So,this is kind of a mood album, it's the extreme of moods, you know,Achin,' sad slow, sultry Country ballads and then the Shakin' is all up-tempo, kind of crazy,fast, a little bit throw-back Country, a little bit throw-back old soul or Motown."

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Having said that, let's assume that we do have the slower tempo here, one--Let me play a little bit at the piano.

说完这些,假设我们运用较慢的速度,一,我还是在钢琴上弹一下

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We could be going with a very fast tempo, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, and slow it down.

我们可以读的非常快,一二三,一二三,一二三,也能慢下来

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Here we go. Notice the tempo is slowed down a bit here also.

我们开始吧,注意速度,在这里也放慢了一点

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Some of you are going with a very slow tempo: one-two, one-two.

有些人会觉得是非常慢的速度,一-二,一-二

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It's a unique piece because what he does is take some very basic patterns and simply repeats them over and over and over again for about fourteen and a half minutes depending upon the tempo that the conductor is taking the music.

这是件独特的作品,因为他仅仅只是把一些基本的样式,简单地重复重复再重复,大概十四分半钟,当然这也取决于,演奏者的演奏速度

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