Rock + Pop
Introduction The rock + roll revolution
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In the 1960s, there were unparalleled changes in rock + O
In the 1950s, rapid changes in youth culture had
pop music occurred throughout Britain + the U.S.A, with the
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The move to write music with more artistic intent explosion of Rock + Roll music
towards the end of the 1960s led to a plethora of new O
Rock + Roll shares may features with Blues
styles in the 1970s + 1980s ↳
12 bar blues chord progressions
O
Advances + developments in music technology led to ↳
Stop chorus
the increasing use of synthesisers, samplers + recording ↳
Blues scale + blue notes
effects, along with more polished recordings + artistic ↳
Shuffle rhythms
freedom + the evolution of further styles, the O
‘Johnny B. Goode’ - Chuck Berry (1958)
development of those already in existence + the ↳
‘Johnny B. Goode’ is loosely biographical + is said to
evolution of further styles, the development of those relate to Berry himself
already in existence + the creation of + amalgamation ↳
The song begins with an overdriven guitar solo based on
of sub-genres the blues scale + accompanied by 2 stop chords
O
In the 1990s, there was even more reliance on ↳
The song’s 12 bar blues start to become apparent as
technology, but some artists + bands chose to simplify the rhythm section introduce a walking bass pattern
things, taking a step backwards + becoming more based on chord IV
independent in their approach to songwriting + ↳
There is a strong backbeat emphasis + the repeated
releasing music vocal patterns in the chorus are syncopated
O
Rock music: the electric guitar ↳
The melody in chorus is structured like a blues 3 line
↳
A pivotal moment in the development of rock music lyric (AAB)
was the invention of the electric guitar O
Rock + Roll’s cultural revolution was equivalent to its
The original intention, to make the acoustic guitar
-
musical impact
more audible when playing in big bands, now pales in ↳
In the 1950s, Britain + the U.S.A. were moving beyond
comparison with the flexibility of its use across the their ‘post-war’ years
genre Teenagers were rebelling, had more spending power +
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The electric guitar was initially hollow-bodied like
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- were looking for a musical style to call their own
an acoustic guitar g
Rockabilly was an early form of rock + roll that fused
It was Leo Fender who created the first
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country + blues music + was made famous by Carl
commercially-successful solid-body electric guitar Perkins + Elvis Presley
↳
Presley ended up a rock + roll icon who quickly moved
The Fender Stratocaster away from his Rockabilly roots + whose attitude,
clothing + hairstyle were emulated by a generation
O
The Stratocaster was first introduced in 1954 + was ↳
Bill Haley’s ‘Rock Around the Clock’, released in 1954,
made famous by artists such as Buddy Holly + Jimi is often credited as marking the start of the new rock
Hendrix + roll style
↳
The solid body design of the Stratocaster meant that ↳
Artists such as Chuck Berry + Bo Diddley pioneered this
the guitar was less likely to cause feedback when new, guitar-led style with reduced instrumentation +
played with heavy amplification shorter, snappier song structures than had been seen
↳
It was the first guitar to feature a in jazz + big band music
spring tension tremolo system
which slackens
+ tightens the strings +
enables the guitarist to
bend the pitch of a note
↳
It had 3 separate pickups with a selector switch, so
guitarists could change the tone of the instrument
during performance
, Rock + Pop
New styles in britain + the ‘british invasion’
G
In 1960s Britain, pop artists such as Cliff Richard + Adam Faith were releasing music to great success amongst older generations
+ Lonnie Donegan was recording Skiffle music
-
This sound formed the basis of the Beatles’ early recordings
O
Skiffle music featured everyday items used as instruments, such as washboards + home made basses along with a strummed
instrument such as a guitar or banjo
The Beatles The Mellotron
O
Formed in Liverpool, The Beatles were signed to EMI after O
The Mellotron is an early sampler that was invented in
performances at the Cavern Club + a brief spell the 1960s
performing in Germany O
It has been used by artists as
O
After their moderately successful release ‘Love Me Do’, diverse as The Beatles, Pink
increasingly popular ‘Please Please Me’ + hit ‘From Me to Floyd + Oasis + is based upon
You’, they were under pressure to recreate the success individual strips of tape that are
in their 4th single triggered by a keyboard
↳
‘She Loves You’, with its repeated vocal hook refrain, g
