Why Rick Beato is Wrong

[@CrispiestK]

No matter what the topic is, gatekeeping anyone by saying "You can't enjoy X thing if you haven't done Y & Z" just comes off as a petty way of preserving your own pride and nothing else. On a more positive note, loving this new style of unscripted content, keep it up dude!

[@HalfLifeFan_12662]

This is how videos should be, not super edited, creator doesn't jump to conclusions or get angry, plenty of reasoning and evidence, and most of all, doesn't use clickbait, keep making quality videos

[@localdad]

Hey, wow, thank you so very much! I truly appreciate your kind words. 🙂

[@Alernategem]

Thought this was tf2 KZbin beef and somehow came out with a grudge against an old rock head.

[@localdad]

@@Alernategem Hahaha. Well, I'm glad you checked out the video! I appreciate you

[@reeceulf]

Rick Beato just comes off as the fun police. I love booting up FL Studio and mashing my keyboard just for my own enjoyment, and I'm glad music creation is as accessible as it is! So cool that you got to learn drums growing up, I hope to learn them someday too.

[@reeceulf]

I went to the video you're critiquing and gave it a watch. I actually resonate with Rick's dislike for streaming services, as I think they're incredibly inefficient and definitely do not hold the weight of hard copies. Kind of like games in that sense, it felt more magical going to my local GameStop and popping the cartridge into my DS for a new experience and seeing it all the way through to the end. Nowadays it's incredibly easy to block the content you dislike and mass absorb all the content you possibly could want. Curating your own experience on the internet is a good thing for sure, arguably a necessity, but the magic is certainly lost. I do not agree at all with his dislike for DAWs. I think he's upset with them for all the wrong reasons. Knowledge is half the battle, and these programs are a supplement to accelerating the learning process. Hardware is just as cool and important as Software in my opinion, and using all the tools you possibly can in your arsenal towards the indefinite mission of self improvement is a completely valid method of the trade.

[@localdad]

I totally feel that. Even though I only know how to play drums, I still boot up FL Studio and GarageBand to "write" my own music. Granted, they all sound like shit, but... I'm having a blast! So, who cares if it sounds bad? Also, I sincerely hope you end up taking lessons one day. The world needs more drummers!!

[@localdad]

@@reeceulf I'm so glad you watched his video! I also agreed with Rick's disdain towards streaming services. I had zero complaints in that department, but as far as his view on DAWs goes... Yeah, that's a hard no. I couldn't possibly disagree with him more when it comes to DAWs. Especially as a drummer. Great response btw, you worded your views very well. I appreciate that!

[@simplysmiley4670]

Yeah. It's nice that it's way more accessible to common joe to get into, yet doesn't go full "auto-pilot" on you. It just eases you in while still leaving it up to you to make it sound good (at least to you)

[@VenetinOfficial]

Your story about how you became a drummer parallels how I became an EDM artist. I've always had some appreciation for music, and my parents REALLY took notice with how I tried to find something to make music on, so they bought me Logic Pro X over a decade ago to fuck around with. From that moment on I was basically determined to become a Dubstep guy, even if my tracks weren't "good" when I started, I kept at it until I am today. I don't really brag around that my music as good; I leave that up to the listener. However I can confidently say I'm proud of and bump what I make a TON because I PERSONALLY think it's good. I would love to teach people the things I know on top of all that, though, because I have the absolute most budget setup imaginable (aka ONLY computer and headphones), much like you liked teaching a protege drummer. On the topic of understanding instruments by way of producing WITH them, that's actually something I've been learning with getting into more Metal production. I can't make a good guitar tone, drum kit, bass tone, etc. if I don't have a proper and relatively in-depth understanding of what makes any of those individual instruments sound GOOD. I don't have the instruments to play nor the know-how to play any of them, but I DO know how they work and can make the fake, free, and/or built-in MIDI and simulation stuff sound the absolute best it can with how little I have.

[@scooticrowlann7856]

You can take my copy of FL Studio from my cold dead hands. Even then you can't, because I will have glued it to my cold dead hands. (Yes, I can glue the electrical charges stored in transistors.)

[@nonagontf]

One thing that really bothers me is that Rick Beato is so annoying in how he just tries to discredit musicians who use modern techniques. And also the way that he tries to say that music is bad in the modern day is such awful reasoning. He usually just looks at the top 10 or top 5 songs on the billboard or the top charting single/album for the year and just bases the entire music scene off that, and it is so disingenuous, because the top of the billboard is just how popular you are, how marketable you are, not how good you are or how culturally significant the piece of music. For example, let's take the year 1991. There are so many important albums in rock history that would go on to change how people would approach that kind of music, like Nevermind by Nirvana, Ten by Pearl Jam, Blood Sugar Sex Magik by RHCP, Spiderland by Splint, etc. and none of those reached the top spot in the Billboards, ever. This was one of the most important years in rock music, maybe even just music in general, and none of those albums reached number 1. Just a shitty way to think about the quality/impact of music, man. This applies to all of the years, you can have albums like Hellfire by Black Midi that never reach any mainstream success but become so widely regarded in the underground scene and become inspirational for many, many artists.

