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Should we spend two minutes eyes closed meditating before we start just to like really get here?
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Sure, okay.
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Let's do that.
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That's a first.
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Nice.
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Does meditation help you creatively?
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It clears the distractions.
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So the distractions can get in the way with a direct connection to the creative force. Do you play instruments?
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Barely.
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Do you know how to work a soundboard?
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No. I have no technical ability.
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And I know nothing about music.
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You must know something.
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Well, I know what I like and what I don't like.
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And I'm decisive about what I like and what I don't like.
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So what are you being paid for?
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The confidence that I have in my taste and my ability to express what I feel has proven helpful for artists.
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Artists are eager to make the pilgrimage to Shangri-La Studios in Malibu to work with Rubin.
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How many studios do you have here?
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There's the main control room here with the live room.
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The place is minimalist to say the least.
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There's no mirrors, no TVs, no signs of Rick Rubin's extraordinary success.
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I've never been in a recording studio where there's not gold records and Grammys.
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Do you have like a tiny ego room somewhere?
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I don't.
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I used to send them all to my parents and I don't know where they are now.
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It's a distraction.
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If you start thinking about doing something to achieve that, then you're not focused on making this beautiful thing.
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It undermines the purity of the project.
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I like the idea of getting the point across with the least amount of information possible.
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And that's what you're doing in a recording studio.
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You're listening to music, to sound, and trying to strip it.
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Just to see what is actually necessary.
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Getting it down to that essence to start with is really helpful in understanding what it is.
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On our first day, he brought us in on a jam session with saxophone great Kamasi Washington.
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What are you listening for?
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Like right now, there's chimes, piano.
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Yeah, I'm not listening to any of those things.
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What are you listening to?
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I'm listening to the feeling.
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How do you listen to a feeling?
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Well, my body's moving.
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I feel that melody awaken something in me.
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There's something familiar about it, but I don't think I've heard it before.
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The feeling of familiarity is a good feeling.
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If you haven't noticed by now, Rick Rubin talks a lot about feelings.
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My aim is not to have my presence felt.
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Unless it's necessary, unless it's helpful.
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His presence is laid back, literally.
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He usually listens lying down.
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And barefoot, with his eyes shut.
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You might think he was napping.
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I try to listen as closely as I possibly can.
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And when my eyes are closed, I feel like I'm there with the music.
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It may not seem like work, but Ruben hears things and senses things other producers don't.
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Back in 1993, a few stray guitar chords on a Tom Petty demo tape caught his attention.
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Tom sent me demos of about five new songs, and none of them really struck me, honestly.
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None of them spoke to me, but that guitar riff that opens a song was something that was played between two of the songs, just like a warmup.
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I drove to Tom's house and I played it for him.
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I said, listen to this piece.
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I feel like this is the best thing on the tape.
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Write this one.
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And that turned into Last Dance with Mary Jane.
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Last Dance with Mary Jane, one more time to kill the fame.
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That's going to be hard, though, when you come back saying, I like the thing that happened accidentally in between two of these songs.
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That's a tough sell sometimes, isn't it?
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I'm not trying to sell it.
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I'm just sharing what I'm feeling.
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You know, like if they don't want to do it, it's fine.
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Rubin has shared what he's learned in a book, The Creative Act, A Way of Being.
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It was published in January and is his guide to harnessing creativity, something he figured out how to do his sophomore year at New York University in 1982.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Rick Rubin on the Creative Act — 60 Minutes”. Las palabras que más se repiten: feeling, listening, studio, listen, song. Este vídeo tiene 71 frases y 705 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:38. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 152 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 11 de sus 71 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
distraction sustantivo/dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/distracción
awaken verbo/əˈweɪkən/despertar
barefoot adjetivo/ˈbɛɹfʊt/descalzo, chuña
creatively adverbio/kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/creativamente
familiarity sustantivo/fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/intimidad
meditate verbo/ˈmɛ.dɪˌteɪt/meditar
minimalist adjetivo/ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪst/minimalista
pilgrimage sustantivo/ˈpɪlɡɹɪmɪd͡ʒ/peregrinación, peregrinaje
saxophone sustantivo/ˈsæksəˌfoʊ̯n/saxofón, saxófono
undermine verbo/ˌʌn.dɚˈmaɪn/socavar
chord sustantivo/kɔɹd/acorde
harness verbo/ˈhɑɹ.nəs/arrear, aparejar
purity sustantivo/ˈpjʊɹɪti/pureza, puridad
stray verbo/stɹeɪ/errar, divagar
decisive adjetivo/dɪˈsaɪsɪv/decisivo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
figure out verboaveriguar, captar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • Does meditation help you creatively?
  • Do you know how to work a soundboard?
  • How many studios do you have here?
  • Do you have like a tiny ego room somewhere?
  • What are you listening for?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahas proven · I've never been · I've heard
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacebeing paid · is laid · are closed

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 21 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: creatively /kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/, familiarity /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/, minimalist /ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪst/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: creatively /kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/, decisive /dɪˈsaɪsɪv/, creativity /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como distraction, awaken, barefoot.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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