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Rock music is a form of music that usually has heavy beats and rythms. Sub-genres within it include Alternative, Grunge, Metal, Classic, and pop.

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  • Rock music is a form of music that usually has heavy beats and rythms. Sub-genres within it include Alternative, Grunge, Metal, Classic, and pop.
  • Because of its pedestrian nature, rock music has been described as "the music of dunces", and it is possible to play perfectly acceptable rock without any talent, training, or intelligence. Indeed, amateur garage-based musicians perform their pieces with no less proficiency than those who frequent the concert halls. Playing rock music requires no special skills, neither musical nor social, which sets it apart from real music such as classical, jazz, and polka.
  • Rock or rock music is a mainstream genre, which is pretty broad, almost too broad for Misencyclopedia to endure (but never too much for it to endure), and definitely too broad for Wikipedia, so yeah, definitely. Don't ever forget it either. The popular rock morphed from rock n' roll to gospel to soft rock to rap to many other things. It was weird, yeah.
  • Rock music was a form of music. Enjoyed by Boo Rawl, rock music songs tended to have anti-Imperial lyrics and were thus blacklisted by the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order.
  • Foo Fighters - "Learn To Fly" Blink - 182 - "All The Small Things" Smash Mouth - "I'm A Believer" Linkin Park - "In The End" Aerosmith - "Jaded" Smash Mouth - "All Star" Train - "Drops of Jupiter" 3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite" Sum 41 - "Fat Lip" Lifehouse - "Hanging By A Moment" System of a Down - "Chop Suey" Fountains of Wayne - "Stacy's Mom" Nickelback - "How You Remind Me" Maroon 5 - "This Love" Yellowcard - "Ocean Avenue" Alien Ant Farm - "Smooth Criminal" U2 - "Beautiful Day" Coldplay - "Clocks" Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle" Evanescence - "Bring Me To Life" Good Charlotte - "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" The All American Rejects - "Gives You Hell" The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army" Disturbed - "Another Way To Die" Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out" Counting Crows - "Accidentally
  • Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated in the United States in the 1950s, and then developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s' and 1950s' rock and roll, which was heavily influenced by blues, electric blues and rhythm and blues. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as jazz, country, and folk, and incorporated influences from classical and other musical sources.
  • Rock music is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody, accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, mellotron, and synthesizers. Other instruments sometimes utilized in rock include saxophone, harmonica, violin, flute, French horn, banjo, melodica, and timpani. Also, less common stringed instruments such as mandolin and sitar are used. Rock music usually has a strong back beat, and often revolves around the guitar, either solid electric, hollow electric, or acoustic.
  • Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s' and 1950s' rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical sources.
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