Rock Music

The Rock subgenre I am going to be focusing on today would be from the time frame of Eddie Fisher, Perry Como, Patti Page, and Elvis Presley. This time frame was named to era of Rock and Roll music. The foundations of rock music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the world. The song I will using as an example is by Elves Presley is called “My Way”.
Some of the distinctive characterizes that usually defines this genre is the use if electric guitars. The use of electric guitars where prominent since artists found it easier to create variations in the tone, pitch, and distortion which added to the performance by the artist. Another characteristic of this genre is the existence of small ensembles that play the entire song unlike in Jazz where there are a large number of players playing the song. Usually a rock and roll band consisted of around 3 – 6 players. Thirdly, rock and rock music tends to have a special emphasis on the lyrics that is being sung by the sing. The singer tends to dress in fashionable clothes such that people would be appealed by the clothes they were. There is also a strong presents of a four-beat cycle in all songs. This is usually kept by the drums using the snare and the bass.
As you can see from the start of the song there is a constant presents of electric guitar throughout entire song. Secondly, there are a very limit number of people in the band; there are only 6 in total band players in the entire group. Throughout the song you can notice an equal importance for both the lyrics and the music by providing them at almost equal volume to the listeners. When the drums joins the groups the for- beat cycle can be noticed if you listen to the drummer. The second and forth beat are louder than the first and second beat.
This is the video I have been using to talk about Rock and Roll: