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Rick Beato teaching about chord progressions for musicians. Great resource. 

The super Rick Beato teaches you how to practice ear training (just finished live streaming). Lots of excellent tips here. 

Another treasure trove of excellent advice from Rick Beato, this time on the importance of breaking old habits and developing more creativity. Beato exposes a hard truth: it becomes more difficult to be creative after the age of 30, hence why constant learning is essential if one is to improve. As with all great advice, we can apply this to other areas as well. Since I am 24 (pushing 25), I still have time to create with greater ease! In fact, the learning never stops. (This must be why keeping the brain active in old age can slow down diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s). 

Rick Beato explains why all pop music sounds the same. For years, I had noticed that so many “top hits” sound exactly the same. Bored of this, I began exploring music from lesser-known artists and was pleased by the greater chord and harmonic variety to be found. Back when I was heavy on pop music, my music player gradually became more musically diverse. Plenty of singers and bands have interesting chord progressions. Even the big stars, as Rick explains, do want to make more interesting music but are often circumvented by management and record labels, who want easy hits. Hence the repetition. Astonishgly, Beato shows that the Beatles wrote over 25 hits, only using this chord progression once. 

Rick Beato and friends explain the problem with American Idol. Plenty of useful information here about how talent shows become exploitative and the bleak prospects of fame for many participants, despite the hype. This once again demonstrates the exaggeration of American celebrity culture, and how profit is put before substance.