Early Rock!

1. Early Rock! • By: Nawal and Arshia

2. Introduction • Early Rock was first revealed in the 1960s • Developed in 1965 in North America and Britain • This style usually included white audience and musicians for example: • The Beatles • Rolling Stones (in Britain)

3. Instruments • There were many instruments used in early rock, but mainly: • Guitars • Drums • Keyboards There were many specific different types of guitars, drums and keyboards which were used.

4. Guitars Warr Guitar SynthAxe Rickenbacker Bass Zon Hyperbass

5. Drums Bodhran V-Drum and Keyboards Roto Tom Mellotron Fender Rhodes

6. Main ensembles + Venues of the genre... • Main ensembles – • • Early Rock ranged widely but most rock ensembles usually called rock bands • • Made up of guitars, keyboards, and rhythm section made up of a bass guitar and drum kit. • • The number of people varied, The king of rock n’ roll was solo, Beatles were a quartet etc. • Venues – • • When famous the bands performed at Rock Concerts, or live areas • • Starting out, the bands performed in public to attract audiences, as Rock more of a Public sort of music.

7. Similarities + Differences in Jazz and Early Rock • Differences: • Jazz has a orchestra of wind, strings instruments and percussion. Early Rock mostly electric string instruments accompanied with beats. • Jazz is more sophisticated, soothe, state-of-art and difficult to perform. Whereas early rock is loud, wild, but easier to perform. • Jazz music is syncopated (swung eighth notes) while rock is more defined as having eighth notes played straight. • Similarities: • Both genres portray feelings, written and performed to express one’s feelings. • Time signatures are similar between jazz and rock. • The instruments utilized between both genres.

8. What distinctive instruments and languages areused in the genre? • Language: English was the main language of the genre as it originated in the US and was big in England. • There was a slight variation in the English language due to location, but more or less the same. • Instruments: Electric + Acoustic Guitars, Drum Kits, Key boards, Snare Drum, Steal Bass Electric guitar.

9. Did written music look different from what you know today? • Music was written in the same way from the 20th-21st century, the style of writing out the notes is the same now as it was back then for this genre, but if you were to look at Medieval Music then there would be huge differences.

10. How can you recognize the genre by listening to the piece? • Early rock, like many other types of rock and roll has a very distinctive sound. Just by listening to the music, you are able to tell what genre it is, and we do this by listening out for the different rhythms and instruments. Most fast paced, guitar based pieces of music tend to have a slight heavy tune and therefore are depicted as Rock. Whereas something more mellow with a peppy beat could be taken as modern Pop music.

11. The Beatles

12. Elvis “The King”

13. Bibliography • Machlis, Joseph. "Rock and Global Scene." The Enjoyment of Music. By Kristine Forney. New York: Norton&Company, 2007. 580-84. Print. • The Beatles. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. http://www.thebeatles.com/ • "Elvis Presley." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley • "Rock and Roll." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll • "GEPR List of Progressive Rock Instruments." New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock. Web. 01 Nov. 2011. <http://www.gepr.net/proginst.html> • Trials, Default? The. "Progressive Rock - Definition, Genres & Articles." Progressive Rock Music Ultimate Discography ... with Free MP3, Videos and Reviews. Web. 01 Nov. 2011. <http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive-rock.asp>

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