Genre of Music

What is Genre in Music?

A music classification is a routine classification that distinguishes a few bits of music as having a place with a mutual custom or set of traditions. It is to be recognized from musical structure and musical style, in spite of the fact that by and by these terms are here and there utilized reciprocally.

Music can be partitioned into various classifications in a wide range of ways. The aesthetic way of music implies that these groupings are regularly subjective and disputable, and a few kinds may cover. There are notwithstanding differing scholastic meanings of the term sort itself.

Categories of Music

Pop Blues Jazz Rock Metal

POP

The core elements which define pop include generally short length songs, written in a basic format, as well as the common employment of repeated choruses. It is vocally driven. Vocals are the most important part of the song along with the lyrics. Doesn't matter how simple and boring the background instruments (if any) are.

Tips to identify: Soft songs with the same looped beats. Singer mostly singing throughout the song.

Blues

This is pop made better with more importance for clean and overdriven guitars, groovy bass and soft drums. It is often typically characterized by employment of specific blues scales, bluesy chord progressions a call-and-response pattern. It will take a lot of listening to tell it from some forms of pop.

Tips to identify: You need to listen to a lot of blues to identify those blues scales and chords being played.

Jazz

The basic elements are improvisation, syncopation, rhythm, blue notes, melody(the tune) and harmony(notes that fit well with the tune).  Its structure is typically more complex than other popular forms of music. There is greater emphasis on the instruments used. They aren't in the background anymore. They form the heart of the song.

Tips to identify: Inability to follow the song. Lots and lots of bass. Incorporation of instruments you've never heard before like the sax.

Rock

Rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a band with bass, drums and a vocalist. Generic rock is just pop with distorted guitars but the genre is so diverse it has a lot of its sub-genres laying emphasis on the instruments, the best being progressive rock.

Tips to identify: Distorted guitars, heavier drums.

Metal

Characterized by high amplification, speed, heavy distorted guitar riffs, extended solos, dense bass and lots(and lots) of drums with heavy emphasis for the bass drums. Vocals is generally given lesser priority and the songs are driven by the instruments. This genre along with Jazz do the best job in showcasing the instrumentalists' talent.

Tips to identify: Heavy sounding, hard to follow, harsh vocals, tons of riffs and solos.

Instruments Used

Jazz: o Saxophone, Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Drums.

Rock: o Electric Guitar(With distortion), Electronic Piano, Drums.

Blues: o Acoustic\Electric Guitar(Blues tone), Piano, Drums.

Rap, Pop: o Don't know. Haven't listened to this genre much.

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