Each piece of tape represents a different pitch
achieved the fastest sales of any UK record up to that
time
O
The Beatles and The Rolling Stones sparked a British The Electric Piano
musical revolution + gained huge amounts of commercial O
An electric piano functions like an acoustic piano, but
success at home + abroad instead of hitting strings, the hammers hit small
↳
The music was new + emulated metal reeds or wires called tines
the R&B music coming out of the O
Vibrations on the tines are
U.S.A then captured using pickups
This music quickly became
-
+ amplified
known as British Beat or O
The Fender Rhodes is one of the most famous electric
Merseybeat, reflecting its pianos
Liverpool origins
It was a little bit
-
controversial + appealed to The Rolling Stones
a young audience
↳
The success of the bands + music in the U.S.A is often
O
The Rolling Stones were contemporaries of The Beatles +
referred to as the ‘British Invasion’ were famous for having an edgier, grittier sound
O
The Beatles later became more experimental in their use
g
They were successful in Britain + the U.S.A as part of
of technology + their image also changed along with an the ‘British Invasion’
increase in political awareness that came through their
O
The Rolling Stones were instrumental in embedding
music stylistic features from blues music into rock, while also
↳
This was linked to the freedom of expression generally creating a style that was rich in rhythm + blues + soul
apparent throughout popular culture in the later 1960s
g
In the late 1960s The Beatles, in particular George The Who
Harrison, began to look to other styles of music +
musical cultures for inspiration O
The Who also gained significant success in the 1960s +
↳
Harrison took up lessons with Ravi Shankar, a sitar were known for their heavy guitar sound along with
master Pete Townshend’s use of feedback,
↳
The Beatles + subsequently The Rolling Stones power chords + his ‘windmill’
incorporated elements of Indian Classical Music into guitar-technique
their songs G
They were also well known for
Instruments such as the sitar + tanpura were often
-
destroying their instruments on
used, along with with scalic influences from Indian stage during live performances
Raga O
The Who influenced ‘mod’ culture with followers
Repeated rhythmic patterns reminiscent of the Tala
*
wearing parkas + smart suits + riding scooters + are
patterns found in Indian Classical music formed an still cited as influential by punk rock bands
influential part of the psychedelic rock movement
in the 60s + 70s
Introduction The rock + roll revolution
O
In the 1960s, there were unparalleled changes in rock + O
In the 1950s, rapid changes in youth culture had
pop music occurred throughout Britain + the U.S.A, with the
↳
The move to write music with more artistic intent explosion of Rock + Roll music
towards the end of the 1960s led to a plethora of new O
Rock + Roll shares may features with Blues
styles in the 1970s + 1980s ↳
12 bar blues chord progressions
O
Advances + developments in music technology led to ↳
Stop chorus
the increasing use of synthesisers, samplers + recording ↳
Blues scale + blue notes
effects, along with more polished recordings + artistic ↳
Shuffle rhythms
freedom + the evolution of further styles, the O
‘Johnny B. Goode’ - Chuck Berry (1958)
development of those already in existence + the ↳
‘Johnny B. Goode’ is loosely biographical + is said to
evolution of further styles, the development of those relate to Berry himself
already in existence + the creation of + amalgamation ↳
The song begins with an overdriven guitar solo based on
of sub-genres the blues scale + accompanied by 2 stop chords
O
In the 1990s, there was even more reliance on ↳
The song’s 12 bar blues start to become apparent as
technology, but some artists + bands chose to simplify the rhythm section introduce a walking bass pattern
things, taking a step backwards + becoming more based on chord IV
independent in their approach to songwriting + ↳
There is a strong backbeat emphasis + the repeated
releasing music vocal patterns in the chorus are syncopated
O
Rock music: the electric guitar ↳
The melody in chorus is structured like a blues 3 line
↳
A pivotal moment in the development of rock music lyric (AAB)
was the invention of the electric guitar O
Rock + Roll’s cultural revolution was equivalent to its
The original intention, to make the acoustic guitar
-
musical impact
more audible when playing in big bands, now pales in ↳
In the 1950s, Britain + the U.S.A. were moving beyond
comparison with the flexibility of its use across the their ‘post-war’ years
genre Teenagers were rebelling, had more spending power +
-
The electric guitar was initially hollow-bodied like
*
- were looking for a musical style to call their own
an acoustic guitar g
Rockabilly was an early form of rock + roll that fused
