José Lanot
Hi, I´m José, I´m a musicician and sound engineer.
Location I live in Madrid, Spain
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She sees nothing but the forest, she just returns home.
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She´s off the trail this time, she´s had "quite a fall", as the younger hiker states.
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Ali knocked him unconscious early in the third round.
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"Within you without you" is a terrible song, George shouldn´t have been allowed to include it on the album.
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All of us will be recognized as big mouths as soon as we start talking.
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My girlfriend gave me a fright with her new looks yesterday, she´s my exgirfriend since.
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So you believe the earth is flat. It´s ok, turn left at the end of the corridor and knock on the therapist´s door
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Sorry I couldn´t help you yesterday, my car was involved in an accident.
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To me the strangest part was Sophie´s presence at Emma´s house.
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Nothing is known about Sophie´s background. We don´t know if Emma´s been dreaming all along.
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Because he´s got a cold and Sophie has been kind to him.
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She´d be very confused and maybe frightened, either she´d run away or be brave (or crazy) enough to ask the other Emma what´s happening there.
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Doctor Strange´s got a cold, isn´t it strange?
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Somebody said "I´ve heard Trump is running again for presidency", and everyone in the room got startled to death.
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We were so relaxed that almost everybody fall asleep immediately.
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I had too much to dream last night.
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A bit of rhythm´n´blues will cure all your pains.
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It´s a mystery show, and it´s turning more and more intriguing.
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The only similarity is that Emma is the star, but the second one is way weirder than the other one.
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There´s noting wrong with your T.V., Emma´s just taking a walk through the Twilight Zone.
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That bloody negacionist has run off with all the vaccines!!!
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"Where are you?", asked Mando, "right here, daddy, inside your pack", answered Grogu.
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Even though he was generally lucky, in terms of familly Luke had no luck, his father was Darth.
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So you say The Beatles are overrated?, seriously?, are you kidding me?
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Blondie said that accidents never happen, but Costello nailed it when he stated that accidents will happen.
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I actually haven´t got a clue about what happened to Sophie.
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She´s been abducted by a flying saucer and now is wild swimming in Alpha Centauri.
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I think I´d be worried and a little scared.
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Yes, I have, and I enjoyed it very much.
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Your attitude is perfect for your goals.
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This is nearly it
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Do you believe that using medication will solve all your problems?
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I used to hike along the Hoth Peninsula, but not anymore.
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I don´t want any more of your excuses, I think I´ve had enough of them for now
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I am José, from Madrid (Spain), I expect a great improvement in my English language skills with this course.
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José Lanot replied to Lucia Claudia Zigliani
Hi Lucía, Thank you very much for your review of my reading. Sorry I forgot to include my first audio, it would have been even more useful to me.
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One of the things I´ve learned is not about English but about Spanish, my own language. In the commentaries, a Spanish speaker said that in her country /b/ and /v/ are pronounced differently, which has surprised me a lot, because in Spain both are pronounced exactly the same way.
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@KellyD, just like that, the rules of pronunciation in Spanish say that there´s no difference between "v" and "b" when it comes to pronounciation. I didn´t know about the difference some Spanish speakers do between them, that´s really interesting. There´s no "real" Spanish, anyway, the same way we are learning that theres no "real" English. Rules are rules and...
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We Spanish use to pronounce "th" as /d/ when it´s voiced and as /z/ when it´s voiceless. I think we are pretty understandable on this, aren´t we?
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As far as I know, Spanish language only has "clear L", so we Spanish people need to make an effort to pronounce "dark L". I don´t remember being told about this before.
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José Lanot replied to Rosa Sanz
I couldn´t either, but if you insist you may finally be successful.
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The main thing that I´ve learnt is that I´ve been wrong for the last thirty years trying to get the "right" accent, tryng to be "right" when recording the songs I write in English. Since there are so many "rights", I´ll still put my best efforts in my English pronounciation, but I´m gonna be much more relaxed and I´ll express myself much better in the process.
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This is one of the features we Spanish have to deal with when learning English, long and short vowels. Since our vowels have all the same length, we need to work hard on this.
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It takes a lifetime to get the right schwa or the right strut vowel sound for a Spanish, so here I am, still trying.
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Very interesting, useful and nice course. Thank you!
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The most important thing I´ve learnt is that there are not "rights" and "wrongs" with English, as long as you can communicate with other people. Since there are so different accents among native speakers of English (rhotic and non-rothic, for instance), we non native speakers are just creating new accents within the language, which is the same thing that...
