Musical Instrument Related Spanish Phrases


The list of Spanish sentences and phrases on this page deals with musical instruments and learning to play a musical instrument. Do you play a musical instrument? Do you take lessons on a musical instrument? If you do play a musical instrument wouldn't you like to be able to tell you Spanish speaking friends about it?
If you'd like to be able to talk about playing musical instrument in Spanish look at and listen to the phrases on this page. You'll find out how to say things like talk about scales, music lessons, new songs, and playing in a concert.
- Me gustaria aprender a leer musica.
- I would like to learn to read music.
- Es muy importante practicar las escalas.
- It's very important to practice scales.
- Empieza con lección numero cinco.
- Begin with lesson number five.
- Antes de seguir aprendiendo...
- Before you continue with learning...
- This phrase comes without an ending so you can add the custom ending for any situation.
- Debes saber las siguientes reglas...
- You need to know the following rules...
- Empieza con aprender un escala natural.
- Begin by learning a natural scale.
- Despues de escuela voy a mi lección de piano.
- After school I go to my piano lesson.
- Notice the reversed word order that has to be used in the Spanish way to say piano lesson. It has to be lesson of piano or it won't sound correct to the listener.
- La maestra me enceña la musica.
- The teacher teaches me the music.
- Lo haces bien -- ahora toca la canción un poco mas rapido.
- You're doing good -- now play the song a little faster.
- Si practicas diario, vas a poder tocar mejor.
- If you practice every day, you're going to be able to play better.
- Most of the phrases on this page are using the informal address in Spanish, and you'll want to be able to quickly convert it to the formal address is the situation requires it.
- Con una canción nueva, empieza tocando despacio, y luego mas rapido.
- With a new song, begin playing slowly, and later play it faster.
- Tambien usa la escala cromatica.
- Also use the chromatic scale.
- En vez de tocar un instrumento, me gusta cantar en el coro.
- Instead of playing an instrument, I like to sing in the chior.
- En vez de is a popular Spanish phrase to say instead of. You will also hear the phrase en lugar de to express in place of or instead of.
- Mañana estoy tocando guitarra en un concierto.
- Tomorrow I'm playing guitar in a concert.
- In the sentence above you can also use the wording "tomorrow I'm going to play" -- "mañana voy a tocar..."