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And my name is Rory.
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Maria, what's that song?
Ooh. It's Queen! And we are the champions.
Nice. My friends. Shall we talk about songs?
Let's talk about musicโฆ in general.
Okey? Here's to a listener.
I'll speak in part one music music.
What kind of music do you like?
Oh wow. That's a rather mixed bag, really.
I don't have any one favourite genre or anything.
What I do is actually is tend to latch on to specific songs, and listen to them on repeat for ages before moving on to something else.
What musical instruments do you enjoy listening to the most?
I think that depends on the context really, but generally piano, or other instruments you might find in an orchestra are quite pleasant to listen to, at least in my opinion.
Of course I also listen to rock music, so someone jamming on a guitar can be quite fun as well when the occasion calls for it.
Do schools in your country have music lessons?
As far as I'm aware, yes.
It's one of the core areas of the curriculum.
So students get the chance to enjoy and participate in a variety of music related activities.
What they all are, I have no idea.
Have you ever learned to play a musical instrument?
Oh, I used to know how to play the recorder.
That's a kind of instrument that's very similar to a flute, except it's got a different mouthpiece.
And I made an effort at learning to play a few guitar chords, but I'm not like a maestro or something.
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after one month it goes into our super secret archive to sign up for the archive click the link in the description below see you soon Rory what do you call a cow that can play a musical instrument is it gonna be something musical?
no Rory you don't answer this question it's a joke Sorry, I mean, what could the answer be?
You just, like, why are you giving the answers?
Because I want to get this over with.
Yes, you listen, it's a joke.
So, a cow, an animal cow.
Black and white. So, what do you call a cow that can play a musical instrument?
A mo -position. I have a better one.
And I'm not joking when I say this.
my friends and I have a WhatsApp group and they've just sent something which is a complete coincidence.
And this joke is amazing.
So this is from the ex or the Twitter feed of PETA, which is an animal rights organization in the UK.
And they've posted something that says cows are friends, not food.
And someone replied saying name one cow, you're friends with.
And this organization's Twitter account replied with, your mother.
Wow, Oh, that's so good.
I love it. Yeah, delicious.
So they call the salmon's mother, a cow.
Yes, which is a way of referring to an unpleasant woman.
It's not a nice thing to say, but it's an amazing coincidence for this podcast and actual coincidence.
Now we can move on.
Hooray! So dear listener, you listen to music.
Okay, I listen to songs, you don't say to but I listen to songs, I listen to music, so make sure that to is there.
That's so important, I cannot stress that enough the number of people who study with me right now who make this mistake.
Please please listen to music.
And if you listen to different kinds of music or different genres, you can say that it's a rather mixed bag, so a mixed bag of different genres, different kinds of music.
Right, Rory? Yeah, I couldn't think of...
oh, now I can! I said it's a mixed bag, but what I should have said is I have a fairly eclectic taste in music.
Oh, yes, that also means it's just mixed.
Eclectic is definitely a C2 word. Yeah, so kind of like different kinds of music.
You listen to pretty much everything classical music, jazz, pop music, blues, electronic music, funk, country music, dance music, rock music, pop music, electronic music, heavy metal, hip -hop, folk music or country music, soul, latin, disco...
What else? So many?
Yeah. OK. Some even have names that sound made up.
I don't have a favourite genre.
Genre, Okay? Or kind.
I tend to latch onto specific songs.
So if you latch onto something...
You listen to it until it becomes boring...
which, in my case, is listening to the same song something, like, a hundred times.
Yeah. So if you, I don't know, enjoy Queen...
You know, Queen? I do know Queen, yes.
Not the Queen. We've made that mistake before.
No, no, no, no. Queen.
So if you enjoy Queen you kind of stick to listening to Queen their songs and or you latch on to something.
Latch on to something is a phrasal verb so to become connected to something We can also latch onto someone.
If you stay close to someone, spend a lot, a lot of time with this person so kind of like he latched on He starts spending a lot of time with me, but that's negative, Rory.
I don't know, I think it depends on how you say it, to be honest with you.
