Music Theory

Sometimes you get a little ray of what’s possible (or maybe even what might have happened in a different timeline). Here’s one I recently found. I have no education in music theory and I absolutely suck at playing instruments. But I care and I want to appreciate music at the deepest level a Neanderthal like me can manage. Here’s a great lesson in music theory.

The future is now! Before it was converted to a 24/7 nightmare of hive mind lunacy, privacy violation, and a conveyor belt of propaganda, there was the hope that networked communication would spread knowledge. I believed in it! Yeah, I know. How naïve was I? Well, in some ways did happen. Beato’s doing it. It’s awesome!

Rick Beato knows how to cram my brain with all the music theory I want. What’s more, he does it with massive enthusiasm. You just can’t help but smile. I understand about 5% of what he says, but I see glimpses of the rarefied mountain from which Beato hears the world.

Here’s a 20 minute video of Rick Beato dissecting a song I’d have otherwise ignored. Yeah, it goes a bit long but who cares? It’s just plain cool to hear it.

After you’ve gotten completely confused with all his esoteric “swapped the third beat on the fifth minor of the third pentatonic gromulator”… play the song. You’ll hear so much more. Also, it’s metal. Play it loud!