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vocabulary series in this series we explain five important vocabulary words to help you
understand and speak better when you talk about certain topics today's topic is music before we
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now let's get started music is a very important topic to talk about we talk about music with our
friends family and coworkers music is something many people listen to every day and you might
use this vocabulary a lot the five words that we are going to learn about today are melody rhythm
tempo pitch and genre so let's talk about number one melody what is melody maybe you
have heard this before melody is a noun and the definition is a Tim especially the main tune in
a piece of music written for instruments or voices a melody is usually the main or most
important or most noticeable music that you can hear in a song for example there is a very famous
song happy birthday what is the melody in this song it goes that dun dun dun I think that you
know that melody it is very famous so let's use the word melody in a sentence Wow the melody to
that song is so nice or the melody in this song is very easy to remember number two rhythm what
is rhythm well the spelling for this word is a little bit difficult so sometimes it can be
hard to read this word let's practice please repeat after me rhythm rhythm rhythm is a noun
and the definition is a strong regular repeated pattern of sounds it is a repeated pattern okay
so the most important thing to remember about rhythm is that it repeats for example how can
we count a rhythm like this 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 let's use the word rhythm in a sentence the rhythm in
this song is so good or I like to dance to the rhythm of this song number 3 tempo what is tempo
well tempo and rhythm are a little bit similar but they are different tempo is a noun and the
definition is the speed of the rhythm tempo can be fast or slow let's see an example of a fast
tempo one two three four one two three four let's see an example of a slow tempo one two three four
one two three four now let's use the word tempo in a sentence I like the rhythm of the drums but the
tempo is too slow or can you please play a slow tempo you are playing the drums too fast number
four pitch what is pitch well pitch is a noun and the definition is how high or how low a sound is
so sounds can have a high pitch middle pitch or a low pitch let's see an example of a high pitch now
a middle pitch now a low pitch those three sounds are the same they are just different pitches high
middle and low let's use pitch in a sentence wow she can sing in a very high pitch or I can't sing
in a very low pitch I can only sing in the middle pitch number five genre what is Jean
rrah it can be a little difficult to say so let's practice repeat after me genre genre well genre
is a noun and the definition is a particular style of music film or art so there are many
different kinds of music genres in America the popular kinds of music genres are pop music rap
music rock music and jazz music let's use the word genre in a sentence I like many different genres
of music or my favorite genre of music is pop music okay everyone that's our lesson for today
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