Because I frequently say I latch on to people, and I mean it in a friendly way.
If you enjoy certain songs, you can say that I listen to them on repeat.
So you put kind of this song on repeat and you listen to it.
Musical instruments.
Usually, I used with articles the listener.
for example, Roy. Well in my case, I would talk about the piano or the flute, oh wow, again I missed an opportunity.
I could send various stringed instruments like a harp or a viola, or everything else that I think is a violin.
Yeah, you can say, play the guitar, Play the saxophone.
And you can Google now musical instruments list, and you'll see a list with pictures on Google.
And you can choose maybe like three musical instruments and use them everywhere.
But definitely talk about the type.
I didn't do that. And I wish I had no such a mistake.
So you have basically three kinds of instrument you have stringed instruments like violins and cellos.
and you have percussion instruments, like the drums, and you have woodwind instruments which are things like saxophones I think or is that brass?
Um, oh and you have flutes which I'm pretty sure are that too.
Maybe they're maybe they're brass instruments actually.
Okay maybe you could talk about different kinds of instrument but just make sure you know what you're talking about here.
I think that saxophones and flutes are brass instruments but things like the recorders are a woodwind instrument, as near as I can tell.
Hi! Chat GPT here. Rory clearly doesn't know his musical instruments here, so let me explain.
A musical instrument is something people use to make music, and there are five main types.
First, string instruments have strings that you pluck, strum, or play with a bow.
These include the guitar, violin and cello.
Second, woodwind instruments make sound when you blow air through them, sometimes using a small piece of wood called a reed.
Examples are the flute, clarinet, oboe, and bassoon.
Even though the flute is made of metal, and the saxophone is also made of metal, They are still called woodwind instruments because of how the sound is made.
Third, brass instruments are made of metal and use air and lip vibration to make sound.
These include the trumpet, trombone, and tuba.
Fourth, percussion instruments make sound when you hit, shake, or scrape them.
Some examples are drums, tambourines, and xylophones.
instruments. Finally, keyboard instruments have keys that you press to play notes, like the piano and organ.
Each type of instrument has a special sound, and together they create many different kinds of music around the world.
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For example I enjoy listening to oboe, oboe.
That's a woodwind instrument for sure.
And, Ruli, do I need an article, so I enjoy listening to A...
an oboe, the oboe, or oboes?
The oboe, please. The oboe, yeah.
So, we have an Article V oboe or I enjoy listening to the saxophone or to clarinet ...
...or to for example tuba, you know, this huge thing.
And just google different instruments in your listener.
Okay, the tuba. I enjoy listening to the tuba noise.
Or, for example, banjo, to the banjo.
And these instruments could be found in an orchestra.
And who controls the orchestra?
Who is the main guy?
The conductor! Yay!
When you listen to rock music there is one person who is playing the guitar.
And this person jams on a guitar.
Think... well, as near as I'm aware that's just another word for playing a tune on a guitar.
We have music lessons at schools and they're called music lessons, Roy, or something else.
Oh God, I think they're...
They have different names in different countries.
Some people have music lessons, sometimes it's called musical appreciation.
I honestly... I despair when I think about the number of names we just give to these different things, but it's all the same!
It's all music. โ Yeah, we can say that they are part of the curriculum.
So curriculum is the program, is the number of subjects that students should learn.
so curriculum, school curriculum, de listena, double R and also students participate, take part in different music related activities.
Activities about music when they sing songs, they dance, they perform stuff.
Maria much better at knowing that than me because I said, I have no idea what they are or what they are I have no idea.
Yeah which is okay.
I play the piano or I don't play any musical instrument or I used to play the piano at school okay or for example I learned to play the flute or I learned to play the drums in the listener.
And again here you can use these two words that you've learned.
I learned to play the harp.
Just choose two interesting words for musical instruments deal, is learn them and use them.
It's okay if you don't play them, but just use the words.
Ok? I learned to play a few guitar chords.
They're called chords.
Make different sounds with a guitar?
Yeah, like musical notes, chords.
Like I see โ major chord. Oh wow!
Maria knows so much more about music than I do.
