New challenges!
Hi! It's been a while.
I'm going to start a new 30-days-challenge today!
30-DAYS-PIANO challenge!
I'm going to practice the piano an hour a day until the end of September.
I've never played piano. I'm really looking forward to see how much will my piano skills get better.
AND! I have another challenge. I have nothing to do because of the coronavirus.
I decided to take a vocal lesson! September is like music month for me. I wish I could sing with the piano.
I like Sam Smith a lot. So... I'm gonna sing and play his song: TO DIE FOR.
There are a lot of video teaching how to play the song in Youtube. I love the internet!
It's so genius!
どうも! 久々の投稿ですがいきなり新たな30日間挑戦始めます。
日本語にするとダサさがある。。。
挑戦の内容としてはピアノと歌の練習を1日1時間ずつ続けます。
9月は音楽の月ですわ。
前回の挑戦も音楽関連だったので大差ないような気もしますが気にしない。
最終的にはサム・スミスのTO DIE FORを弾き語れたらいいなと思います。
前回の30日間洋楽ディクテーションチャレンジの最終目標がエミネムのrap godを聴き取りたいという無謀な目標を立てていたので今回は現実的に実行できそうな目標にしました。歌は上手いか下手かの問題なのでどうでもいいけど、ピアノは弾けるか弾けないか如実に目標達成か否かがわかるので結果がわかりやすくてよろしいですね。
今回はピアノや歌を動画で記録するので動画編集スキルも一緒に磨いてしまおうという二兎追うもの一兎をも得ずならぬ三兎追っちゃいます!
まあ暇なので三兎獲得できると思います!!
If you run after two hares, you will not catch either one.
I'm gonna chase more than two rabits!!!
Thank you for reading!
30 days challenge DAY-30! XO
Final DAY!
Final Song
The very last song is XO by Beyonce.
There are many great songs of hers, but I chose XO.
This song sounds like a really, really good ending song of an immense love story. So I did this song.
Okay! Let's get started!!
Dictation
XO by Beyonce
Your love is bright as ever
Even in the shadows
Baby, kiss me
Before they turn the lights out
Your heart is glowing
And I'm crashing into you
Baby, kiss me
Before they turn the lights out
Before they turn the lights out
Baby, love me lights out
In the darkest night hour,
I'll search through the crowd
Your face is all that I see
I'll give you everything
Baby, love me lights out
Baby, love me lights out
You can turn my lights out
We don't have forever
Ooh, baby, daylight's wasting
You better kiss me
Before our time has run out
Ooh Yeah yeah
Nobody sees what we see
They're just hopelessly gazing
Oh, baby, take me, me
Before they turn the lights out
Before our time has run out
Baby, love me lights out
In the darkest night hour,
I'll search through the crowd
You face is all that I see
I'll give you everything
Baby, love me lights out
Baby, love me lights out
You can turn my lights down
I love you like XO
You love me like XO
You kill me boy XO
You love me like XO
All that I see
Give me everything
Baby, love me lights out
Baby, love me lights out
You can turn my lights down
In the darkest night hour,
I'll search through the crowd
Your face is all that I see
I'll give you everything
Baby, love me lights out
Baby, love me lights out
You can turn my lights down
Summary
I'm not sure the lyrics are right or not.
In every concert, she sings differently.
And I looked up many websites writing the lyrics
They also differ. 😀
It doesn't matter to me. My lyrics are right!
So it's all good!
30 days challenge DAY-29 We Are Young
Today's song
I like this song.
My anthem for drinking the night away.
