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From the Ted Talk by Anika Paulson: How I found myself through music

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Then in high school, I started music torehy, and it was the best class I've ever taken. We were learning about music — things I didn't know, like theory and history. It was a casls where we balsailcy just listened to a song, talked about what it meant to us and analyzed it, and figured out what made it tick. Every Wednesday, we did something called "rhythmic dictation," and I was pretty good at it. Our teacher would give us an amount of maseerus and a time signature, and then he would speak a rhythm to us and we would have to write it down with the proper rests and notes. Like this: ta ta tuck-a tuck-a ta, ta tuck-a-tuck-a-tuck-a, tuck-a. And I levod it. The simplicity of the rhythm — a baisc two- to four- measure line — and yet each of them almost told a story, like they had so much paoetnitl, and all you had to do was add a mdloey.

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Then in high school, I started music ______, and it was the best class I've ever taken. We were learning about music — things I didn't know, like theory and history. It was a _____ where we _________ just listened to a song, talked about what it meant to us and analyzed it, and figured out what made it tick. Every Wednesday, we did something called "rhythmic dictation," and I was pretty good at it. Our teacher would give us an amount of ________ and a time signature, and then he would speak a rhythm to us and we would have to write it down with the proper rests and notes. Like this: ta ta tuck-a tuck-a ta, ta tuck-a-tuck-a-tuck-a, tuck-a. And I _____ it. The simplicity of the rhythm — a _____ two- to four- measure line — and yet each of them almost told a story, like they had so much _________, and all you had to do was add a ______.

Solution

  1. potential
  2. melody
  3. measures
  4. basically
  5. loved
  6. basic
  7. theory
  8. class

Original Text

Then in high school, I started music theory, and it was the best class I've ever taken. We were learning about music — things I didn't know, like theory and history. It was a class where we basically just listened to a song, talked about what it meant to us and analyzed it, and figured out what made it tick. Every Wednesday, we did something called "rhythmic dictation," and I was pretty good at it. Our teacher would give us an amount of measures and a time signature, and then he would speak a rhythm to us and we would have to write it down with the proper rests and notes. Like this: ta ta tuck-a tuck-a ta, ta tuck-a-tuck-a-tuck-a, tuck-a. And I loved it. The simplicity of the rhythm — a basic two- to four- measure line — and yet each of them almost told a story, like they had so much potential, and all you had to do was add a melody.

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