I should have interviewed you.
Totally. So we can say like I learned how to play a few chords on the guitar or on the piano, but I'm not a, what did you say, virtuoso?
Maestro? No I'm not a maestro which is like a master.
I think in Italian it means teacher.
or if you're a lady Maestro but in the context we are talking about it's a word in English and we use it to describe someone who organizes or conducts music or that plays music really well.
But there's also it's also used to describe people who are masters in a particular field.
I'd like to think I'm an English Maestro that's probably not true but I like to think of myself this way.
Yes, so Maestro, he is a man, because Maestro is a man who is very skilled at playing or conducting music.
So, if you are a woman, you say or a girl Maestro, but also another word about music is Virtuoso, yeah?
Virtuoso? How do you use it?
Oh, yes. Does that not mean that it's a talented...
I've never used it, I think it means someone who is especially talented in the musical department.
A person who is extremely skilled at something, especially at playing an instrument or performing.
So if you are very good at playing the guitar, you can say, I am a virtuoso.
Or you can say I'm not a virtuoso.
I just play the guitar just for my friends you know like sing songs.
But I'm not a virtuoso.
But this word is usually used in the sphere of music.
Dear listener, so for example, he was a virtuoso on the piano. Oh, he was a virtuoso violinist. He played the violin.
Oh my god, that's wild.
And now, Rory's Vocabulary Show!
Yep, it's that part of the show where I ask Maria questions about the different kinds of grammar and vocabulary we used in the episode.
So Maria, you asked me what kind of music I liked, and I said I usually focus on one particular song.
It doesn't matter what the genre is, before moving on.
But I didn't say focused on.
I used something else.
I ledge onto specific songs.
Excellent, yes. And then I talked about someone playing a guitar in the second question or in my answer to it.
And I didn't say playing, I said something different.
Gemming on a guitar.
Very nice. And then you asked me about schools in my country having music lessons.
And I said, yes, it's an important part of what they learn.
But I didn't say that, I said something higher level?
What was that? These lessons are the core areas of the curriculum.
And in the last question you asked me if I could play or had ever learned to play musical instruments.
And I said I did but I wasn't an expert or anything.
Though I didn't use this word expert, I said something else.
I'm not a maestro! Excellent, Maria.
100%. And you know what that means.
A bonus question. So, in one of the questions, I said I enjoyed different musical instruments, but it depends on where I am or what's going on.
But I didn't say that.
I said something different.
I think it depends on the context, really.
Excellent, yes, and you can use that for any answer.
Okay, okay, so an interesting joke.
Rory, could you please listen to it and explain it?
Have we not had an interesting, we've had several, actually?
No, which is one joke, come on, about a cow.
So what's a pirate's favorite instrument?
A pirate, dear listener.
Jack the Sparrow, you know, Pirates of the Caribbean.
What's a pirate's favorite instrument?
That's a new one. What is it?
The guitar. I don't get the joke.
I do. Pirates are known for going, or saying argh.
And that's the last sound in the word guitar.
Guitar. Oh, well this is our last episode, so there will be no more.
Bye! Bye! 16. What kind of music do you like?
Oh, well, that's a rather mixed bag, really.
I don't have one favourite genre or anything.
What I do is actually tend to latch on to specific songs and listen to them on repeat for ages before moving on to something else.
17. What musical instruments do you enjoy listening to the most?
I think that depends on the context really.
But generally, piano or other instruments you might find in an orchestra, they're quite pleasant to listen to, at least in my opinion.
Of course, I also listen to rock music, so someone jamming on the guitar could be quite fun as well when the occasion calls for it.
Do schools in your country have music lessons?
As far as I'm aware yes, it's one of the core areas of the curriculum, so students get the chance to enjoy and participate in a variety of music related activities.
What they all are, I have no idea!
Have you ever learned to play a musical instrument?
I used to know how to play the recorder.
That's a kind of instrument that's very similar to a flute, except it's got a different mouthpiece.
And I made an effort learning to play a few guitar chords, but I'm not like a maestro or something.
This was PRPLPRNCH, and I'm out!
