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Let me just open the episode first.
Welcome to 英語で雑談！Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Yeah, so the focus on the English focus on the English was our kind of plan
Okay, but look you'll just dig in and see what happens a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, I mean
LAでの音楽の旅
So you went to LA?
To start music or to learn music?
Learn to learn music. I'm
Nobody. Okay. I was nobody at that time
How was your English level?
Level minus one
When did you go to LA? How many years ago?
Yeah, I when I was a 22 22. Mm-hmm. And I'm sorry 20 years ago or something. Yeah
Like that year they have in the terrorist act
Yeah, okay, yeah, mm-hmm so yeah, I wasn't studying English at all. Oh damn
But I understood I understood
My roommate's English. Oh, I don't know why
Was he like what country was he from?
Costa Rica and I feel like oh, I see
Right. Yeah, so you just catch from them naturally kind of maybe
Not language. No feeling
Yeah, I caught them I
Really don't I
Really didn't understand the especially like political TV program. Yeah, that's difficult
Yeah, so
whenever Xena
La I started to play the piano. Mm-hmm, and
I
Don't I didn't have?
Mm-hmm any friends. I'm super alone and
Of course no money
So that that is
mmm
Bad things in my life
Yeah
Best a best thing. Yeah, because I have me much time. Okay, or you know music?
yeah, I was like
Not like practice I I just I was a fool around
You know the piano all day and at night I went to like
Live shows
It used to be super cheap, okay
and also I
Had only
Student visa. Yeah, it means like I cannot work
so that's why I started to you know, play the piano and I I
Went to I often went to downtown to have street gigs
Okay by myself, okay, I had a car
And yeah, that's why I had no money
And a co3 so my parents only my parents. Yeah, I really remember so my parents
sent me like
40,000 yen
Yeah, that was not enough right
And
Yeah, that the rent was I remember I do remember so
Hyaku-go-ji-do
Hyaku-go-ji-do. Yeah, so I
I was living in it's like dormitory. Yeah
Not room share
Room share that I know I was I was living in the literally living room
Yeah, so like small partition I made it I
Didn't have any in a private but I didn't care
so I have
Maybe I used to have don't conduct
Yeah, so I
Was I was practicing the piano like for
10 or 15
hours a day and
You know, I performed
At first at first only three songs to stand by me and
Yeah, I can sing Mononoke Hime, but it's so creepy
Yeah, but it's a who me who
Yeah, yeah, I used to say I used to sing
Mononoke Hime in Kochi in Kochi so before I became a musician
so under the bridge is called the
Tenjinbashi, and I was singing
So high school Joshi Kosei, so like denied me
Creepy guy. Yeah
and I
Cannot say this. It's a it's a Hosokodo. Yeah, Hosokodo's
people
Come together. So with the ishobin
Yeah
18
But you have nice voice and high
They got a good sense then yeah, yeah
Anashi Anashi Thunder
Three songs. Yeah, so so like looks like black people came to me
When when black people came to me I I was singing like
Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder
Yeah
first of all, so I put
my
10 bucks or
20 bucks the box right so each yet the money like that between the keys. Okay, you keys?
Yeah, and uh, is that normal? No, I don't think so
Usually like people in a like little box. Yeah, like a little yeah. Yeah, like a coin box. Yeah
But he filled the bill. Yeah, I see. Okay. Sometimes I didn't have the
microphone
yeah, so do it so and uh playing and uh
everybody gather on me and
Marvin Gaye
What's going on? I remember and Stevie Wonder so ribbon in the sky. Yeah
The it looks like Asian people went when they come to
came to me. Uh, I
Sang when with the alcohol
Or like some Chinese song, okay, maybe go
Mmm Chinese ghost history's theme or something. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you played in the
Little Tokyo. Mm-hmm. Yeah
Where so like a TV, yeah, yeah when you were back like 20 years ago you played yeah
Oh, okay, little like close to the fountain. Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Right next to the Japanese grocery store, yeah
So I get actually many you know tips
Yeah, because of the Asian community. Yeah
but many
No, really kinds of yeah
Yeah, so your reaction. So the the reactions of the people of the LA
Mostly positive just positive in the street. Okay
Well, um, it's a little abstract sorry, you know, but I'm you said you mentioned a will meet at a call so
I'm not sure if it's like a load officially or not. Yeah, but it's it's
音楽の融合
It's on the on YouTube. You can find the demo version. Oh
Like we'll meet that cool the gospel. Yes gospel version. Yes. It's a for TVS. Yeah
Ishi Bashi Takahashi
TV program. Yeah, so I don't think it's like officially uploaded or something. Mm-hmm, but somebody upload it
Illegally, I'm sure and then when I was university student in in a couple we were in a couple of circle and then oh you
Yeah, and I found that demo version of a well-made alcohol and I got me like
Wow
That was super like powerful. Like it's like you should you should check that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let me go to YouTube
Yeah, I mean, oh you sing everybody
Right. Yeah
Yeah, I've watched that you're you guys are oh like
Yeah
Yeah, but yeah that one you should you saw that when you were yeah
When where did where was he singing that is it? I don't know. It's like I'm just like you
Yeah, it's movie, but you don't it's just a picture and just with the oh, yeah. Yeah
Yeah, yes. Yes. Yes, and he recorded like everything like with a beatbox and I like a chorus things
Yeah
So simple. Yeah. Wow
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, that is yeah. I strongly I do. I really want to do that. So like
the music mixed
Japanese
traditional beautiful melody meets
You know, yeah, New York jazz and funk
That's why so only you know the wisdom music that you know
the only
Japanese
man or women or
May only can make
Really kind of similar to what you're looking for, right?