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Hi Elizabeth, sorry for writing here but I don´t know how else I can contact you. Thank you for your kind (and useful) review of my reading. Cheers.
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I want to improve my articulation, sometimes I speak too fast. I also want to improve the way I pronounce vowels, there are much more in English than in Spanish, and even when I´ve been using English to write songs (and to talk to the bands I work with as a sound engineer) for the last 35 years or so, I´m still too far from being where I´d like to be in this...
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@DaveHolloway, thanks!!!
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@AdamWhite Hi Adam, I´ve tried to contact Dave through this chat, I´ve tried to contact Future Learn via facebook and via mail and still no answer. I´ve recorded "My Town" for my new record and I want to do everything right about the permissions and legal issues, but I don´t know who to talk to, can you help me with this? Thank you very much!!!
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José Lanot replied to José Lanot
@DaveHolloway , Hi again, Dave! It´s taken me more than I expected but I´m finally finishing the mixes of the record I told you about, which includes my version of "My Town". Would you be so kind as to inform me about the necessary legal steps you mentioned? Thank you very much!
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I´ve been playing in rock and roll bands and writing songs for the last 35 years. I became a sound engineer 15 years ago and since then my views about performing and about music itself have radically changed, in a good way. I´ve just started my third year at the Creative Music School in Madrid and I feel like a child who´s starting to understand what this is...
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1) As a sound engineer at a Venue, working with different bands every day, I think I have two faces, the first one corresponding to my role as a part of the crew inside the company, and the second one being the face I have for the customers (band members, managers, external engineers, promoters). Both faces interact all the time and complement each other day...
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It doesn´t help that the violist doesn´t play her part alone in the video for us to see, but I´m with you, I think the viola isn´t playing according to the score. Anyway, I´m so happy I´ve finally been able to (more or less) follow each instrument´s part in the score that I don´t care much about this detail, though it´s a little bit confusing indeed.
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Thanks for your explanation, Danilo. I´ve just reviewed the first and the third calls and I don´t think that´s the point, in the first one we clearly see how she takes the phone from her bag and the ringing ends when she "answers" it, so yes, it could be a fake call she´s previously programmed, but that doesn´t make any sense, think of the explanations Lewis...
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I wish Lewis reads the comments, because there´s one thing I can´t understand and I´d like him to explain. The thing is, why do we hear a real phone ringing at the beginning of the film, what´s the need of deceiving the audience with that sound? Caroline could had just taken the phone from her bag and we would have thought there was a real phone call; the...
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In the end it´s a big joke, the winners judge the losers. President Johnson was one of the second world war top criminals, what else can you say about the man who gave the order of nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Gestapo and SS officers helped the United States to create their secret services, all kinds of mad scientists and evil German doctors were recruited...
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Of Course, Dave, I will contact you to get everything in order before I release anything. Thanks!
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I´ve finally come to realize that this is it, it´s over. I started writing songs when I was fifteen, in 1976, the year The Ramones published their first record (two years earlier I´d watched "A hard day´s night" on television and my life had changed for good). I started my first band in 1980, we played The Undertones and The Rezillos and wrote some songs on...
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It´s like the thing with the budget, if you can´t get the person you want for the role you are forced to manage with the one you can get and make the most out of it. That´s what Spielberg did when Tom Shelleck couldn´t play Indiana Jones. I like Shelleck, but can´t imagine other Indi than Harrison Ford. Coppola had to recast "Apocalypse Now" leading role,...
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A cosy kitchen with classic furniture and very simple decoration (both in white and light wood colours) is the perfect place for me to imagine a cuckoo chiming...and for this slightly odd family scene to happen http://www.amsterdamcentralbedandbreakfast.nl/images/breakfast-kitchen2.jpg
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José Lanot replied to Carly Davies
I love the lightning in your second kitchen and its atmosphere, they are very close to the ones in mine, even though both kitchens are completely different. http://www.amsterdamcentralbedandbreakfast.nl/images/breakfast-kitchen2.jpg
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Thank you, Pete, it´s my first attempt of any kind, I´m a compulsive filmgoer and thought it would be fun taking this course. I´m learning a lot and starting to understand how things work, what is behind the images on the screen. Fascinating.
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A square room, the camera is placed in a corner (any corner) near the ceiling and doesn´t move during the scene.
George is in his band´s rehearsal room, sitting on a chair, changing the strings of a Gibson SG Custom. The air conditioner´s out of order, it´s hot and he´s sweating.
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Beautiful harmony vocals, John!
