RESEARCH ON MUSIC GENREBy: Daniyal Sattar

ROCK MUSIC

ROCK MUSIC is the genre of popular music as it was

originated in United States in 1950 and then further

more classified into different type of Rock music.

Rock music is being accompanied by guitar, drum

and bass. Many style of rock music use keyboard

instruments such as piano, mellotron and

synthesizer. Rock Music usually consist of strong

back beat, which often revolves around guitar. Many

Rock band consist of guitarist, lead singer, bass

guitarist and drummer forming a choir.

SUB GENRE

Rock Music consist of some types of sub genres:

1) Hard Rock 2) Soft Rock

3) Heavy Metal 4) Punk Rock

5) Garage Rock 6) Instrumental Rock

SELECTED GENRE

The genre, I would go for my music album is,

“SOFT ROCK”.

SOFT ROCK

• Soft Rock or light rock is a style of music which uses

the techniques of rock music often combined with

elements from folk music to compose a softer, more

toned-down sound. Hard rock had been established

as a mainstream genre by 1965. From the end of the

1960s, it became common to divide mainstream rock

music into soft and hard rock, with both emerging as

major radio formats in the US. Soft rock was often

derived from folk rock, using acoustic instruments

and putting more emphasis on melody and

harmonies.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The target audience for soft rock music is most likely

to be teenagers and young adults which ranges from

16-25. This genre of music attracts young people

more than the other age groups, so that’s why rock

music is most popular music among all the genres.

EXAMPLE BAND AND SONGS

Some of the examples of bands and songs of soft

rock music are as follow:

1) Air Supply : Faith in Love

2) Journey : Chain of Love

3) Fleetwood Mac : You Make Loving Fun

4) Eagle : How Long

AIR SUPPLY

JOURNEY

FLEETWOOD MAC

EAGLE

LOCATION

Almost every rock music video has same sort of

crowd and stage as shown in the pictures below.

They also mainly base their locations in dark

lighting and revolve the location around the

narrative of the song.

COSTUME

The soft rock consist of leather jackets, jeans, t-

shirts, boots, trousers and bands as there

costume in videos and live performance.

HAIR SLYLE AND MAKEUP

The band members of soft rock music usually have

untidy and long hairs and they use a little amount

and dull makeup for live performance or in videos.

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