Rock Music Has Many Genres

Rock Music Has Many Genres
By Kati Makat

Rock music is a popular from of music that is accompanied by
instruments like drums, guitar and bass. Rock music in itself
has many styles that were incorporated by musicians who loved
this music. One can come across rock music where instruments
like synthesizers, piano and organ is also used. Rock music
began in the early fifties in United States and the United
Kingdom and like all popular music has it own loyal fan
following. Rock music was subsequently mixed with many other
elements of music to give their own touch to rock music. Rock
song subsequently over the years had many new genres added in
its fold.

So in 1970s jazz was blended with rock to create jazz rock
music, and then it was blended with folk music resulting in folk
rock and later Latin, soul and funk music also had its
influences on rock music at times. Today we have different
categories under rock music and some of the popular ones are
heavy metal rock, progressive rock, blues rock, soft rock, punk
rock and techno rock among others. In the 1980’s and 1990’s many
new additional genres of rock music such as Brit pop rock, Indie
rock, alternative rock, hard rock and grunge style rock were
introduced. The United Kingdom is another country where rock
country flourished and British rock is also as famous as
American rock music all over the world.

One of the greatest rock music band The Beatles is from Britain
and they are famous worldwide for their songs and rock music.
Through 1970 Pink Floyd was the most influential band in the
rock music scene. This group had four artists and all of them
were from Britain. The kind of rock music that Pink Floyd was
sang was known as psychedelic rock. The folk scene combined with
rock gave the new term folk rock. Here all the traditional songs
were combined with the instruments that were traditionally
associated with rock music. This genre of music was pioneered by
Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie. Some of the other popular rock folk
rock music artists include Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and The
Band.

Progressive rock is one genre of rock music which went beyond
the established musical norms and was more experimental in
nature. Singers and musicians that were associated with this
genre loved to experiment with different types of instruments,
beats, musical forms of type of songs. Bands that played
progressive rock music borrowed elements from jazz, folk,
electronic and classical music to experiment with rock that
turned out to be very successful. Some of the bands that were
into singing progressive rock included Camel, Can, Barclay James
Harvest, King Crimson, Magma and Yes among many others. Music
be it of any kind rock music, house music, gospel music, folk
music or country music each has its own touch and of course its
own group of loyal followers.

About the Author: Kati Makat loves all kinds of music like
rock, hip hop, country, pop, rap and reggae. She refers
http://www.ez-tracks.com as one of her favorite sites for
downloading music,free MP3 downloads,online music,Rock Music.

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