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 Caption: [Music] hey everyone my name is Ben and you&#39;re listening to a daily dose of English this is a short simple podcast that you can listen to um how how often oh every day to improve your English you can find the transcripts for all episodes and more on Ben language.com I&#39;m glad you can make it today in this episode we&#39;re going to be talking about the guitar the guitar which is a wonderful instrument that I have uh learned in the past and really enjoy it&#39;s definitely of my top instruments I talked about the piano a while ago which is still my favorite instrument but the the guitar might be a little bit under that um I&#39;m not sure if it&#39;s my second favorite or not but it is definitely high up there and part of that is because of its uh it&#39;s flexibility it&#39;s ubiquity so it&#39;s it&#39;s able to be used in lots of different kinds of music lots of different styles there are dozens of kinds of guitar which makes it uh really open-ended right so with a piano there&#39;s not really that many kinds of piano right they sound really similar unless you get into like a keyboard and you can like add whatever sounds you want you can totally change how it sounds but like a traditional piano is only going to have a certain range of sounds but with the guitar you can get anything from a classical n nlon string guitar which have like plastic strings that sound really like open and light and Airy all the way to an acoustic guitar which has metal strings those sound a little bit like stronger uh shinier I think of their sound is very like um shiny and bright um so there&#39;s like this light and airiness from classical guitars um sparkly and and brightness from acoustic guitars and then there&#39;s electric guitars which have just a bajillion sounds because they&#39;re electric right you can totally change how electric guars sound which is also really interesting we&#39;ll get to that in a second um but I learned to play the guitar relatively early I think I talked about this in the piano episode but I started learning to play music when I was pretty young and I was um relatively good at it and so it was pretty easy for me to pick up instruments um which I don&#39;t again I don&#39;t know if I mentioned this but it kind of also made me not pursue music that much because I didn&#39;t like love love it it wasn&#39;t like my favorite thing in the world to do and it was already pretty easy to do like the basics and so I kind of just like stopped really caring which is um I think sort of normal for people that when something is too easy at the beginning you don&#39;t really get interested in getting better because you can just do the easy thing and so like you just sort of stop I wish that I was a little bit like worse at music naturally and I had to put more effort and time in to get even better because I would end I would be a lot better if I put time in but I just didn&#39;t put any time in cuz I was like eh I don&#39;t really care so I wish that I put more time in I I kind of would like to when I have more time in the future I&#39;d love to get a a guitar or a piano to practice with and really dedicate some more time to because I think they&#39;re really amazing instruments anyways um I the guitar was the one that I did put a decent amount of time in into growing up um because it was a lot more interesting I think as as a as a kid it was more relevant in the music that I was listening to every day and it was also I think more sociable right it&#39;s more you can do it with more people my friend was learning guitar we played guitar hero all the time and so it was more yeah it was more of a social thing almost and the guitar like starting is actually pretty easy which is cool you can learn some chords which are when you play several notes at once which sound nice and you can learn to move between the chords and play some songs with and sing relatively quickly which is great it&#39;s a it&#39;s a fantastic way to start and get into uh music it&#39;s a great beginner instrument and it&#39;s also a great expert instrument because there&#39;s such a such a high skill ceiling um a skill ceiling is basically how good somebody can possibly get um so I mean all instruments have a Hu have a humongous uh uh ah skill ceiling God I couldn&#39;t think of that word all instruments have a really really high skill ceiling because they&#39;re just you can do so many things with them but not all of them have a low have a low skill floor right so that&#39;s and that&#39;s where like the the level where it you can be pretty good without that much time or effort so like the piano takes a long time to like be able to do really anything because you have to use all of your fingers at once and sort of separate your your brain and to make something sound okay but with the guitar it&#39;s a lot easier to learn shapes and play the strings and just do something an even lower skill ceiling or yeah lower skill ceiling would be no skill floor sorry even low lower skill floor would be something like the ukulele which is basically a small guitar because there&#39;s just fewer strings to play with and it can sound really good in