Shadowing Practice: ACCEPT - Andy Sneap on the making of Blind Rage, part 1 (OFFICIAL INTERVIEW) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Music We
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spent about a week just going over riffs and arranging them
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and getting some sort of songs in a semblance of order just so Mark had something to write lyrics to.
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They usually, it's kind of funny when the way they assemble things, they work in a very old fashioned way of, and a good way actually,
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of writing things around the vocal ideas and if they've got strong vocal melody or guitar melody they'll base it around, you know, the song around that
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and it's not just riffs crammed together kind of like what
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a lot of thrash acts do it's an older way of writing
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so they'll have a basic song in you know we're end
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up with a you know a pretty standard structure a lot of the time
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and then they'll go away
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and Peter tends to work on the vocal patterns we call it Peter easy mate he's got this language
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that he random words that he sings sort of syllables and you know vowels that sound good
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It's a way they really used to write in the olden days when their English wasn't that good they'd write certain phrases,
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hence, you know, was it icicle brains, bicycle chains, you know, they just thought it sounded good and because they were German they got away with it.
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Erm...
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So yeah, they've got this way of sort of assembling ideas
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and it slowly all comes together and then once you've got this idea with Peter doing a vocal pass on it
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with certain timing and you know where he's starting pitch wise, then Mark will listen to it and get an idea for lyrics
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and come in and you know they'll sort of you know bash these ideas out.
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And we got quite good sort of head start on it this time.
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With the Stalingrad album it was all a bit pushed
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because they'd just come off the blood the nation's tour
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and we've got to get another album out quick to make it work with schedules
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and with this one we gave ourselves plenty of time um for the band to go away
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and assess things and we had we probably had about 18 18
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or 19 songs in in a really good shape for for this record um
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which meant we could really cherry pick and you know pick the songs that we felt made a very complete album.
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There's a few sort of, not disagreements, but few different ideas of where certain songs should go.
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But there's always going to be that with a lot of creative forces there.
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And at the end of the day it's down to what Wolf and Peter want on these things really.
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They're the reason that XCEP's got a certain character.
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You've got to let a band go with their ideas at the end of the day, even if I've got a certain idea or other members have got certain ideas.

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You're practicing English with "ACCEPT - Andy Sneap on the making of Blind Rage, part 1 (OFFICIAL INTERVIEW)" using the Shadowing technique — a method originally developed for professional interpreter training.

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What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.