What Music Genre Do You Like ?

Music is a sound arranged in such a way that it contains rhythms, songs, and harmony primarily from sounds generated from instruments that can produce rhythm Although music is a kind of intuition phenomenon, to create, improve and present it is an art form.

A. BLUES
Blues is a stream of music coming from the United States (US). Blues evolved from the spiritual music and the praises that emerged from the African slave community in the US. Before the 20th century, blues music was only popular among black Americans. The characteristics of this music is the pattern of rhythms are often used ie AAB pattern. Blues music seems sad. His guitar is always full of improvisation. Examples of musicians who use this genre, namely B. King.

B. COUNTRY
Country music is the traditional music of American immigrants who began to flourish in the western and southern United States (Nashville, Tennessee). This music is a development of Kelt music and gospel music. Country music originally known by the name of Old Time is around the 1920s. Then later in the 1940s the term was changed to Bluegrass music. Until finally around the year 1950 until now the term country began to be used. In the United Kingdom and Ireland country music is often called with Western music. Characteristic of this genre of music is mostly using string instruments such as banjo, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, violin, and harmonica. This music is identical to the traditional American culture of cowboy clothes. Examples of musicians of this famous genre are Taylor Swift

C. JAZZ
Jazz is a stream of music that originated from Afro-South American societies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The word Jazz is derived from slang (the language of the western coastal suburbs of the United States, which for the first time used the term jazz in 1915 in Chicago.Jazz music grew out of blues, ragtime, and European music combinations.The instruments used were guitars, Trombone, piano, trumpet, and saxophone The tones of jazz have unique characteristics in the game.The characteristics of this genre are the vocals and the lyrics tend to be regarded as part of the sound of the instrument.The rhythm and the melody have a tendency to improvise Jason Mraz Is one of the famous musicians of this genre.

D. CLASSIC
Classical music usually refers to European classical music. In European countries classical music is divided into popular classical music and classical music en Europe. Classical music refers to music rooted in Western art traditions, Christian music, and orchestral music. Classical music went from the 9th to the 21st century. The characteristics of classical music that is the use of crescendo and decrescendo dynamics. Crescendo is the change of the dynamics of the song from soft to hard and loud. While decrescendo on the contrary, changes its dynamics from hard to soft. Another feature is the change of tempo using accelerando faster) and ritarteando (the softer).

E. POP
Pop music or popular music is a genre of music that became the development of rock music. This genre began to grow and popular in the 1950s. The genre is popular because it has greater appeal than any other genre. Pop music has a softer style than rock so it is easily accepted by the public. As a genre, pop music is eclectic, which often borrows elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, latin and country to form the best work. Characteristics of pop music that is used melody is easy to apply with various lyric characters, flexible and easily combined with other types, the song is easy to hum and easy to understand, harmony is not complicated, the tempo can be varied. Example of one of the famous musicians of this genre as well as the man who was nicknamed the pop king of Michael Jackson.

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F. R & B
R & B (or RnB) or short for "rhythm & blues" is a fairly popular genre that originated in African-American music in the 1940s. One RNB band usually consists of a pianist, one or two guitarists, a vocalist, a bass, a drummer, and a saxophone. The characteristics of this genre, the lyrics of the song, focus on themes of victory and failure in relationships, freedom, economics, aspirations, and sexuality. Style is presented closer to pop, jazz and soul. R & B focuses more on good vocal quality and more relaxed lyrics. The music is more pleasant to hear because this genre combines jazz, gospel and blue. R & B music tends to favor improvisation of melodies, especially singers' vocals with progressive harmonization. One of his famous singers today is Justin Timberlake.

G. RAP
Rap is one of the elements of hip-hop music. A rap singer dubbed as rapper. In bringing this song a rapper must use vocal techniques and speech quickly. In the performances rap music is usually always accompanied by a DJ or a band. A famous rapper example is like Jay-Z. There is also a rapper who became a member of the band, such as Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park. Generally, rappers are black because many rappers come from the periphery. But there are also some white rappers like Eminem and Sean Paul.

H. REGGAE
Reggae is from Jamaica. The word reggae is derived from the pronunciation in African accent from the word ragged which means like a body beat when dancing to the accompaniment of music. This music is the development of the music of its predecessor Ska and Rocksteady. This music is influenced by American jazz and RnB. One of the familiar elements of reggae music is the offbeat rhythm that comes from the guitar or piano, although the bass guitar plays much more. Example Bands that use reggae genre: Steven And Coconut Treez

I. ROCK
Rock music is a popular musical genre that originated in rock and roll music in the United States in the 1950s. This music belongs to the flow of loud music. The most dominant used in this music is electric guitar. A rock group consists of a bass guitar, an electric guitar, and a drum. Rock music has three chords, a consistent and striking bakcbeat and an interesting melody. Rock music uses a beat that comes from one of the rhythm of blues music called boogie woogie plus backbeat emphasis which is filled with snare drum punch. In the late 60s and early 70s, rock music evolved into several types. Rock evolved into various subgenres such as soft rock, glam rock, heavy metal, hard rock, progressive rock, and punk rock. Up to now rock music has been so fast. So much so that the sub genre of this music reaches dozens of species. