Shadowing Practice: Headbangers Ball Dope (10.26.05) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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This is Headbangers Ball.
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Edsel and Virus from Dope are here tonight.
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Welcome, guys.
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What's up, brother?
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Good to see you again.
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Good to see you, man.
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American Apathy is the name of their latest CDs, which is in store now on Artemis Records.
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So tell us, you know, how it was different recording it from the last three.
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You had, you know, you got the new label.
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Well, Artemis Proper is now promoting it.
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You just finished a Mushroom Red tour
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or it's kind of been the same old do -it -yourself
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uh bust your ass mentality i can say ass right yes yes you can good sorry about
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that um you know just doing our thing man we recorded
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a lot of this record on tour just like recorded a
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lot of the last record on tour you guys have like a mobile rig with you
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or i got an hd pro tools rig i just have
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it on i had a nice case built for it rolls right back in the back of the bus
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and like that way cool it's the same studio at home
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and it is on tour you know a couple good mic pre's all you need you know the story
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but um just been been doing that
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and touring non -stop like always we're actually all kind of
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i think just really getting to the point where we're uh focusing on our lives a little bit
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because we've been so nuts touring so much
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and we got to go back to japan here next week for halloween
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and okay just doing what we do man cool crazy well we got more to talk about
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but right now we're going to see a headbangers ball premiere
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from mud vein here they are with forget to remember i forgot that
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dope is hanging out with me here tonight we're talking about their new album american apathy
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and uh let's talk about the videos because the new one survived
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which we've been playing for a while now you got a cool story behind
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that which you should tell all the uh people at home yeah it was fun man
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because the song is sort of a testament to the band
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being around as long as we have it's our fourth record now
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and um we shot all the live footage in japan the last time that We were there, and we just got this idea of,
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since the sentiment of the song was about the band and how the band has grown and progressed through the years, we went back to all the video footage of every video the band's ever shot
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and cut in clips of it to sort of walk the timeline of Dope through the years.
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So anybody that's familiar with our older stuff can see little clips of it throughout the video
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and just see where the band started and where we're at now.
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And didn't you do a video for every song in the last album?
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Yes.
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So is there footage from every...
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Not every single one, but at least a couple to show you that time frame.
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Okay.
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From that record.
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Yeah, from that record.
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But yeah, there was no way, because if we were in like 20 -something videos now, it would have been ridiculous.
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We made sure to show lots of the silver chicks, though, because it's very important.
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Can't get enough of that.
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Indeed.
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Although they did make us take lots of shots of them.
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We could not show any of the body parts.
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Okay.
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We had to make sure the head was in the shot.
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I was bummed out.
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Yeah, you know.
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There's the standards of practice.
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I understand.
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Young kids are watching at home.
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But anyways, let's see it right now.
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Now here's Dope with Survive.
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Check it out.
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This is Headbangers Ball.
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Dope has been hanging out with me.
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So Virus, tell us about, there was a website where fans actually got to, you know, communicate with you directly and ask you a bunch of questions.
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Yeah, the first thing I want to say, that really was me.
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Like people were like, is that you?
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And it really was, that was a lot of fun.
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It's all a scam.
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It was really, I liked it.
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Did people ruin it all?
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Well, you know what, the funny thing is they ask these really personal strange questions about like your underwear or something ridiculous, but we did that for a little while,
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and then at the same time, Edsel was starting his Metal Edge column, straight dope, so then we just figured, you know, that's kind of more important than that.
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And that's on the web too, or is it in the web?
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No, it's in a magazine every month, thanks for reading, appreciate it, way to go, bro.
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This guy's not in a loop.
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Hey, I get Metal Edge, I do read it. but uh but yeah
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so we were we kind of had been talking about doing this thing the whole time
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and then a fan site i think reached out to him unbeknownst to our publicist
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or anybody's knowledge and we thought it was a little conflict of interest for the time being
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but you could probably start it up now
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that my column's sailing along i don't want to take me i mean it's
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so good that he you know he knows all about it
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but uh you can write me sometime
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if you have any problem with your social life you just
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let me know that's true i mean fans can probably just go to the dope website
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and contact you guys directly yes dope army dot com I'm going for the plug right now all right that's
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so thanks for stopping by it's good to see you good luck in Japan
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and go out and check out dope's new CD American apathy it's in stores right now
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and right now got a video it was a special request
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from me here's cannibal corpse this is staring through the eyes of the dead
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tonight on headbangers ball we're remembering Dimebag Daryl his music
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and his legacy our favorite dime bag memory dude i think
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it's got to be uh wjjo's band camp madison wisconsin two years back
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and this uh actually was like it was 2004
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and it was a damaged plan drowning pool us saliva saliva was there
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and uh dime went up on stage and they're of course doing in the last song of the night, which was Walk, and it just,
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the stage has turned into 50 musicians just running around like lunatics
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and beer and go out there and sing with them
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and uh it was like something you don't ever forget it was just
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so inviting you know anybody
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that was standing side stage didn't matter who you were he's
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looking at you going come on man get some beer
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and come up here
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and sing for us come on this is the nicest most
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wonderful dude you'll ever meet doesn't have to know you just it's hard that's all told him
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that uh he should practice more yeah he's like hey i'm
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dying he's like i'm as i was like you You really got to practice more.
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And he goes, you're damn right about that, buddy.
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He's amazing.
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Yeah, awesome day.
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We'll be missed.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Headbangers Ball Dope”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: dope, record, band. This video has 112 sentences and 1237 words to shadow. The speech runs for 5:30. The speaker talks fast, about 225 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| dope noun | [doʊp] | Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface. |
| bind verb | /ˈbaɪ̯nd/ | To tie; to confine by any ligature. |
| headbanger noun | One who dances by violently shaking the head in time to the music. | |
| apathy noun | /ˈæ.pə.θi/ | Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something). |
| footage noun | /ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/ | An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording. |
| saliva noun | /səˈlaɪvə/ | A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands, consisting of water, mucin, protein, and enzymes. It… |
| dime noun | /daɪm/ | A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents. |
| clip noun | /klɪp/ | Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another. |
| cannibal noun | /ˈkænɪbəl/ | An organism which eats others of its own species or kind, especially a human who consumes human flesh. |
| lunatic noun | /ˈluːnətɪk/ | An insane person. |
| publicist noun | A person whose job is to publicize information or events; a publicity agent; a public relations agent or worker. | |
| unbeknownst adjective | /ˌʌnbɪˈnoʊnst/ | Without the knowledge of. |
| drown verb | /dɹaʊn/ | To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. |
| mentality noun | /mɛnˈtæləti/ | A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs. |
| vein noun | /veɪn/ | A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. |
| run around verb | To be very busy doing many different things. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | we've been playing · has been hanging |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | we've been · has grown · has turned |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was bummed · be missed |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | CDs, which is · night, which was |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 21 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, I'm, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like dope, bind, headbanger.
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.