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Richard John Beato (/ b i ˈ ɑː t oʊ / bee-AH-toh; born April 24, 1962 [2]) is an American YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and educator.Since the early 1980s, he has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer; he has also lectured on music at universities.
Rick Beato has amassed nearly 4 million followers and talked to musical titans like Sting and Seal on his YouTube channel. A former college music professor, Beato stumbled onto his second career ...
In the lead-up for the album release, on March 1, 2023, Extreme released a video of "Rise" as a first single. The video crossed 1 million views in its first week, propelled by interest in Nuno Bettencourt's guitar solo, [5] which led to a number of analysis videos, including a reaction by Justin Hawkins [6] from The Darkness, and breakdown by Rick Beato. [7]
A few weeks later the band came back to Beato's studio and finished the song in a very short time. They then tracked the original demo, which was a half step up from the 2013 version. The band also tracked 3 other songs with Beato. The band flew back up to Carolina while Beato mixed the song.
Other guests include Damon Wayans & Damon Wayans Jr., "Squid Games" lead actor Lee Jung-jae, actress Angela Bassett, singer Gwen Stefani, and rapper GloRilla.
The band disbanded when singer Carmen Keigans elected to pursue college and the men joined a new band, Tent Revival. In 2020, their former producer Rick Beato revealed that the band had reunited and was recording new songs, now under the name Heavy Weighs the King, adopting the name of their 2008 studio album. [1]
In a June 2021 video posted on YouTube, record producer Rick Beato called "Never Gonna Let You Go" "the most complex pop song of all time", due to its use of frequent key changes, inverted chords and unusual chord progressions. [4] Beato's discussion includes a detailed harmonic analysis of the Sérgio Mendes arrangement.
Two days later, on 28 August 2015, Origins, the debut studio album from the band, which was produced by Rick Beato, [9] was published via Long Run Records. [10] The band toured with Full Devil Jacket in September 2015, [2] and will perform throughout the United States in October 2015 with American hard rock band Pop Evil.