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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