Dear The Reader
Despite being a musician and a music teacher I have written next to no music lessons for this blog. Let's remedy that now.
Everybody knows musicians are the sexiest people in the world. Even ACDC are still sleeping with girls (which is a modern day miracle, those guys are dinosaurs). But there seem to be a lot of musicians out there. To get a leg up on the competition it helps to know some musical terms. Not only do they make you sound like a great musician, they're also in Italian, the sexiest language in the world.
Piano and forte - soft and loud. These are the easiest to remember. They describe the volume of the music. Say mezzopiano and mezzoforte for slightly soft or loud, and pianissimo and fortissimo for very soft or loud.
Adagio and allegro - slow and fast. These are words to indicate the tempo or speed of the song.
Ostinato - a piece of music that is repeated. For example, a guitar riff is an ostinato. It just sounds classier.
Motif - the main theme or character portrayed in the music. Obvious motifs are Christine and the Phantom's themes in the Phantom of the Opera for the girls, and Darth Vader's theme from Star Wars for the classless guys.
Libretto - very handy if you're taking your lady to the opera. This booklet contains the words so you can follow along. Because most operas are in Italian you can often find a translation online to print, if they don't have some at the opera house already.
Use these words and others will be so impressed you will never need another pick up line again.
Educate. Entertain. Inspire.
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And I keep learning more about you. Go on, keep impressing me. After all, you've totally hit the nail on the head with this one. Don't we all want to sleep with the muso? Oh, wait... Did that already. Not everything it's cracked up to be.
ReplyDeleteMaybe sexy Italian words work for a brief while, but there better be some substance behind the romance.