Blend the old traditional Japanese with like
Modern version. Yeah, kind of similar to like blending in the yeah
Well, I'm on that way. Yeah, really like I'm just stepping in that journey. He's like wait
Way, you know
We hire like in the mountains, but yeah, I feel like I'm tracking like a the same kind of yeah, like
kind of you know
music like a style kind of
And so that's why I was really happy
I like I like you guys to check the my songs. It's called the
Sakura no yami no shinadora. Mm. It's a melody is like, you know
Japanese scale Japanese actually has a
Pentatonic scale so like just like other many countries. Yeah
Interesting. It's like so like pentatonic scale. It's like, you know, what do go? What's that? I do?
Like an anchor anchor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's how he's like
Like an anchor anchor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's like skill is like the notes that you're using in this. Oh, okay
That's a major scale major scale. Yeah, and you have like different
Scales. Mm-hmm. Okay, and you have one of that is like a pentatonic scale penitent. Yeah, that's what's called. Yeah
Means five, right?
So and
Did it
Yeah, so like Japanese that the Koto
Yeah, so I really love that that kind
Feats us
Yeah more than wisdom people
Yeah, this is a like, you know track so beats
Harmony is a really Western super complicated
harmony
On that on that. So Japanese melody
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah, cuz you gotta like a blues scale yeah, that's like for the blues music
This is a anchor for you know black people. Yeah, somehow it's kind of
like that the
You know additional, you know one one
It's a blue blue note right? Mm-hmm flat five. Mm-hmm. Okay
It's so bright, right? Yeah
No
So the flat five including
When you hear like like a blues songs or like soul R&B music you got like
That's like that that's it like a mini you flat one. No, and it
Yeah, guitar can be you know
Uh-huh
Yonbu noichi flat or you know, our flat towards the thing. Okay. Yeah
So let me um, sorry, um, let me talk about the recording session that we did together. Mm-hmm
Okay, you know, yeah for the song gotta get up. Okay
We're in this one studio like vocal recording studio and we got a demo version of the song
Mm-hmm, and then we met together and that was the first time like actually actually yeah. Yeah, we
and then
Start recording. Okay, and then
The preciseness, okay, oh he's like vocals
Oh was so amazing to me. Uh-huh. And one thing I've like strongly
Remembers like that song has like 16 like beat like
Yeah
Yeah, like them of course the scale of preciseness that's one but like a rhythmically like preciseness like a
16th nose and then when he like sing a song
If everything fits in that yeah
Sound even like vibratos. Yeah, it reached the knobs and everything. So like
under
Chavo, that's the song today in a sec. I know darkness is a no beads, right? Yeah, no grooves
No group
under
trouble
By bottle and uh, you know accent
Right
Stop silence. It's a silence is so important. Yeah
音楽技術の探索
I mean, I mean we love music. We love singing right and we hear many times like beat on your nose
Oh, yeah, you know groove. You know, you thought that a couple even then we hear that
I hear that that was my like standard, but he was like
Like it's not like beat on your nose anymore, but you create that beat without without beats
You know, and I was like, oh, this is you should be like brutal. Uh, yeah
Yeah, yeah, oh this is how
professionals are like seeing the songs and I was that was so it's slightly
Mmm different from like, you know karaoke super skills. Mm-hmm. It's like karaoke. You don't
Mmm, you don't have to groove right, you know, you you can you know, right on the
page or vibrato and fake or something, but it's uh, I would say that's a
Do it you can do you you you're wrong, you know, my wrong version of a vibrato
This is more like this is more like forcing my voice
I'm putting like a not unnatural force
Okay, sometimes I'm not sure vibrato is I think sexy
so
So like cheery man cheery man vibrato
So like but sometimes you know
You know, the vibrato would be like too much. It's a too
Yeah, too cruel to too professional
Yeah, yeah
Not sensitive yeah sometimes without vibrato would be like
Yeah, I prefer it
It's a it right when you when you sorry for the like
When you when you do like vibrato vibratos
Are you like?
like pitch wise you like you changing the pitches or like you changing like like the power or like
breath or
Everything yeah, like, you know, uh, for example carpenters the current carpenters
she
Tend to like
The under the pitch, okay, okay. Why do why do
It's like yeah, correct. No, why why do
Down yeah, why do
It's always over. Yeah
Okay, so like
soulful, you know
Gospel tend to be like, you know
But really so melancholy one is like under
But to under 200 is a flat. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's way too difficult
I can't even I can't I couldn't tell the difference between the
With the shot that was saying to me. I didn't I didn't catch that
But
It's it's like have something like, you know habit
So you have your own style, yeah
Trying to get that vibrato technique
Yeah, yeah, I do I
Mean, I want to steal everything I can from from Sakai. So I didn't like to be a better singer, you know
What do you want to steal from him the most?
