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back to another edition of the master
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today I have my friend Shannon if
if Abe did I pronounce that red is
is perfect it's awesome so
so he has a kind of funny last name
name can you spell your last lef eb
eb v re ok French
French Canadian French Canadian top
top don't hold it against me where
where are you living now i'm in Nagasaki
Nagasaki Japan and where are you from
from I'm from Australia born in Sydney
Sydney but raised in down in the in
in the north so so you can see that
that he's and interesting eclectic
eclectic mix of lots of different
different things french canadian and
and some Japanese influence now but
but also from Australia's are accidents
accidents or a little bit different
different from being a completely
completely different yeah they are
are they are quite different you'll
you'll notice I'm from Chicago even
even people in America we've all got
got different kinds of accidents it's
it's really a huge country lots
lots of different influences and you
you know so i can because he's coming
coming yes West
West goes 0 midwest and the south
south so I've been to quite a few
few different places in the American
American and I can ever where have
have you been in America are pretty
pretty much all over over that probably
probably 30 32 states and the out
out of 50 that's like more than me
me that think mostly more than most
most Americans a distance yeah I've
I've been a bit so I don't know Alaska
Alaska
Alaska I
I haven't been to Alaska Alaska is
is one of the definitely the places
places i really want to go to it's
it's on the list it's on the list
list well I got a lot of family up
up in the risk comes to kind of vancouver
vancouver all right so it's not too
too far
too far no
no sort of little hop skip and jump
jump just to get to the open to Alaska
Alaska for me well
well anyway today so this month we're
we're talking about music you got
got to listen to a conversation I
I had with my older sister who is
is a flute teacher and I also learned
learned some things about her that
that I didn't know so maybe my memory
memory is kind of i'm losin I'm losin
losin my memory I guess lazy it's
it's a little foggy I suppose but
but when I was younger I always assumed
assumed she was playing the piano
piano
piano something
something like a long time but she
she wasn't my younger sister I
I knew she was a piano player as well
well but so anyway my older sister
sister is a flute player and since
since we're talking about music this
this month i wanted to talk with my
my friend Shannon hear about some
some like musical experiences in his
his life he's a big fan of singing
singing he loves it go to karaoke
karaoke
karaoke well
well yeah okay remember my birthday
birthday party love yes yes we we
we built it out a couple of numbers
numbers
numbers I
I the tiger eye of the tiger this
this is a great song and especially
especially if you are a fan of learning
learning English one
one of the interesting things that
that kind of different things about
about the the karaoke culture again
again if you're Japanese this would
would be caught oh ok and
and the Japanese for that is open
open work is yours if you didn't know
know what that meant anyway so it's
it's really interesting we've got
got coming from America open orchestra
orchestra becomes , oh ok in Japanese
Japanese and then it comes back to
to english to become karaoke karaoke
karaoke but the interesting thing
thing about the culture of karaoke
karaoke in America is that what you
you usually have is like a bar or
or like a restaurant or something
something and then everybody is sitting
sitting in one room all the people
people eating or drinking together
together and then there's one microphone
microphone so you need a lot of courage
courage or you need to drink a lot
lot of alcohol or something or be
be a great singer I
I suppose which most people aren't
aren't to get out and really be able
able to do some things like that so
so in Japan it's all little body is
is no buckle it's
it's family and
and friends so it's a little not as
as intimidating sure it's very very
very open and very friendly and is
is a friendly and your food anyone
anyone gives you a little clunky of
of the under what you're really bad
bad
bad yeah
yeah and they have some some instruments
instruments ya tambourine and I got
got the little bit of a good time
time
time you
you know you have like a little it's
it's like it's like a 2d yeah
yeah for a guitar you can keep your
your not like pretend to play the
the guitar in some places it's kind
kind of really it's kind of funny
funny you know when you do something
something like that you know they're
they're very to get into it yeah
yeah you know putting a kind of significance
significance and stuff like that yeah
yeah I going to do for the singing
singing I don't really get there for
for the yeah a good time and stuff
stuff like that but now that you know
know everything everybody says they're
they're really good yeah exactly it
it to each his own yes
yes really but tell me about the first
first time you went to karaoke you
you may like so you've been in Japan
Japan longer than I am yes you've
you've been here like 12 years or
or 13 years that on and off yeah not
not all for me for about 16 years
years 16 years but in total probably
probably around about seven years
years now so yeah now I remember the
the first time with the character
character very clearly yeah
yeah it was with the adult classes
classes teaching a conversation class
class
class I
I rock up into the listen and they're
they're like a we're going to select