Dictation
We Are Young by Fun. ft. Janelle Monae
Give me a second, I
I need to get my story straight
My friends are in the bathroom,
getting higher than the Empire State
My love, she is waiting for me
Just across the bar
My seat's been taken by some sunglasses
Asking about her scare
And I know I gave it to you months ago
I know you trying to forget
But between drinks and subtle things
The holes in my apologies, you know
I'm trying hard to get back
So if by the time the bar closes
And you feel like falling down
I'll carry you home
Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter
Than the sun
Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter
Than the sun
Now I know that I'm not all that you got
I guess that I, I just thought
Maybe we can find new ways to fall apart
But our friends are back
So let's raise a toast
Cause I found someone to carry me home
Tonight
we are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter than the sun
Tonight
we are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter than the sun
Carry me home tonight
Just carry me home tonight
Carry me home tonight
Just carry me home tonight
The moon is on my side
I have no reason to run
So will someone come and carry me home tonight
The angels never arrived
But I can hear the choir
So will someone come and carry me home tonight
Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter
Than the sun
Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter
Than the sun
So if by the time the bar closes
And you feel like falling down
I'll carry you home
Tonight
Summary
Perfect...?
I don't want to find any mistake so I don't search.
So it's perfect!!
30 days challenge DAY-28 Open Arms
Today's song
Open Arms by Journey
Am I homesick or something?
I'm choosing sad songs for two days in a row.
Dictation
Open Arms by Journey
Lying beside you
Here in the dark
Feeling your heartbeat with mine
Softly you whisper
You're so sincere
How could I love you so blind
we sail on together
We've drifted apart
and here you are by my side
So now I come to you
with open arms
Nothing to hide
Believe what I say
So here I ?
am
With open arms
Hoping you'll see
What your love means
Open arms
Living without you
Living alone
This empty house seems so cold
? ing for you
Wanting to hold you
Wanting you near
How much I wanted you home
Now that you've come back
Tonight is today
Turned night into day
I need you to stay
So now I come to you
With open arms
Nothing to hide
Believe What I say
So here I am
With open arms
Hoping you'll see
What your love means to me
Open arms
Summary
This song was more difficult than I expected.
But it was easier compared to other difficult songs
30 days challenge DAY-27 Stay
Today's song
Stay by Rihanna ft. Mikky Ekko
Dictation
Stay by Rihanna
All along it was a fever
A cold sweat, hot-headed believer
I threw my hands in the air
say show me something
He said if you dare come a little closer
Round and round and round and round we go
Oh now, tell me, now tell me, now tell me, now you know
Not really sure how to feel about it
something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay
It's not much of life you're living
a
It's not just something you take it's given
Round and round and round and round we go
Oh now tell me, now tell me, now tell me, now you know
Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
and I want you to stay
Ooh, The reason I hold on
Ooh, cause I need this hole gone
Funny you're the broken one
But I'm the only one who needed saving
Cause when you never see the light
It's hard to know which one of us is caving
Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay
stay
I want you to stay
Ooh
Summary
Almost perfect!!
30 days challenge DAY-26 Cell Block Tango
Today's song
is from a musical
Cell Block Tango!
I don't even remember what is this musical about?
But I remember this song. This is really catchy.
Dictation
Pop
Six
Squish
Uh uh
Cicero
Lipschitz
And now the six merry murderesses of the Cook County jail
In their rendition of the Cell Block Tango
Lipschitz
Pop
Six
Squish
Uh uh
Cicero
Lipschitz
Pop
Six
Squish
Uh uh
Cicero
Pop
Six
Squish
Uh uh
Cicero
Lipschitz
Pop
Six
Squish
Uh uh
Cicero
Lipschitz
He had it coming, he had it coming
He only had himself to blame
If you'd have been there
If you'd have seen it
I bet you would have done the same
Pop
Six
Squish
Uh uh
Cicero
Lipschitz
Pop
Six
Squish
Uh uh
Cicero
Lipschitz
You know how people have these little habits
that get you down
Like バーニー
Bernie
Bernie, he liked to chew gum
No, not chew, POP
So I came home this one day
And I'm really irritated
And I'm looking for a little bit of sympathy
And there's Bernie lying on the couch, drinking a beer, and chewing
No, not chewing, POPPIN'
So I said to him
I said, "you pop that gum one more time..."
And he did
So I took the shotgun off the wall and I fired two warning shots
Into his head
He had it coming, he had it coming
He only had himself to blame
If you'd have been there
If you'd have heard it
I bet you would have done the same
...
