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

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hi everybody and welcome back to top
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words my name is Alisha and today we're going to be talking about ten words you
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can use to talk about music so let's go concert the first word for talking about
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music is concert concert is a live show concert is yeah the performance is
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happening in front of your eyes so concerts are really popular worldwide I
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think depending on where you live you might hear them called live shows but
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usually in American English we just say concert a concert so in a sentence I'm
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going to a concert this weekend to see in concert the next expression is the
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verb we use for a live show so the next expression is to see in a concert or to
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see in concert so we use the artist's name along with this phrase so for
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example I'm going to see Coldplay in concert I'm going to see Adele in
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concert so you use I'm going to see artist name in concert or in a concert
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what are say in concert or in a concert both are okay so in a different sentence
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I'm going to see my favorite band in concert meaning live who do I want to
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see you in concert I want to see Michael Jackson in concert yeah I would have
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loved to see him in concert he's my favorite to listen to music to listen to
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artist the next word or the next phrase is to listen to Plus music or to listen
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to an artist so you can use this verb with the type of music or with the
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specific artist or band or group that you like so I like to listen to rock
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music I like to listen to pop music whatever another sentence is I like
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listening to Beyonce I like yes so you can use to listen to or listening to
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both are fine here I like listening to funk it's fine I like listening to funky
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artists is fine I like listening to Queens of the Stone Age it's fine all of
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these are great who do you listen to I listen to to write a song to write music
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the next expression is to write a song or to write music so if you want to make
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music yourself you can say write a song which just means one song maybe three or
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four minutes usually in popular music or to write music in general so you can use
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both of these expressions song is more specific music is more general so in a
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sentence my friend started writing songs recently or in a different sentence
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writing music is really fun track the next expression is track track so we can
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use song yes but for example when you look at an album like on iTunes or maybe
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like a CD for example each each song is assigned a number that's the track
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number so we can say I like track number 3 or track 3 we use track to talk about
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a song so you can say this is a good song or this is a good track both are ok
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to use song and track are both fine so in a sentence I really like that track
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from his album beat the next word is beat so the beat is sort of the feeling
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of a song that usually it's easy to hear because there's like a bass drum or
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there's some kind of heavy feeling it gives you the sense of rhythm of a song
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so in a sentence we would say like song should have a catchy beat or that that
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that song has a really catchy beat or I like the beat of that song tempo so
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tempo the next word is tempo tempo means the pace of a song how fast or how slow
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a song goes so you can have songs with a fast tempo or with a slow tempo or
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somewhere in between so you can change the tempo of a song and maybe change the
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feeling in a sentence tracks with a slow tempo
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are nice on quiet evenings upbeat the next word is upbeat so this
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word uses beat which we talked about before but upbeat this is an adjective
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that we use for something maybe it's a faster tempo song maybe it sounds kind
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of positive or a cheerful a little bit happy so an upbeat track or an upbeat
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song sounds maybe it has it has a good positive feeling about it or a good
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positive vibe something like that so in a sentence this song is really upbeat
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upbeat we can use upbeat for people to like my best friend is really upbeat
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something positive or happy down tempo next we'll go to maybe the opposite of
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upbeat the next word is down tempo tempo means pace and down meaning like
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decreased or slower so a down tempo song has a slow tempo it's more relaxed yeah
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maybe it's good for just kind of hanging out or it's a little bit slow or maybe
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you hear this at a restaurant or a cafe perhaps a down tempo song so in a
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sentence I like down tempo music genre the next word is a great pronunciation
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point for many students its genre genre so not John do or Gen ray I don't know
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but genre is the correct pronunciation of this word genre means the type of
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music you can use genre to talk about movies as well books too but it means
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the type of something so type of maybe art you could consider or type of
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creativity so genre into in music is for example rock pop funk house old disco
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heavy metal classical country rap hip hop blues all these are genres of music
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so there types of music you can say what type of music do you like or what genre
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of music do you listen to so in a sentence I listen to lots of different
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genres of music okay that's the and so those are ten words that you can
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use to talk about music in English if there are other words that you use to
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talk about music or if you have any questions please leave us a comment and
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we'll see you again soon Mike
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