How to Talk About Music in English? - Basic English Phrases

hi everybody and welcome back to top

words my name is Alisha and today we're going to be talking about ten words you

can use to talk about music so let's go concert the first word for talking about

music is concert concert is a live show concert is yeah the performance is

happening in front of your eyes so concerts are really popular worldwide I

think depending on where you live you might hear them called live shows but

usually in American English we just say concert a concert so in a sentence I'm

going to a concert this weekend to see in concert the next expression is the

verb we use for a live show so the next expression is to see in a concert or to

see in concert so we use the artist's name along with this phrase so for

example I'm going to see Coldplay in concert I'm going to see Adele in

concert so you use I'm going to see artist name in concert or in a concert

what are say in concert or in a concert both are okay so in a different sentence

I'm going to see my favorite band in concert meaning live who do I want to

see you in concert I want to see Michael Jackson in concert yeah I would have

loved to see him in concert he's my favorite to listen to music to listen to

artist the next word or the next phrase is to listen to Plus music or to listen

to an artist so you can use this verb with the type of music or with the

specific artist or band or group that you like so I like to listen to rock

music I like to listen to pop music whatever another sentence is I like

listening to Beyonce I like yes so you can use to listen to or listening to

both are fine here I like listening to funk it's fine I like listening to funky

artists is fine I like listening to Queens of the Stone Age it's fine all of

these are great who do you listen to I listen to to write a song to write music

the next expression is to write a song or to write music so if you want to make

music yourself you can say write a song which just means one song maybe three or

four minutes usually in popular music or to write music in general so you can use

both of these expressions song is more specific music is more general so in a

sentence my friend started writing songs recently or in a different sentence

writing music is really fun track the next expression is track track so we can

use song yes but for example when you look at an album like on iTunes or maybe

like a CD for example each each song is assigned a number that's the track

number so we can say I like track number 3 or track 3 we use track to talk about

a song so you can say this is a good song or this is a good track both are ok

to use song and track are both fine so in a sentence I really like that track

from his album beat the next word is beat so the beat is sort of the feeling

of a song that usually it's easy to hear because there's like a bass drum or

there's some kind of heavy feeling it gives you the sense of rhythm of a song

so in a sentence we would say like song should have a catchy beat or that that

that song has a really catchy beat or I like the beat of that song tempo so

tempo the next word is tempo tempo means the pace of a song how fast or how slow

a song goes so you can have songs with a fast tempo or with a slow tempo or

somewhere in between so you can change the tempo of a song and maybe change the

feeling in a sentence tracks with a slow tempo

are nice on quiet evenings upbeat the next word is upbeat so this

word uses beat which we talked about before but upbeat this is an adjective

that we use for something maybe it's a faster tempo song maybe it sounds kind

of positive or a cheerful a little bit happy so an upbeat track or an upbeat

song sounds maybe it has it has a good positive feeling about it or a good

positive vibe something like that so in a sentence this song is really upbeat

upbeat we can use upbeat for people to like my best friend is really upbeat

something positive or happy down tempo next we'll go to maybe the opposite of

upbeat the next word is down tempo tempo means pace and down meaning like

decreased or slower so a down tempo song has a slow tempo it's more relaxed yeah

maybe it's good for just kind of hanging out or it's a little bit slow or maybe

you hear this at a restaurant or a cafe perhaps a down tempo song so in a

sentence I like down tempo music genre the next word is a great pronunciation

point for many students its genre genre so not John do or Gen ray I don't know

but genre is the correct pronunciation of this word genre means the type of

music you can use genre to talk about movies as well books too but it means

the type of something so type of maybe art you could consider or type of

creativity so genre into in music is for example rock pop funk house old disco

heavy metal classical country rap hip hop blues all these are genres of music

so there types of music you can say what type of music do you like or what genre

of music do you listen to so in a sentence I listen to lots of different

genres of music okay that's the and so those are ten words that you can

use to talk about music in English if there are other words that you use to

talk about music or if you have any questions please leave us a comment and

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