Overview of the Rock genre

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Rock The rock music genre originally started in and after the 1960’s/50’s in mainly the United States. Rock is mainly centered around the |Electric guitar, but also includes instruments such as the drums, bass and generally a singer. Rock has diversified into several other groups including more modern ‘Screamo’ style singing, which includes heavier music paired with literal screaming and inaudible words. Rock has since the 60’s combined with a number of different genres including pop and punk. Punk rock was developed mainly between the years of 1974 and 1976 in the United States and later brought over to the UK. This genre is one that has stuck and brought into the modern day.

 The most well-known rock bands and singers are along the lines of:
• The rolling stones
• Bullet for my valentine
• My chemical romance
• The white stripes
• The killers
• System of a down
• Red hot chili peppers
• Blink 182
• Foo fighters

The rolling stones are a key band in the development of the rock genre as they were first formed around the time that rock music first came about (1962) and have continued to steadily release new material that was always of the rock genre, sometimes veering into the heavier rock but always the same genre. Their music all has the same rock-y feel to it. As of around the 1990’s rock music has taken a turn into the more pop-y and punk side with artists such as Cobra Starship, Paramore, VersaEmerge and Gym Class Heroes being classed as still rock, but more pop rock as their music has less guitar and drums and a lot more bass to it.