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(50's-70's)

• Rock'n'Roll is one of the development of Country and Blues music. Characteristic of rock and roll is on beats (beat) is usually combined with the lyrics. Rock and roll using one of the beat-based rhythms of the blues music called boogie woogie backbeat plus accent that is almost always filled punch snare drum. Classical versions of rock and roll played with one or two electric guitars, electric bass guitar, and drums set up a modern use synthetizer-sampling and sampling. Development of the first blues lilting be beat up. The 'hero' RnR time was Elvis Presley, Bill Haley (and The Comets), The Beatles, Chuck Bery etc.

• Classic Rock is the development of RocknRoll where commonly used chord has many additional and more varied. The use of distortion also began to dominate, of course, thanks to the Guitar Hero, Jimi Hendrix. Perhaps the time was the era of the triumph of Rock in the real sense. Many emerging supergroup and become a legend until now, call it Cream, The Yardbirds, The Who, The Kinks etc. Part solo in a song composition is favored dialogue between guitar and keyboard (if any). There is also a group that combines rock with folk music kind of Jethro Tull.

• Next is Progressive Rock. Type this genre is the development of rock combined with Jazz, Classic and various other genres. You could say the composition of songs of this genre is very complex and highlight the skills of each personnel. Songs that were created are also usually long duration and the section describing the lyrics as a story or epic. Groups which it is famous dikala Rush, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, ELP etc.

• Voice when it might be kind of Hard Rock. Many supergroup who were born in this genre range of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Blue Oyster. And among the songs that fame always dominated by a long guitar solo and almost all hard rock guitarist into the present like a mecca guitarist Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Richie Blackmore (Deep Purple), etc.

• Psychedelic Rock may be a genre that 'fit' dikala it, because at that era in which man glorifies freedom or so-called hippies. This type of feeling addicted to or forward the moment someone fly through the use of sound that 'float', ambience with lots of use of the delay, the lyrics are absurd. Jim Morrison of The Doors often include the poems in the lyrics as well as Live performnya. This further creates an atmosphere of 'mengawang' in the music of The Doors and suitable as a 'soundtrack' use of LSD., etc. Morphin. Group of fame when it was The Doors, Pink Floyd.

• Name initiated by heavy metal hard rock band Steppenwolf 60'an Year, in their song entitled 'Born To Be Wild "(on the second line of the second stanza):" I like smoke and lightning Heavy metal thunder Racin' with the wind And the feelin 'that I'm under. "But the term was not used properly until in 1970, when Black Sabbath released their debut album entitled 'Black Sabbath'. Rock with a concoction that is more 'ruthless', a thicker and distorted vocals that 'screaming', swearing. Black Sabbath is considered to be the band most responsible for the emergence of genres of Metal. Besides them there are Judas Priest, Rainbow, Manowar etc.

• Punk Rock is the rock music movement that developed around the year 1974-1975 in the United States, Australia and England. Spearheaded by groups like the Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Damned, and The Clash. Punk groups often mimic simple musical structures such as garage rock music from the 1960's. Punk music is the core of resistance against the conservative government and aristrokat. Sex Pistols became controversial when the band create a song 'God Save The Queen', although there is no word that insults the Queen, they criticized the British government at that time. They perform a lot of experience rejection because it is controversial.

• · Glam Rock, this is the era in which the rockers wearing makeup and wearing costumes are striking. The main characteristic of this period is long hair and vocalists who can certainly charming face, call it Axl Rose (Guns n Roses), David Coverdale (Whitesnake), Sebastian Bach (Skid Row). On the composition of song lyrics they put forward many Sex, Drugs & RocknRoll, although most of the hits and singles they are on track to beat slow or commonly known as Slow Rock. So many bands during this makes each band should really have a special cirri and a charismatic frontman.

• · Hardcore Punk (sometimes called Hardcore only) is one of the subgenre of punk rock that originated from North America and the UK at the end of the 1970s. This new sound that is characteristic of his music in general, namely: a thicker guitar sound, heavy and fast from the beginning of punk rock music. A typical song is usually very short, fast and hard, always sang about politics, freedom of speech, violence, exile themselves from the social, straight edge, the war and about the sub-culture of hardcore itself. Straight Edge is a principle in which his followers not to use drugs, alcohol and not smoking. But the spotlight among these is the violence that often do (Chaos / anarchism). The band is well known that time was Biohazard, Rykers, suicidal tendencies, Madball.

(90's)

• · Nirvana was the band responsible for the emergence of the genre Grunge / Grunch. They also considered 'finish off' the era of glam rock. Their music teaches' ​​to play rock music, no need to use the skill that high, the screaming vocals. Check out their hits 'Smell Like Teen Spirit', it only takes 4 chords to create the hits of the legendary and genre Rock. Grunge (sometimes also called the Seattle Sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged in the mid-1980s in the U.S. state of Washington, especially in the Seattle area .. Early grunge movement began to appear at the end of the 1980s around Seattle through the independent label Sub Pop. Grunge became commercially successful in the first half of the 1990s, especially since the release of Nirvana's Nevermind and Ten by Pearl Jam.

• · Alternative Rock is really an alternative to rock music. While the people fed up with rock 'so-so only', they are many other types of music mixing and eventually create music that did not even think or so-called post-rock. Instruments used in increasingly diverse, ranging from turntables to sequencer. Root of this genre gave birth to genres like Brit Rock (Oasis, Kula Shaker, Stone Roses), Hip Metal (Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park), Garage Rock (The Strokes, The Datsuns, 20-22 s) and so forth.

• Extreme Metal may be the root of most hard rock, noisy. Very fast drumming, guitar riffs that rely on speed and technique of grunted and screamed vocals (growl and scream) to create compositions that can be spelled out, not everyone can enjoy this kind of music. The band most responsible in this genre is Mayhem, Motorhead, Venom. Initially, the concept of their music focuses on the era of darkness, devil worship. Until finally gave birth to various types of extreme metal, from Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Death Metal. Until now, the more extreme metal bands that still exist and inspire the emergence of many young metalheads and more varied in concept. Legendary bands that still exist are Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Kreator, Emperor. (various sources)