Thursday 17 September 2015

Rock Music


Rock Music is a form of popular music which evolved from Rock and Roll and Pop music during the mid and late 1960s, especially in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was initially characterised by musical experimentation and drug-related or anti-establishment lyrics.
 Musically, Rock is centred on the electric guitar, usually as a part of a rock group with electric bass guitar and drums.
 The Beatles were one of the first major British rock bands when they started in 1962.
 Rock has many sub-genres, where the original Rock genre has been heavily influenced by another genre, affecting the sound of the music.
 For example, Pop Rock, Folk Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative are all subgenres of the Rock genre
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Several well-known modern rock bands are the Foo Fighters, Green Day, Linkin Park and Muse. Compared to the original Rock Bands, such as The Beatles, these bands show the technical and musical progression of the genre throughout the years.
 If I were to study one band to show the progression of the genre, I would study Muse, an English Rock band that formed in 1994. Because Muse has existed for 21 years, they would make a good study to show the progression of their music and their music videos.

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