Uh! Have you already started
shooting the lesson? Oh my God! Did you hear me singing that pathetically? Oh I'm sorry,
I'm so sorry, that was really bad. Sorry about it. Do you also like singing? I really love
singing. It's so much fun. If you like singing and you also like to talk about it, then please
stay with me. This lesson is going to be fun for you. I'm Michelle and I'm going to teach
you some interesting ways to talk about music and also some vocabulary related to music
that you may not know before.
Starting here, the first word here. I hope all of you know that what I was singing just
now is actually called a song. And when this song is recorded on a tape, it's recorded
on a CD is called a track. I'm so stupid I can just leave this I'm not singing anymore.
Here the next one that we have is a number. This is also another word for a song and this
is used more informally and these two here are formal informal both. You can also say
that my favourite number is all of you by John Legend or anything like my favourite
track is whatever it is. The next one lyrics. Have you heard that word
before? Are you confused about the meaning? Do you know the difference between lyrics
and subtitles? Maybe not. So let me help you. Lyrics actually mean the words of a song.
So the song that I was singing, in that the words are you can keep me inside the pocket
of your ripped jeans. These are the lyrics; this does not have any tune. Lyrics are only
words. But what do we call the tune of a song? As I just said it can be either called the
tune or a melody. This refers to the music in a song and these are the words of a song
called lyrics. And what are subtitles. I'll write it for you here sub titles. They are
the words that you see on a screen in a movie. When you are watching a movie you will see
certain words flashing beneath the screen, under the screen or sorry below the screen,
those words are called sub titles. They help you understand the movie better and lyrics
help you understand the song better. You must have seen many videos on YouTube saying that
so and so song with lyrics, with lyrics that's what it means that the video also has words.
So please go and click on the links which also say they have lyrics, they will help
you improve your English. This is one way of improving your English. Instrumental piece,
Instrumental, ta da ta da, what does this mean? Maybe this one or maybe this one? This
refers to the instruments of music like a guitar or a violin and that's what we call
an instrumental piece, does not have any lyrics. It has only music. I really enjoy listening
to instrumental music. Piece here also means a piece of music like a song. But this is
not a song because this does not have words; it only has instruments, only music, that's
why it's called a piece and not a song. No words only music.
Singer, what I was trying to be in the beginning of the video and I'm a very bad one and you
must have heard bathroom singer also. The person who doesn't sing out that's what I
am. And a singer otherwise is a person whose voice is recorded CDs or in movies, or as
tracks. They are worldwide, they are shared and everyone listens to them. That person
is called a singer. Moving on to duet. Duet actually refers to a song in which two people
are singing. A song where two people are singing. If you like a duet song then instead of just
saying I like a song, you can tell your friend that the song that I like the most is a duet
song and in that song the singers are may be Celine Dion and R Kelly. My favourite duet
is I'm your angel. The next one, solo. Solo is the opposite of duet where only one person
is singing, only one person is singing. If you like a solo song instead of just saying
I like so and so song, you could say I like this solo song be it whatever. In my case
I might say that I like all of me by John Legend. I like this solo song because it is
only one person who is singing not more than one. Concert, have you ever heard this before.
So concert is a live event where there's one singer or there could be more than one singer
and also there's a large number of people watching the person sing. And where's the
person singing? They are singing on a stage and the other people are below the stage.
So it is an on stage performance. It's not recorded in a camera; it is live, happening
at that moment. Happening live on stage. The singer is standing on the stage.
That's what a concert is and I just told you, audience. Who are the audience? The people
who are watching that person sing and what are they doing, they are like Wooo, Woo. What's
that? That's hooting or some people even whistle, that's bad manners. So you can say that the
audience are generally hooting. All the people below the stage were watching that person
sing. Musical festival. Uhh so a concert lasts for a few hours. It could be like 5 hours,
okay or may be more than that. But it's a span of hours. But musical festival lasts
for more than hours. It lasts for days. It goes on for such a number of days. Then there
are many artists performing every day. Happens over a period of days.
Right, this is what we have learnt vocabulary related to singing and now we are going to
learn how to say if you like a song and how to say if you don't like a song, it could
be anyways. It is a timeless classic. What do we mean
by timeless? Something that never loses its grace or a quality. It's also popularly known
as evergreen. Something that is evergreen never loses its grace. Only a song that is
heard over many years. Many years may be people have been hearing it for 15 years already
that kind of a song is also called a classic. Twenty years sometimes even 50 years. It's
a timeless classic. Can you think of any such song? I know one such song. It's the title
track for Titanic, every night in my dreams, that's a timeless classic. It has been heard
over all these years and still whenever we hear it, we love it. We feel very happy. So
if you like any song like that, you can tell your friend, that I like this song and this
song is a timeless classic. It was a smash hit. Smash hit means the song
was very popular, everyone loved it. It was on the lips of everyone at that time. That's
what it means. Very popular. Could be that this song was at the top of the Billboard
charts and most popular song at that time. If you know any such song, leave me in the
comments. It's very cheesy. Do you think you will use
it for a good song, if you like a song? Naah I don't think so. The words cheesy means cheap.
So probably you don’t like the lyrics, may be they offend you. Maybe you find the lyrics
are not very meaningful and they have just forced it, then you can say, it's very cheesy,
I wouldn’t like to listen to it. But let me just warn you, this is a slightly rude
comment. So before you say it, you should be a bit careful. Make sure you say it only
with the people, who are very close to you. Slightly rude. This one here, it's too unlikely
the music I normally listen to. Unlikely means not like. So if you listen to romantic music,
you may not, May not like rock music or jazz music. So at that time if someone is playing
that and you do not want to hear it, you can tell that person, “Sorry, it's very unlike
the music I listen to, I normally listen to romantic music." So that will help you explain
your choice to that person. Unlike means not like.
I'm really happy that you've learnt all these phrases to talk about singing. Maybe if you
are a singer in the making and if you are really wonderful at singing, you become a
singer and that’s where you can use these phrases or if you are a bathroom singer like
me, then just use it in the bathroom. Alright, thank you so much for being with
me. I hope to see you again with another video and an even more interesting topic. See you
very soon, tudos!