[@simplysmiley4670]

Hell, this applies to all forms of media. Top 10s, top 1%, top whatever, doesn't really represent the whole genre or form of media, just what's the most _popular_ (what had best marketting, while good enough to not cause anyone to question it)

[@barteomiejwojciak3106]

Pretty fresh tf2 content

[@GoldRust332]

This style of video is so chill. I love it!

[@BababooeyGooey]

I think the dumbest thing about these people is that they think they're being really original with their opinions, as if the more or less same arguments haven't been spewed for as long as music has existed (especially in the last 100+ years). About who has the "right" to make "proper" music. They're what I like to call "These Days" arguments, and the moment I realize that's the type of "opinion" they try to convey, I immediately disregard anything they've said or have to say. Because I've heard it all before, and it's all stupid.

[@geezer413]

flare gun? based.

[@Intoxicated-6887]

Hey dad!!! I DRUM TOO!!! I love drumming :) (6 months of experience so far) electric drums is so cool :)

[@neor2354]

You remind me of Alpharad when he started out. I like your video even when I didn't knew what I was about to watch (besides the TF2 background)

[@johndonne2614]

Excellent video

[@PineappleDealer37]

It's not accessibilitys fault modern music tends to be not good. It's because the publishers and radio stations etc. don't choose good music to play, but the profitable music. There's a band - The cog is dead. They make their own little bit of everything, but since they're self-published they have no chance of reaching mainstream, rather having their own small crowd of followers. Meanwhile majority of the bad mainstream music, which is Pop. Let's not beat around the bush, it's just pop, made specifically to be profitable, is picked by the publishers and put on everywhere over and over and over again. Although accessibility of use can be detrimental to quality of something (one of the exaples is portal 2 having a tone of shit community chambers due to how simple its editor is to use, which makes it hard to find any actual good ones), that is not a case within music industry. I'd say that to find bad music among the small and medium music creators you'd have to be specifically looking out for it, or for some reason pic a genre you don't like.

[@sleepyashi]

i think the correct way to look at “most music being bad now” isn’t to limit who can make music but how can you give recognition to artists who deserve it. punching down and gatekeeping in any creative space just cripples innovation. i can understand his sentiment comes from his passion in music but he should apply it to encouraging new artists and uplifting those who deserve it with the platform that he has.

[@chewycooking9013]

This video is actually very inspiring to me. Maybe I will go out and finally learn all the skills I want to so I can stick it to those asshats who hate change and hate younger people doing well.

[@retardalixo2632]

(Sorry if it, sound confuse. I'm still learning your language)As a guy from Brazil, were the music is one of the most way of getting way from provery. I need to admit that, the music is one of the most influence thing we have, not just for the fun, but for the mensagens we learn from this type of art. But as always, there is nothing good without something bad. the music, at least here in Brazil, became a justify to people have s3x on the streats. If you translate one brazilian music, especially the "funk" (don't confuse with phonk) is the same rhytm with a diferent singer and the way they had s3X with someone. And now we're having the most cultural crise we never had, not just for the music, but from the art on general, the music became the same thing artist to artist, we don't have a musical diverty like you have. When someone appers with a diferent idea, we should adivice this person not rage.

[@tkj7437]

Hey dad great vid as always! But when are you gonna come home with the milk ?

[@butlazgazempropan-butan11k87]

It is completly opposite. It happens everywhere where a lot of popular creators/companies start spewing out shit and the only reason you have good content/product is because it is easy to make so smaller creators/companies do something with passion. For example look at gaming industry, the indie games started to shine recently.

[@Gnomesrule]

i love rambling videos, but like id' appreciate it if you turned down game sounds when making them. Like not much more, but atleast so the volume of the game on our end isn't just as loud as yourself talking. Anyways, I'd rather listen to shitty music then live in a world where making music is only a rich kid thing.

[@localdad]

Noted, I'll be sure to lower the volume of the gameplay a bit more! Appreciate the feedback. Also, I feel you on the music thing!! Couldn't agree more.

[@Bruzed]

Why is there tf2

[@localdad]

@@Bruzed Because I love TF2 lol