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1. There are many ways to access and enjoy listening to music; CD, radio, streaming (e.g. Spotify) to phone or tablet, YouTube, mp3, vinyl etc. What is your preferred way to listen to music? Why?
2. There are many places to enjoy our favorite music; driving/in the car, walking/cycling to work, in bed, at work, around the house. Where do you listen to music the most? How does it change your mood?
3. Can you play an instrument? If yes, tell us about how and when you learned and how often you play now. If no, do you regret never picking it up? If you could learn from today, which instrument would you choose and why?
4. What genre of music do you listen to the most (for example, JPop, JRock, JRap, 60s Classic Rock, Trad Jazz, German 90s House etc. etc.)? How old were you when you started to become interested in that genre? What got you into that genre?
5. What is your favorite album, single or recording from that genre? Tell us a bit about how you first heard it, how often you listen to it now and why it means so much to you?
6. What genre, artist or song do you consider annoying, impenetrable, undeserving of artistic merit or unlistenable?

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Question 1

I used to prefer CD but nowadays I use Youtube and streaming. There is so much music out there so it is impossible to listen to it all, but I switched because CD is limited (although I like listening to an album's flow) while streaming and using Youtube is mostly free with unlimited choice.

Question 2

I usually listen to it on the couch to release stress. Sometimes I even play air guitar in the living room.

Question 3

No, I can't play an instrument. I tried to play the bass guitar when I was a teenager, but I lost interest quickly.

Question 4

I listen to heavy metal the most. I started to love it when I was around 9 years old. The story goes that I got a radio for my nineth birthday. I asked my dad to dial in the channel that we listened to in the car. He likes classic rock from the 60s and 70s (I do too). I listened to that station for a while and then I got adventurous and randomly tried new stations. I found a heavy metal channel playing Black Sabbath and I absolutely loved it.

Question 5

My favorite albums is Nirvana's "Nevermind" which is a grunge album. If you ask me this question next week, I imagine that I will have a different choice. I like lots of different songs by many different bands. I usually like older music because music nowadays seems to be very auto-tuned.

Question 6

I have never enjoyed love songs. I get bored with slow melodies, although this is not completely true every single time. There are some slow songs which I like, but they are few and far between.

Tough Vocabulary

- English -	- Japanese -
adventurous	冒険的な
randomly	無作為に
absolutely	絶対に
few and far between	はるかに少ない