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Hard Rock Abdulaziz alkuwari
The Style of Music
What is Hard Rock?
• highly amplified rock music with a heavy beat
• subgenre of rock music
• earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock , blues rock and psychedelic rock.
• heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums
• electric guitar is often emphasized
• relies on three main instruments
• electric guitar
• bass guitar
• drums
Instruments used
Famous bands
• AC/DC
• KISS
• Metallica
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Led Zeppelin
Similarities
Hard Rock VS Heavy Metal
• Loud guitars
• Pounding drums
• Driving rhythms
• Often vitriolic vocals
Differences
Hard Rock VS Heavy Metal
• Metal has a different guitar/drums combination than hard rock
• The lyrics
• Heavy Metal lyrics occult, pagan magic, anti Christianity, deeper darker themes
• Hard Rock more phallic in nature
Sample of Hard Rock
How to recognize this genre
• the loud guitars
• the pounding drums
• the driving rhythm
• the vitriolic vocals
Fun Fact
in 1990 the band “Judas Priest” was sued by 2 families accusing them of inspiring their son to commit suicide through the subliminal messages in there music. The judge thought that the messages were not put in intentionally and the case was dropped
Subliminal Messages
History of Hard Rock
• Origins (1960s)
• Expansion (1970s)
• Glam metal era (1980s)
• Grunge and Britpop (1990s)
• Survivals and revivals (2000–present)
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