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I´m with Barry about your rhythmic pattern, it gives the song a lovely hollywoodesque feel.
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I believe the courses remain opened indefinitely for us to revise anything we want.
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It has a Burt Bacharach touch in it, and in some moments it makes me think of the songs Jimmy Webb wrote for Glenn Campbell.
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Great achievement! As Adam said somewhere during the course, there´s no such thing as "I can´t sing"
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It sort of shares the essence of some post-punk American bands around 1978, it´s like poetry semi-recited using a piano, I like it!
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It makes me think of the first three records of King Crimson, very intense.
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The semi-recited tone of the song absolutely suits the poem.
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Beautiful voice! I like the last twist of the melody.
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Beautiful chorus!
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Really your first attempt? Nicely done!
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I like the structure and, specialy, the part "where we fell in love..." I´ve used my headphones :-)
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Wow, it seems a five piece band is playing along with you, great work, man!
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I love the walking bass in the chorus! You´ve chosen to make a difference with the part "Seven valleys", so have I. Nice work, Paul.
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Thank you, JP!
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This is my version, I´ve still got a lot of work to do matching the different speeds I´ve used in the different parts. I think it´s the most complex song I´ve ever written and, at the same time, it´s not so difficult to follow, as the chorus gives it unity...or at least I hope it does, it´s too soon to know, anyway, time will tell. It asks for hard work with a...
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If we listen to "My Town" as recorded by Adam we can easily appreciate that the beautiful arrangements and the overall result are enhanced by the excellent job the engineer has done. My point is that the sound matters, the song wouldn´t be the same with a careless recording session, we wouldn´t be able to get all the details, all the little (and not so little)...
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Even though in the credits we read "John Sephton (producer)", John, as far as I can see in the video, is the engineer (great work, good microphones, fantastic studio), the real producer is Adam, he´s the one who has the song in his head, he´s telling everyone what to do, where and how to do it, that´s the producer´s work (or at least part of it). Nicely done,...
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That´s a good point, Daena. Other times the people who make the film just choose not to be accurate, for whatever reason. In the end, I really don´t care about that if I enjoy the movie.
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Everytime I come home from the cinema after having seen a film based on true events or an historical one, I look in the internet for the source of the story. I´ve come to realize that no filmmaker respects the facts, and I think the main reason for that is the naked facts are not always good in terms of turning them into a film. "Enemy at the gates", "Captain...
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José Lanot replied to Elsi Kervinen
I´m spanish and I live in Madrid. I have some friends from California and from London that have been living here for the last thirty years. They speak good and fluent Spanish, but they have strong American and British accents. I´ve always wondered why they´ve never tried to correct their accents, and I´m beginning to understand that there´s nothing wrong with...
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The theme is: do you really need to be ashamed of where your parents came from and hide it as much as you can in order to fit in the place where you live?
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Absolutely, the ABC of finishing songs, I´m going to make a poster with this page.
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José Lanot replied to José Lanot
Hi Iliya! I wrote that song at least three times (with different names), I was using the same chord progression in different keys, so I didn´t realize what I had done until years later. Creep is amazing, with its brutal changes in terms of dynamics. My favourite example of a song repeating a four chord progression with no harmonic changes but having verse and...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViKkjSzdwL4 Looking for the Beatles original "When I´m sixty four" in youtube I´ve found this. They recorded the song at this speed and in this key at first, and finally cut the one we all know, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCss0kZXeyE Even though the two versions sound completely different, they are just one semitone away....
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José Lanot replied to José Lanot
Thank you, Prue!
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José Lanot replied to Derek Rose
Madrid is great, but we have 40 degrees now, must be the global warming is all here!
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There´s a joke about sound engineers (I´m one), it says that we used to go deaf but now ge go blind. If you spend several hours looking at the monitor while listening to the song you are recording or mixing, you end up seeing the song, not listening to it, and that´s sad. In the old days (not so old, but it seems like a thousand years) you had to keep your...
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José Lanot replied to Derek Rose
You´re right, Terry, sometimes is not easy to tell which part is this and which one is that or where the beginning or the end of a part is, but it works in general terms. "Some songs don´t know their ABC´s, they just burst out and flower", that´s a very good one..
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José Lanot replied to Derek Rose
Yes Ken, that´s what I´ve understood from the videos and articles, it´s called bridge for being a bridge between the verse and the chorus and it´s called pre.chorus because it goes just before the chorus and prepares for it.
But (I´ve just realized that, an hour later, reading an article here) a bridge can be placed between two verses too, and then it´s not...