I met WHO? from salt lake city
Ezequiel Young
about two years ago
And he told me he was a single
And we hit it off right away
So we started living together
He'd go to work, he'd come home
I'd fixed him a drink
We'd have a dinner
And then I found out
single he told me
Single my ass
Not only he was married
Oh no
He had six wives
One of those women
Mormons
You know
So that night he came home from work
I fixed him his drink as usual
You know some guys can't hold their ? neck
arsenic
He had it coming, he had it coming
He took the flowers in its prime
And then he used it and he abused it
It was a murder but not a crime
Now I'm standing in the kitchen
Carvin a chicken for dinner
Carving up
Minding my own business
In storms, my husband Will ? jealous rage
Wilbur in a
"You've been screwing with the milkman" he said
He was crazy
And kept on screaming
"You've been screwing with the milkman"
And he ran into mu knife
then
He ran into my knife ten times
If you'd have been there
If you'd have seen it
I bet you would have done the same
Foreign language
Yeah, but did you do it?
Uh uh
Not guilty
My sister Veronica and I had this double act
And my husband Charlie traveled around with us
???
With the last number in our act
we did these twenty acrobatics in a row
1,2,3,4,5...
So this one night before the show
We're down at the hotel at the Cicero
The three of us boozing? and having a few laughs
And we run out of ice
ran
so I go out get some
I come back
Open the door
And there's Veronica and Charlie
Doing number 17
???
The spread eagle
Well, I was in such a state of shock
I completely blacked out
I can't remember a thing
It wasn't until later
when I was washing the blood off my hands
I even knew they were dead
They had it coming, they had it coming
They had it coming all along
I didn't do it
But if I've done it
How could you tell me that I was wrong?
They had it coming, they had it coming
They had it coming all along
I didn't do it
But if I've done it
How could you tell me that I was wrong?
I loved ?? Lipschitz more than I could possibly say
Alvin Lipshutz
He was a real artistic guy
sensitive a painter
But he was always trying to find himself
He go out every night, looking to himself
And on the way, he found L?R? who? who? and who?
Ruth, Gladys, Rosemary, and Irving
I guess you could say we broke up because of artistic differences
he saw himself alive
as
And I saw him dead
They had it coming, they had it coming
They had it coming all along
Cause they used us
if
And they abused us
How could you tell us that we were wrong?
He had it coming he had it coming
He only had himself to blame
If you'd have been there
If you'd have been seen it
I bet you would have done the same
I betcha you would
Pop
Six
Squish
Uh uh
Cicero
Lipschitz
Summary
Why did I choose this song?
It's too long.
It was really difficult to distinguish the 短縮形.shortend form
30 days challenge DAY-25 Save This Love
It's day-25!!
Five more? Four more? days!
Today's song
is by a Japanese singer: Vickeblanka.
Save This Love
He was born and grow up in Japan. So he's not a native English speaker, I think.
Dictation
Save This Love by Vickeblanka
Look at me before you leave
Babe, I'm talking to you
Still I don't want to believe
That we are breaking in two
Pictures frozen in time are becoming clearer
I've been dying inside
Tell me it's not all in my head
Hope you take my hand to save this love
I'll do anything to save this love
Save this love
Sing me a love song again
Like we were the same
Back where we're the same
Don't let me awake in this dark side
Sing me a love song again
Right now I'm saving this love
Look at me before you leave
Babe, I'm talking to you
Still I don't want to believe that we are breaking in two
Pictures frozen in time are becoming clearer
I've been dying inside
Tell me it's not all in my head
Hope you take my hand to save this love
I'll do anything to save this love
Save this love
Sing me a love song again
Back? when we were the same
Don't let me awake in this dark side
Sing me a love song again
Right now I'm saving this love
...
Right now I'm saving this love
I'm saving this love
...
Sing me a love song again
Back where we're the same
Don't let me awake in this dark side
Sing me a love song again
I'm saving this love
Summary
To be honest, this song is not good.
For dictation, this is good, because words used in this song are simple and easy to hear. But as a song it's vain.
It's typical that English learners try to speak English using words they already know. So their words lack vocabulary.
And I think "sing me a love song again" should be "sing me the love song again". By using "the" instead of "a", it gives this song a story. It makes listeners think about their song which he/she sang with their lover together.