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Documenting my 30 day challenge

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.

youtu.be

 

 

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

 

youtu.be

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

youtu.be

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

 

youtu.be

 

 

 

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!

 

youtu.be

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.

youtu.be

 

 

 

 

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.