Rick Beato is an American YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer, and educator. 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. He’s based in Black Dog Sound Studios in Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. He is now known for his YouTube channel, Everything Music, on which he not only covers different aspects of rock, jazz, and popular music, but also interviews well-known musicians and producers.