing. When I interviewed Brian May, he told me, I can't remember if this was if we talked about it on camera or not, but we talked about Bohemian Rhapsody. At the very end, there was a thing where he was depressing his whammy bar a little bit. And”

▶ Play at 1:15:21 Amazon

Europa

Europa by Santana

“that because of the sound is so unique and his interest improvised. It's so cool. Yeah. There's certain songs like Europa by Santana, Santana can have that tone too. Yeah, that Mark Nothler makes me really, just how clean it is. I think he beats BB King in my book on terms of”

▶ Play at 1:07:19 Amazon

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

“it's like there's a meta aspect to it. But the nenders also like we're talking about this guitar stuff, but Leonard Cohen, hallelujah, and Leonard Cohen in general, like these songwriters that go super simple in guitar. And there is just what's that called singer songwriter type. I told you off my”

▶ Play at 1:35:08 Amazon

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Amazon· mentioned in 28 episodes

Master of Puppets by Metallica

“into that moment in time. Listen to the set list. Enter Sandman, creeping death, Harvester Sara, fate to black, sad but true, master of puppets, seek and destroy for whom the belt holds one and whiplash. Look at that. How is that? That just got the fuck out of here. That's amazing.”

▶ Play at 1:43:12 Amazon

Money for Nothing

Money for Nothing by Dire Straits

“the interesting instrumentation of La Romeo and Juliet, just so, so many is truly one of the greats. Now, obviously, the intro to money for nothing is one of the greatest, almost impossible to recreate that because of the sound is so unique and his interest improvised. It's so cool. Yeah.”

▶ Play at 1:07:04 Amazon

Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin

“to the fact there's the, if you're ready, there's a right hand, you can use your fingers or you can use a pick. Correct. That's the choice you make. And sometimes you use both. Because in stairway to heaven, you're using the fingers at the beginning or fingers and pick, hybrid, they call hybrid”

▶ Play at 29:50 Amazon

Star Wars theme by John Williams

“maybe we could have done that. We were that age. So a couple of years ago, it was about, well, he was about three and a half. And I'm in the car. I was like, Dylan, sing the Star Wars theme. And he sings it. And I'm like, that's in the right key. And I checked. I played on my phone.”

▶ Play at 33:28 Amazon

Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits

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#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music

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