The modern stage offers dozens of musical directions and styles, from classical to so-called heavy music. It is difficult not only in performance, but also in perception - compositions, as a rule, abound with harsh sounds, non-standard parts.
It is believed that heavy music is the lot of young people. She was born as a protest, and therefore it is teenagers who perceive her so well. But over time, most young people rethink their attitude to life and music, musical preferences change. Those, to whom the spirit of disobedience is close by nature, carry the craving for heavy music throughout their lives.
The main styles of heavy music are:
- metal, - rock, - punk, - grunge.
Almost all directions are represented by various styles and variations, for example, there are more than 20 styles of rock itself, there are glam rock and hard rock. Moreover, each style has its own flow and characteristic musical rhythms.
Metal
In the early 80s of the twentieth century, heavy music called metal emerged. This trend originated among young people living in California. Young people decided to combine two styles: punk rock and hardcore. Metal was characterized by heavy sounds, with an abundance of guitar and drum parts. The soloist who performed the song did not sing at times, but simply shouted out the lyrics.
Progressive metal is considered to be the intellectual genre of heavy music. The thing is that the songs are 20-30 minutes long with a constantly changing tempo. Such songs are distinguished by long guitar and keyboard plays and hard vocals. But such an inventive sound was difficult for people to perceive, so this style did not gain popularity, and from the point of view of financial investments, it turned out to be completely untenable.
Rock
In the mid-sixties, garage rock became wildly popular, it was not named that by chance, because in most American cities, every family had a garage, which was a hangout place for children and adolescents. It was in such garages that young people created musical groups, invented music and rehearsed. Distinctive features of this direction are incredible energy and, unfortunately, low quality of the recording, since the musicians did not have much money to record in the studios.
Alternative
Today, the most popular style of heavy music is alternative, which has combined a great variety of directions: from grunge to punk. This style was originally conceived as free from the rules and unlike any other. The alternative won wildly popularity among fans of heavy music, but it also attracted the attention of music lovers who did not like either rock or punk. The secret of success turned out to be simple: along with the harshness of metal and the breakaway of punk, there was a place for good vocals and real melodies in the alternative. It was the alternative that caused the emergence of many beloved lyrical rock ballads.