It was Leo Fender who created the first
>
-
country + blues music + was made famous by Carl
commercially-successful solid-body electric guitar Perkins + Elvis Presley
↳
Presley ended up a rock + roll icon who quickly moved
The Fender Stratocaster away from his Rockabilly roots + whose attitude,
clothing + hairstyle were emulated by a generation
O
The Stratocaster was first introduced in 1954 + was ↳
Bill Haley’s ‘Rock Around the Clock’, released in 1954,
made famous by artists such as Buddy Holly + Jimi is often credited as marking the start of the new rock
Hendrix + roll style
↳
The solid body design of the Stratocaster meant that ↳
Artists such as Chuck Berry + Bo Diddley pioneered this
the guitar was less likely to cause feedback when new, guitar-led style with reduced instrumentation +
played with heavy amplification shorter, snappier song structures than had been seen
↳
It was the first guitar to feature a in jazz + big band music
spring tension tremolo system
which slackens
+ tightens the strings +
enables the guitarist to
bend the pitch of a note
↳
It had 3 separate pickups with a selector switch, so
guitarists could change the tone of the instrument
during performance
, Rock + Pop
New styles in britain + the ‘british invasion’
G
In 1960s Britain, pop artists such as Cliff Richard + Adam Faith were releasing music to great success amongst older generations
+ Lonnie Donegan was recording Skiffle music
-
This sound formed the basis of the Beatles’ early recordings
O
Skiffle music featured everyday items used as instruments, such as washboards + home made basses along with a strummed
instrument such as a guitar or banjo
The Beatles The Mellotron
O
Formed in Liverpool, The Beatles were signed to EMI after O
The Mellotron is an early sampler that was invented in
performances at the Cavern Club + a brief spell the 1960s
performing in Germany O
It has been used by artists as
O
After their moderately successful release ‘Love Me Do’, diverse as The Beatles, Pink
increasingly popular ‘Please Please Me’ + hit ‘From Me to Floyd + Oasis + is based upon
You’, they were under pressure to recreate the success individual strips of tape that are
in their 4th single triggered by a keyboard
↳
‘She Loves You’, with its repeated vocal hook refrain, g
Each piece of tape represents a different pitch
achieved the fastest sales of any UK record up to that
time
O
The Beatles and The Rolling Stones sparked a British The Electric Piano
musical revolution + gained huge amounts of commercial O
An electric piano functions like an acoustic piano, but
success at home + abroad instead of hitting strings, the hammers hit small
↳
The music was new + emulated metal reeds or wires called tines
the R&B music coming out of the O
Vibrations on the tines are
U.S.A then captured using pickups
This music quickly became
-
+ amplified
known as British Beat or O
The Fender Rhodes is one of the most famous electric
Merseybeat, reflecting its pianos
Liverpool origins
It was a little bit
-
controversial + appealed to The Rolling Stones
a young audience
↳
The success of the bands + music in the U.S.A is often
O
The Rolling Stones were contemporaries of The Beatles +
referred to as the ‘British Invasion’ were famous for having an edgier, grittier sound
O
The Beatles later became more experimental in their use
g
They were successful in Britain + the U.S.A as part of
of technology + their image also changed along with an the ‘British Invasion’
increase in political awareness that came through their
O
The Rolling Stones were instrumental in embedding
music stylistic features from blues music into rock, while also
↳
This was linked to the freedom of expression generally creating a style that was rich in rhythm + blues + soul
apparent throughout popular culture in the later 1960s
g
In the late 1960s The Beatles, in particular George The Who
Harrison, began to look to other styles of music +
musical cultures for inspiration O
The Who also gained significant success in the 1960s +
↳
Harrison took up lessons with Ravi Shankar, a sitar were known for their heavy guitar sound along with
master Pete Townshend’s use of feedback,
↳
The Beatles + subsequently The Rolling Stones power chords + his ‘windmill’
incorporated elements of Indian Classical Music into guitar-technique
their songs G
They were also well known for
Instruments such as the sitar + tanpura were often
-
destroying their instruments on
used, along with with scalic influences from Indian stage during live performances
Raga O
The Who influenced ‘mod’ culture with followers
Repeated rhythmic patterns reminiscent of the Tala
*
wearing parkas + smart suits + riding scooters + are
patterns found in Indian Classical music formed an still cited as influential by punk rock bands
influential part of the psychedelic rock movement
in the 60s + 70s
