Playing Music Vocabulary Puzzle

Julian: Adriana, did you — choose —evenever play an — choose —instrumentinstruction?

Adriana: Yeah, I — choose —activelyactually play the saxophone.

Julian: Wow. The saxophone. That's really, really — choose —coolcold. Can you — choose —selltell me more about it?

Adriana: Yeah, it's a cool instrument. Well, I actually took lessons. I started just playing by — choose —myselfyourself and I was just looking at some YouTube videos and — choose —fundingfinding songs that I like. But then I realized I — choose —neededkneaded a teacher. So I went to school for a music — choose —carriercareer and I studied saxophone.

Julian: Wow. A — choose —wholehole music career. I never — choose —herdheard of that.

Adriana: Yeah. It's — choose —prettyparty cool. Not all universities have them, but I was lucky that where I — choose —lovedlived, the university had a music career and the saxophone teacher was really good, so I got to study there for — choose —fourfor years. Tell me, Julian, do you play any music instruments?

Julian: Well, yeah, in — choose —fastfact, I play guitar. I — choose —learnedleaned as a kid in my school. We had this guitar ensemble. It was classical guitar, but it was really cool, too.

Adriana: Well, that — choose —sendssounds awesome. And besides that, did you ever play in a band or with your friends as something different than classical music?

Julian: Well, yeah, we had a rock band, but we didn't really — choose —maketake it. So we never go out to — choose —conceptsconcerts or festival or something like that. But you studied a whole career about that. Did you do any of that?

Adriana: Yeah, when I was in school, I had a friend that — choose —alreadyalways had a band and they were kind of — choose —favoritefamous. So, I went to play with them and it was really fun because they actually did travel to different music festivals around the country. And it was a really fun time. But music festivals can be fun, but it's also a little bit — choose —crowdedcrowned and there's so many people that go to that type of event. Do you like going to music festivals?

Julian: Well, no, I don't really go to festivals. I think they're really crowded, but I do go to concerts, — choose —throughthough.

Adriana: Oh, okay. So tell me, what's the difference between a festival and a concert?

Julian: Well, a concert is when just one band goes to a closed — choose —venuemenu or a — choose —studiostadium. Sometimes they have opening bands, but you get to hear the — choose —samesafe band for one hour and a half or two hours. And in the festivals, well, it takes place in a big, big — choose —partpark or something like that. And it's a lot of bands, different kind of genres, and you only get to hear the band you like for 20 — choose —minutesminus.

Adriana: Yeah. Well, I don't know what I would like better. I think it'll — choose —defenddepend. Because in a festival, maybe you only get 20 minutes, but it's the best songs that they have, right?

Julian: Yeah. You're — choose —rightwrite. I think that's the best, because if there's going to be different bands that you really like, it's only 20 minutes per band, but they're going to play the best.

Adriana: Yeah. Because then in a concert, maybe you get to see them for an hour, or an hour and a half or even two hours, but sometimes they play songs you don't even know. Because not everybody listens to their — choose —alarmsalbums. Maybe you just like some songs you heard on the — choose —radioratio and well, they're probably the most popular ones. So there's maybe five or 10 more songs that you don't even know about.

Julian: Yes. There's this thing where they put a lot of — choose —stampsstages. So they're playing at the same time. It depends, I guess, how big is the venue or the park where they are doing it. But I don't know. I think that sometimes you're listening to your rock band, your favorite band, and then over there is like a electronic music going on and well, they — choose —mixmiss the audio.

Adriana: Yeah. That's — choose —cozycrazy. It's like multitasking at a concert, right?

Julian: Yeah. That's right. But well, I guess it will depend on the people.