Rick Beato

Richard John Beato (born April 24, 1962) is an American YouTube personality, musician, multi instrumentalist, music producer and educator. Beato’s Youtube videos about music regularly get over one million views. Since the early 1980s, he has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer, and has lectured on music at several universities. Based in Black Dog Sound Studios in Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, he has produced for and worked with bands such as Needtobreathe, Parmalee, and Shinedown.