Name: Episode 49 — Is The 10,000 Hour Rule Myth or Reality?
Released: 2018-01-01

Rick Beato

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In his 2008 book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell argues that success is tightly married to opportunity and time on task. He states that it takes approximately 10,000 hours to master something. In this episode I examine whether there is any truth to this.

Episodes

Episode 1
Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - Music of "The Dark Knight"
2017-01-02

Episode 2
Even Beethoven Had Licks! How To Make Other Peoples Licks Your Own
2017-01-20

Episode 3
How To Develop a Musical Idea From Scratch - Recording and Arranging
2017-01-23

Episode 4
Fortunes of Hard Work: Why You Should Never Give Up
2017-01-27

Episode 5
How Rediscovering Rock Music Led Me Here - A 24 Year Overnight Success
2017-02-23

Episode 6
What Bach and Charlie Parker Had In Common
2017-02-25

Episode 7
The Steve Vai Interview
2017-03-30

Episode 8
Major Label Record Deal?
2017-04-04

Episode 9
AYDIN ESEN Interview on Sounding Off with Rick Beato
2017-04-13

Episode 10
The Mark Isham Interview - Film Scoring and Solo Career
2017-04-17

Episode 11
The Dennis Chambers Interview
2017-04-18

Episode 12
Rick Beato - SOUNDING OFF with Music YouTuber ADAM NEELY
2017-04-24

Episode 13
Mark Lettieri of Snarky Puppy interview on Sounding Off - Rick Beato
2017-04-27

Episode 14
Victor Wooten Interview on Sounding Off with Rick Beato
2017-04-30

Episode 15
The John Petrucci Interview
2017-05-04

Episode 16
The Jeff Berlin Interview
2017-05-12

Episode 17
The Jordan Rudess Interview
2017-05-16

Episode 18
The Rudy Sarzo Interview
2017-05-25

Episode 19
The Scott Henderson Interview
2017-05-26

Episode 20
The Steve Hunt Interview - Playing With Allan Holdsworth
2017-06-04

Episode 21
A Day In the Life of Rick Beato 2017
2017-06-07

Episode 22
How To Program Drum Grooves
2017-06-09

Episode 23
What It Takes To Get Signed | Industry Executive: Jake Ottmann
2017-06-13

Episode 24
Basics of Music Theory: Part I
2017-06-16

Episode 25
How To Play Radiohead Songs | Why I Love Radiohead
2017-06-21

Episode 26
HAVE NO REGRETS
2017-06-22

Episode 27
The Beatles Secrets Revealed | How to Play Songs of the Beatles
2017-06-26

Episode 28
Rick Beato and Aimee Nolte Sounding Off
2017-06-27

Episode 29
50's Hollywood Style Orchestral Arranging
2017-07-03

Episode 30
Gary Husband - Drummer and Keyboardist Sounding Off Interview
2017-07-14

Episode 31
Music Composition: Dissonance = Emotion
2017-07-16

Episode 32
Chester Bennington Passing | My Thoughts on Linkin Park
2017-07-21

Episode 33
Apple: It's Good If You Like CRAP
2017-08-15

Episode 34
Reading Comments from my Apple Rant
2017-08-22

Episode 35
Do You Djent?
2017-08-29

Episode 36
The Mother of All Chords (really)
2017-08-31

Episode 37
The Light and Dark Colors of Minor
2017-09-02

Episode 38
The Synyster Gates Interview
2017-09-09

Episode 39
The Greg Wells Interview | Grammy Nominated Producer
2017-09-29

Episode 40
Why I Love Tom Petty
2017-10-06

Episode 41
Composing For Video Games | All You Need To Know
2017-10-10

Episode 42
Introduction To Post-Tonal Theory | Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Berg
2017-10-11

Episode 43
Audiophile or Audio-Fooled? How Good Are Your Ears?
2017-10-13

Episode 44
Why Record Labels STILL Suck!
2017-10-20

Episode 45
How To Beat Apple At Their Own Game
2017-11-04

Episode 46
Marty Friedman Sounding Off with Rick Beato
2017-11-13

Episode 47
Introduction to Fugue
2017-12-12

Episode 48
The Four Chords That Killed POP Music!
2017-12-15

Episode 49
Is The 10,000 Hour Rule Myth or Reality?
2018-01-01

Information

Episode air date	01.01.2018
Episode runtime	—
Episode rating	0.00
Genres	Drama
TMDB series rating	—
IMDb series rating	7.8
Series status	Returning series
Age rating	—
Country	US