Beato Book Review

Rick Beato's theory book - The Beato Book - is a meme in the community.

Is it worth buying?

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[HollandOats]

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[donnacolwell]

My guitar teacher bought the Beato Book and attempted to share Rick's theory lessons in adjunct to our practical music lessons. That lasted about three weeks. It's too complex for beginners.

[Highcastle_of_Geek]

I'm a Berklee Online guitar major and I bought the Beato Interactive bundle during the holiday sale as a means of reference and review. I've watched about a half dozen videos and so far my impression is that it's more suited to be a reference for advanced intermediate players who already have a solid grounding in theory including triads, 4 note chords, arpeggios, scales, modes, etc.

If you're a beginner guitarist this is not really a good place to start. Many of the examples I've watched include him playing piano through changes without spelling out chords or explaining why they fit in a certain mode. I understand modes and chord construction but the format he uses had me quickly lost. I had to pause and rewind several times just so I could spell out the chords he was playing and that still doesn't really explain why they work in the example. As others have said it feels more like a collection of lessons he compiled over the years and just decided to throw a title page and have it bound into a book.

[choimdachoim]

A person now days can learn more music theory and instrument playing in a couple months from the internet than I did in 5 years in college as a music-composing major. I watch any body who plays guitar or keyboard and makes YT videos. It's all informative and interesting.

[fabathome]

Rick's Brian May interview is a thing of beauty. I'm sure Brian is sick of going over old ground but Rick puts a different spin on it and after being a little bit guarded at the start Brian really opens up. An essential watch imho.

[crystaloffrost]

I bought the boook and I feel a bit like cheated. If you dont have a good level of training in music before, you cant understand anything. No explanations at all. If you are a beginner in music theory do not buy the book. Edit: Recently I saw another bundle sale video and could not help but commented that I was dissapointed and Rick immediately deleted it 😅. Seems he needs money.

[KozmykJ]

I bought the Beato Book as a pdf well before the Online Interactive version and I found it great as a musical enyclopedia.
I have some theory knowledge but I'm a bad notation reader.
Rick has helped me join up a lot of the 'dots'.

[General_Puffball]

Rick really does go to town on the "future of my channel" vids.

[RosieHarp]

I don't think Beato makes any secret of the nature of his deep diving, nerdy levels of music analysis.
His language is that of pentatonics, heptatonics, chromatics, diminished, triads, inversions, most of it goes over my head.
That's why I'd never even consider buying someone of that prowess's literature.

[NoCoverCharge]

I learned everything I know about music from studying the Ramones … I’m good

[TheRealCeeJai]

Dude. I don't care what anyone says. I have disagreed with Mr. Beato more times than I can count and I *STILL* keep going back to his channel because his videos are JUST. THAT. GOOD. Also, screw the haters, Marty Schwartz is an amazing teacher, even through pre-recorded video and even as an intermediate/advanced player I've still learned plenty of cool stuff and songs from him. Plus, he's always such a positive dude - how can anyone hate that?!

[alansimpson]

Well.let .me ask you does it have triads and scales in the book?

[marcusvaldes]

I met Rick once at Guitar Center in Atlanta. He was super nice.

[nuke]

What I got from his book are all the great chord inversion voicings he provided. The rest of his book is loosely explained at best. He's at his best when he delivers topics in bites like how he does through his Instagram videos.

[SylvanTuck]

Beato has the best guest interviews along with his lesson content. My favorite.

[gxtarer]

I think Beato's book is equivalent to guitar lessons from Yngwie Malmsteen. His lessons are for guitarists who already know how to play or understand about guitar & he's teaching his style more than guitar.

[towardstar]

the blowback rick gets from other music intellectuals really rubs me the wrong way moreso than any minor contestable thing rick might say

[ianmckenzie]

Seeing as Rick regularly sells his whole music teaching package with weekend sales for under $100...! Why wouldn't you buy that. It's a great deal. I do agree the book is dry AF, but with all the other courses, it works.

[paoloribaldini]

This is a wildly and criminally underrated video.

[badtweed]

It would be helpful to know just how much it cost you to have the Beato Book printed out esp if it was color printed. One time I looked into an online quote for printing and the cost was pretty high. Actually more than the purchase of the Beato Book from Rick.