select bunny haha
haha let's go and like okay his men
men and women men and women on I was
I was a group of I you know business
business around the flat and they're
they're there the
the philosophy of learning English
English was not candidates let's
let's hit the books now sure like
like free conversation huh let's
let's do whatever we feel like make
make it fun and make it interesting
interesting so there is like a you
you know an amalgamation of people
people just you know enjoying me how
how to to to talk English with each
each other and stuff like that it's
it's great so we went to a bar and
and they're like a que I want you
you to sing you know it's something
something for us and them yeah look
look it's not like character today
today today and got you know all the
the latest in our top 40 you got all
all those you're all the new song
song yes
song yes this
this rock is pop this you know arm
arm because you know pretty much a
a full spectrum of the of the singing
singing genre but in the old days
days
days 15
15 16 17 years ago you had only the
the song from the sixties and seventies
seventies
seventies oh
oh really oh yeah and now there was
was nothing nothing you know I had
had no idea i'm kind of newer to the
the carrier he's the only choices
choices you really had was Elvis Presley
Presley
Presley huh
huh the beatles as far as like for
for music seriously now that was it
it the beatles and carpenters and
and the end of carbon and that was
was that
was that I'm
I'm like that sing sing sing sing
sing the Capitals for me not like
like a better even though the company's
company's little own songs from the
the comments be sure well
well if you're if you're not Japanese
Japanese and you're watching this
this the carpenter's it's an American
American band it's a I think their
their husbands wives husband and wife
wife team and they're singing singer-songwriters
singer-songwriters like ballads yes
yes so they produce balance there's
there's lots of different genres of
of music and a ballot is a kind of
of like a love song I'm like singing
singing about how much I care about
about you and and
and all of these things but one of
of the reasons they're popular in
in Japan is because their music is
is really slow yes
yes it's clear it's easy to understand
understand this is the Carpenters
Carpenters you can get this but a
a lot of students listen to this in
in English classes in japan so everybody
everybody knows copy unfortunately
unfortunately she she died already
already young you
you didn't know not going out anorexia
anorexia it really yes she was one
one of the first like stars singers
singers and actresses to actually
actually full frail to obviously an
an eating disorder really
really and I was back in the seventies
seventies so yeah so you know a little
little bit of a you know music
music music trivia there why didn't
didn't like how do you can ask your
your friend how did karen carpenter
carpenter died as i was the name was
was it I think Karen car came for
for and I think my this before LOL
LOL generation sure sure i
i know i don't know if you heard about
about the cop news before you came
came to Japan I i think i think i
i had heard some of the music of The
The Carpenters but I didn't know who
who produced ok
ok like what's that what's the one
one song when i was young i listen
listen to them and I listened to that
that in school and let him lick I've
I've heard that before i
i know i have but i don't know the
the people who produce song that's
that's interesting like every school
school like junior high school elementary
elementary school I guess even high
high school in Japan they have got
got their song at the end of the day
day or even like the town that got
got the like another eight o'clock
o'clock in the morning we'll do the
the five o'clock from yeah and if
if it one in my town was good I know
know and which translates as Love
Love Field town I
I was yesterday by oh yeah sure sigh
sigh every day for the three years
years i lived there I
I listened to yesterday really yeah
yeah so I went to a there
there is a grocery store I think it's
it's still in the old over i was living
living before when i first came to
to Japan it was a small grocery store
store is where i started practicing
practicing my Japanese actually ok
ok and every Wednesday they had a
a sale and guess what music they played
played your never you'll never guess
guess
guess and
and you just take a wild guess Michael
Michael Jackson be there no no not
not Michael Jackson they played the
the music for Indiana Jones really
really
really oh
oh I was in their shopping in like
like I don't know why they picked
picked it but i felt i don't know
know that i felt i was like I want
want a shot so but like did it there
there
there did
did it is late grabbing my bananas
bananas a day off I
I guess it was a nice a a marketing
marketing ploy I
I guess maybe they had to pick something
something yeah to use your you know
know your subconscious to tell you
you see if to buy more stuff because
because you felt I guess what adventures
adventures so sure i could see that
that working more in like an American
American store but like a small Japanese
Japanese plays that people would know
know I mean I I know Indiana Jones
Jones is popular but i could if i
i could imagine more popular money
money and I but if you go into a lot
lot of different supermarkets and
and a lot of the different department
department stores and stuff they
they will play music sure they're
they're I mean they're all like music
music music music is everywhere it's
it's like there's always like some
some kind of thing but I don't you
you know you know it mr.