a day of practice um I bet there&#39;s there&#39;s some instruments with even even lower skill floors but anyways we&#39;re talking about the guitar um I started by playing more typically like rock or metal songs which is what I what I enjoyed listening to and focusing on like individual notes and and playing riffs is a great thing so riffs is with there a sequence of notes that um you learn right to play some to like sound like something um and learning riffs was always really fun because it&#39;s recognizable it&#39;s cool it sounds it&#39;s good with your music that sort of thing um and yeah what was I going to there was another thing I was going to talk about um I don&#39;t remember where do I want to go with this because I could talk about like the the the electric guitar yeah you know what let&#39;s talk about the electric guar the electric guitar cuz that&#39;s something that I like I think even more than acoustic guitars because they have this like you can sort of choose your own sound you can develop your sound there are um a lot of ways to modify the sound because what&#39;s happening is that you&#39;re this instrument that you&#39;re playing has these strings that vibrate but then those strings are being picked up or or being like heard by some some not digital it&#39;s not they&#39;re not digital it&#39;s an analog electric thing to amplify the sound which is um it&#39;s not as fancy as it sounds but basically you&#39;re taking these this these notes and turning them into electrical signals which then can create those notes again but louder right so if you take if you unplug an electric guitar and you play the notes you still hear them if you put your ear close to them but it&#39;s not very loud because the strings aren&#39;t like vibrating enough stuff to create sound and so an electric guitar takes those vibrations electronically electrically and amplifies them to make them much much much louder or a little bit louder depending on you can turn up the sound or turn down the sound um but the cool thing is you can pass that sound through filters basically there are things that you can do with electricity to change the frequency The Wave in lots of different ways which is actually more mathematical than it is like uh anything else which is pretty cool but what happens is you get these very different sounds so that still sound to us like a guitar because we know them as guitars but you can get very different effects on the guitars which I think is really really interesting so one of the most common ones is Distortion where the sound is is distorted changed or or or warped a little bit to sound different than like what the string is actually doing this is very common in metal music and a lot of different kinds of musics because you can you can distort it a lot a little bit to get a a distinct sound a good Distortion uh oh and by the way with with guitars it&#39;s usually a pedal that is doing the distorting where the sound goes in one side of the pedal it it changes it and then it puts it out the other side because that way you can turn it on and off with your foot while you&#39;re playing the guitar so you can turn on the Distortion off the Distortion just with using your foot instead of like a button um and so like electric guitarists that are playing for a long time usually develop their own like set of pedals that they use often to create their own unique sound that is like that kind of of music I really only see in guitars I&#39;m there are plenty of other instruments that do something similar but I haven&#39;t seen it as like guitar is the most popular I think probably the most popular instrument in the world Maybe I&#39;m Wrong on that because of like some countries that where it&#39;s less popular but at least in the western world it&#39;s it&#39;s one of the most popular instruments so that it&#39;s one of the most developed like Industries almost I wonder how much the guitar industry itself is worth um and people have just their own different unique sound and and whatnot so anyways I&#39;m starting to ramble we&#39;re getting to the end of this episode and uh so I just want to say yeah the guitar is a great place to start if you&#39;re curious on about music try to find a secondhand relatively cheap guitar and just start learning it it&#39;s not uh super duper difficult there&#39;s a lot of it&#39;s a lot easier than many other instruments there are lower barriers to entry and if you can find a relatively cheap guitar to just start playing with you can have a lot of fun with music in not too much practice just make sure to keep practicing or else your fingers are going to get weak and it&#39;s going to hurt a lot um but that is everything for this episode on the guitar sorry that it didn&#39;t really have a point uh but I&#39;m I guess do any of these episodes have a point probably not I just talk for like 10 minutes but anyways uh thank you so much for listening I hope that you enjoyed and maybe you learn a little something new and I&#39;ll see you again tomorrow for another episode of a daily dose of English with me with Ben have a good one bye
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Title: Daily Dose of English 179 - The Guitar