Ah many things many things though
Yes, really
Rhythms
And like pitches, of course like the the tone up like a preciseness the pitches
Okay, the two things one is like ad-lib Oh ad-libs on the cause like the riffs and runs
Ah
Like I know I like gospel. Yeah, or an anchor song. Yeah, and I love doing that but like the amount of freedom that he has
Those things, you know, it has like you can sing three tons of choices like he can pull anything he won't like
I can only have like 10 15, you know
Go let you know
You're go to go to go to riffs
But he's not like like tons of like, you know everything and that's one
okay, and the second one is like that's tonality like a
sound like like a ah
That's just like, you know
Can I yeah
You can do that and he can he can monomani a many people and that's that's the the freedom of his
like yeah
For example, like what?
Fun so yeah, and that's for Yamashita. Oh, yeah
What I sound
Right, yeah, I have like five or six or seven maybe ten
Yeah
Singers, you know in me inside me
So and uh, so he can put those, you know different voices in one song
I don't
Like, you know, I didn't choose so I was magically, you know, so like wow
Yeah
So
sometimes, you know
Should be chest voice
should be
face voice
should be head voice
Should be well, it's a rare so stomach voice. It's like, you know classical music. Oh, yeah
Yeah, it's like chest, okay
Oh, yeah, it's something like that. So wow, I I don't know how to do that
Yeah, yeah, so it's like a freedom this is amazing like what about what about so super softly
Mm-hmm
Okay
Really nice voice. Yeah different from the one but laughing voice
Yeah
I'm a why you could get skinny
I'm a who kiss a genie. Yeah
Like very different from the one you sing
What I usually know if you're trying to sing it's a not good. I think so. It's a it's a talk
Oh, okay. I tell some something
Trying to sing yeah, that happens. So it's just like speech speaking singing
I think so. This is my opinion. Just my opinion
Yeah, I mean, oh no, there's a many too many things that I would need to ask not a Christmas Eve
さかいゆうの音楽と友情
Anything you see in him that shines oh, I wanna yes, I want to know that. Yeah, please
Yeah
Should we end the podcast?
Anything like is there anything in Yamachan that shines shine you see you lying him
Shines, yeah, you liked
I
His friends his friend are beautiful
Wow, it's like the biggest this you can get to
Give to an artist, right?
I gave him all
Nicknames
Is a big picture and a pastel, okay
Yeah
The macho guy and like they're all good people. Yeah. Yeah, right cut to have a hero
Yeah, we have a hero yeah, right they're all good people yes, I
Really? Yes circle of friends. Yes, very beautiful. Yes
I mean, yeah, well, yeah, but anything around his like musical skills. Yeah
Great great that he has great friends, but yeah, yeah, like his wives
Very bright, yeah
Lifting. Mm-hmm. I get that. Yeah, I agree. Okay. Okay. Very uplifting. Well, thank you as a human, right? Yeah. Thank you
Yeah, I do. Yes, and I also appreciate positive voice. Yeah
Positive voice good. Yeah. Yeah positive voice. Oh, that's that's musical. That's musical. Yes
Yes
Yeah, good friends
positive voice
Yeah, I got one I got one try that yeah, yeah, yeah great it's enough
Yes, yeah
Yeah
Okay, cool, yeah
So one last message to the audience your album y'all's album. Mm-hmm
Yeah, our song is in his album. Got it. And the name of the album is
Pasadena Pasadena. Yeah, and it's gonna be released
Like
In our song gotta get up is it's all really it's out it's already out. Yes on all the platforms
Yes, name is gotta get up. Gotta get out super popular. Yes
Yes
Topping the chart. Yeah
Yeah, you can find that in music the video on YouTube to right
Well, yeah, awesome, okay, so y'all check that out, right? All right, so
Is it like really rare that you speak this amount of English in front of like
This one, yeah, it's really
That's the concept game, right? Yeah, that's a game. Yeah
Yeah, I I never changed my personality. So in English and Japanese
It's the same always. Yeah, some people is really changed, right? Yeah
Somebody gets aggressive. Yeah. Yeah, right, right, right. You didn't change. I didn't change
Yeah, I don't you agree with that. I'm trying. Yeah, I do. I don't agree. Yeah. Yeah, dude, but
Yeah, he said that repeatedly I've got like a South African kind of
Yeah, but I get it it's like all mixed it's not American, of course, it's not British. Well, it's Japanese so
Elon Musk food you
Chico accent was much a little American nothing. Yeah
Anyway, there you go guys. I'm so happy that I that I got a you know, I got a positive voice
I was in a boy. Yes, you have a positive. Yes. That's that's right. Great. I'm so happy. Yeah
I don't yeah, hopefully we'll many more to come back. Yeah
Moment has been so
Yeah, okay, but thank you for being here so much for me here come back anytime, please yes
All right. So, uh, thanks listening guys. Thank you. Bye. Bye