mr. max they play with what is mr.
mr. max is a BB gun like a department
department store where is a Alice
Alice Nagasaki really
really yeah mr. managed to max this
this one and two get soon let
let me love ya one I need to get out
out more anyway they they played the
the when the saints oh
oh really yeah but then at the end
end they put them on Nuala spilling
spilling remember when the same time
time mr. max haha
haha I've ever the states that mr.
mr. man that's butcher the song but
but it's still going to catch the
the rhythm and meter not even 10 20
20 30 minutes after I left the place
place i'm still having that many songs
songs
songs ya
ya like like Max like subconsciously
subconsciously like it's looked in
in so you know where that concept
concept that you make you into concerts
concerts i've been - Wow I'm
I'm trying to think of some more intimate
intimate kind of concerts up into
into actually there there's
there's a a singer i really like all
all Rufus Wainwright you
you probably never heard of him and
and he's actually he's been in like
like a couple of movies and done songs
songs and that you probably heard
heard some of his music before but
but i really like his music rufus
rufus wainwright and it's actually
actually it's actually not bad for
for learning English because he's
he's he has a kind of like a really
really like nasally kind of voice
voice like me is like it's
it's like but like it's like a very
very pretty easy to sing well
well yeah I mean I keys are really
really he has a really distinctive
distinctive divorce ok
ok and so would you like you can yeah
yeah you i mean like as soon as I
I I I heard it I was like all like
like I really like the song but there's
there's some really good songs it's
it's actually not bad for learning
learning English ok so i mean it's
it's it's
it's it's he
he has some slower ones that it's
it's not it's not like the Carpenters
Carpenters it's not that easy that
that obvious but it really good stuff
stuff so I saw him actually that was
was on it was one of those things
things you never had this happen to
to you where you're thinking about
about like I really want something
something to happen but I don't know
know how it's going to happen and
and you just kind of put the idea
idea in your mind and I was like man
man I really love to see that guy
guy in concert but I never really
really liked I
I just kind of put the idea in my
my mind didn't do any a key and I
I didn't I was I mean it's like clearly
clearly he's like popular and touring
touring and i'm sure i could like
like find him somewhere whatever and
and then I was looking on craigslist
craigslist and we were actually I
I was talking with my sister last
last month in the master English conversation
conversation master class lesson video
video about that about how she used
used craigslist craigslist to find
find some kit because she's looking
looking for some kids were talking
talking about pets yes yeah yeah and
and i was looking on craigslist when
when i was living in seattle and there
there was a a woman that had posted
posted like I've got two tickets to
to Rufus Wainwright will answer in
in Seattle yeah
yeah and i was i was in the bathroom
bathroom as like they're looking at
at my phone I was like oh man like
like that's awesome so I mailed her
her and actually like met her and
and got to go to the concert and it
it was I just like met a new person
person like that it was it was weird
weird it's like put yourself out there
there like whatever whatever you would
would like don't
don't don't be fearful of meeting
meeting new people think about the
the experiences you want to have in
in like even if you don't know exactly
exactly how it will you
you know get out there and like figure
figure out some way to do it actually
actually had a lot more chances to
to go to concerts when I love being
being in Japan yep australia
australia I've actually I've been
been to a few myself what if you see
see I i went to another concert I
I really where was that cool oh really
really and I mean oh shoot sure sixty
sixty eighty thousand people out and
and I mean she you know she was doing
doing the whole you know the full
full song list like you know from
from her early stuff too -
- like you know I was really nice
nice to me it was right i mean she
she she's saying a lot of the classics
classics and one of the earlier songs
songs and then this you have an opening
opening act ah
ah no she didn't opening act as though
though it was a longest constantly
constantly being too like three hours
hours right so
so every time she left the stage like
like they're screaming for the comeback
comeback and stuff like that so no
no no I was really amazing another
another interesting that's a bad thing
thing that happens to be one of my
my students at all students are from
from when I lived in the way down
down his son is a famous get Tyrus
Tyrus great yes
yes and yeah he we went with his father
father to one of his concerts went
