rock music
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- Created on: 03-05-19 18:07
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- ROCK MUSIC
- Soft Rock
- This often features acoustic guitars and piano
- often songs of a mid to slow tempo
- artists such as Elton John, Billy Joel, Bread, Chicago, and Fleetwood Mac
- Psychedelic Rock
- The rise of this genre is attributed to the rise of the drug culture in the late 60's and early 70's
- Often used extra-ordinary sounds
- Sometimes non-western instruments, such as instruments originating from Indian.
- This can often be seen in the Beatles music, in particular the album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club and the Revolver album
- In addition, this genre often included long improvised solos.
- Artists include the likes of The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd and The Beatles
- Progressive Rock
- This genre often included longs songs lasting up to 25mins long, with complex structures, involving changes of metre and a focus on musicianship and virtuosity.
- there was often use of orchestral instruments involved.
- Artists include Pink Floyd, Genesis, ELO and Jethro Tull
- Heavy Rock
- This style of Rock music emerged from a riff-based guitar pattern
- pentatonic scales and blues notes were often used along with aggressive and growling vocals
- also use of distortion on electric guitar and driving rhythms on the drum kit, combined with power chords using the first and fifth of a chord
- artists such as Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Deep Purple
- Glam Rock
- almost as much of a fashion statement as a subgenre of Rock
- Performers wore flamboyant costumes and experimented with gender identity
- Largely popular in the first half of the seventies
- artists included, David Bowie, T-rex and Roxy music
- Punk Rock
- in the mid to late 70's, punk gained its popularity from it's short, fast and aggressive songs, which were often about anti-establishment
- often use of limited vocal ranges that were sung a spoken style
- usually guitar, bass and drum combos
- Artists include, the Sex Pistols, The Damned and the Clash
- Soft Rock
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