went backstage and had some eats and
and drinks with some of the other
other band members and stuff like
like that . got introduced to the
the crowd as the father in the two
two bodyguards and so through it too
too much foreigners with the father
father here but
but you're not at the end we went
went to a restaurant and we got mugged
mugged by some of these girls and
and they wanted their like a singer
singer
singer yeah
yeah not a lot of things about like
like patch and backstage passes and
and stuff like that and are a bit
bit stupid I was like so over all
all these young girls coming up to
to me like you know how so
so you alive more like oh yeah with
with me okay their
their head and rock star now I mean
mean I giostra possibly get it - and
and then you know kind of regretted
regretted after that I want to keep
keep that as I like I'm a mentor as
as I like it you know sort of souvenir
souvenir or something like that so
so
so but
but you know I was young and silly
silly and you know sort of like affected
affected by women a lot more than
than what I am well
well I it does happen you know it
it happens to the best of us right
right now i'm not a lot of musical
musical talent for me personally I
I do not want nor myself I
I guess what I was younger my mother
mother made me do a little bit of
of like a piano and organ is the fact
fact that it I
I didn't want to play the organ applied
applied the open like this like look
look like a church or not a church
church was more like a rock and roll
roll organ way you can you know change
change the tempo and like a suicide
suicide yes since I putting some backbeats
backbeats and over it i like i like
like an electric keyboard but you
you know you could do the oboe and
and the flute and the drums and you
you could be night soon like you're
you're doing and I enjoyed you know
know but there wasn't really anything
anything you know straight it it didn't
didn't take them yeah
yeah i was just i want to play sport
sport ah well yeah I mean I was younger
younger in my generation sport was
was the man's things sure playing
playing you know musical instrument
instrument was the girls you know
know it's true but I think today's
today's society is a little bit more
more well-rounded sure I think you
you know when you do have children
children you realize what I need
I need to have a little bit like a
a full rounded to know sort of the
the a learning experience in the need
need to learn you know how to sing
sing and they need to go - yeah it's
it's I think it's a good lawyer it's
it's again get on piano and stuff
stuff like that so yet
yet when you start young you know
know you can do something musically
musically than that to keep in good
good stead for the rest of your life
life
life anyway
anyway so we'll we'll let my my friend
friend shannon and go but you can
can say bye bye to everybody all over
over the world is watching this yes
yes thank you very much I've got a
a good time i'll see you again and
and yeah he'll be he'll be joining
joining us i love talking to shannon
shannon he and i always have a good
good time and i'll be back at him
him in just a moment with the special
special mission homework assignment
assignment all about music and really
really going deep for this month by
by Cena
by Cena all
all right and here we are at the special
special mission homework assignment
assignment for this month i hope you
you enjoyed my conversation with Shannon
Shannon and it's a really interesting
interesting chance for you as well
well to listen to the differences
differences between our accents remember
remember that how you sound is not
not so important it's
it's a nice thing to have a native
native British or American or Australian
Australian accent if you want that
that but it's more important for you
you to focus on basic grammar so get
get that down make
make sure you can speak properly and
and then worry about things like pronunciation
pronunciation practice so you can
can sound a lot more native well
well the special mission homework
homework assignment for this month
month is actually quite easy what
what I want you to do is using music
music find some new cds or mp3's or
or videos or anything like that on
on YouTube and really listen to something
something over and over again but
but I want you to go deep with it
it i want you to really master something
something
something and
and in this case I want you to find
find even if it's just one song but
but find something that's pretty popular
popular
popular so
so you can listen to the music and
and actually watch the video so you
you can see how people are moving
moving around you can see their lips
lips moving and another really good
good thing you want to look for when
when choosing a song to practice so
so again just take one song if
if you have a lot of free time and
and you want to listen to more things
things find a whole album so
so an album is like one CD so whatever
whatever you're interested in doing
doing
doing I
I want you to find something that's
that's really popular that
that will give you chances to listen
listen to other versions of the same
same song
same song one
one popular example is 99 red balloons
balloons
balloons you
you can hear the german version of
of this or there are many American
American versions of this song but
but it's really interesting to hear
hear other people or other bands singing
singing the same song in different
different ways so
so just like you get to hear people
people on master English conversation
conversation you get one english sentence
sentence using different grammar points
points or grin a different grammar
grammar tenses and you also get to
to listen to something using different
different voices so
so you want to diversify this means
means to listen to lots of different
different kinds of things but take
take one content one piece of media
media like a song and then listen
listen to that in many different ways
ways so watch the video listen
listen to the song over and over again
again listen two different versions
versions of the song and you will
will really find yourself enjoying
enjoying that music a lot more one
one thing you should do before you
you pick a song is to read the lyrics
lyrics so whatever your song is however
however you want to practice I don't
don't want to tell you a specific
specific thing but find something
something that you can read the lyrics
lyrics first so that you're already
already listening for keywords it's
it's difficult if you start with listening
listening first and then try to go
go back so again that's why you can
can do the same thing with master
master English conversation we have
have five different lesson sets but
but you can go through them in any
any order you like so
so if you want to go through the vocabulary
vocabulary lesson first before you
you listen to the the real conversation
conversation lesson that's a great
great way to practice as well it just
just depends on how you like to practice
practice if you'd like to challenge
challenge yourself more begin with
with the real conversation so
so the same thing this month for finding
finding some piece of music that you
you like but make sure you find something
something that's popular so you can
can listen to different version love
love it you might hear the acoustic
acoustic version this is like just
just using a guitar or just playing
playing the piano and singing this
this is without having like electric
electric instruments like an electric
electric guitar so
so find some popular music that you
you like read the lyrics listen
listen to the song watch the music
music video and really go deep really
really master it just like you're
you're doing with these lessons here
here every time you listen to something
something even now there are songs
songs that I listened to and i didn't
didn't i didn't know that before I
I will find something that I just
just didn't realize was there before
before so just like these lessons
lessons every time you listen to them
them every time you go over and back
back and repeat you'll
you'll find new things that you learn
learn new phrases that come out and
and this is how you build your fluency
fluency
fluency this
this is how we build our fluency in
in our own language and exactly how
how you'll do it in English so find
find some songs and tell me what it
it is you're practicing this month
month so i can tell other students
students what you're practicing and
and really think about finding something
something fun and if you can do more
more than one song that's fantastic
fantastic so do at least one song
song find something that's interesting
interesting with music videos available
available and then tell me what the
the song is well have an excellent
excellent day i will see you next
next month with a brand-new master
master English conversation we're
we're always trying to do new and
and interesting things so
so if you have any questions at all
all or if there's anything you'd like
like to see this course is all about
about you a lot of the techniques
techniques i'm teaching here it's
it's the same thing I use every month
month to continue building my Japanese
Japanese fluency I
I actually like Japanese pop music
music I like a band actually
actually it's one it's a girl j-pop
j-pop it's a little bit embarrassing
embarrassing actually so don't tell
tell anybody her
her name is old Scott I if you're
you're Japanese maybe you know who
who this is but i really like the
the I get very excited about the music
music but it's kind of difficult to
to sing if i try to sew everything
everything I use in these lessons
lessons it's the same things i'm using
using for myself to build my own fluency
fluency in Japanese these are all
all just really practical ways of
of getting out and practicing your
your fluency so
so get out find your music find your
your music videos and
and tell me what they are have a great
great month and i will see you next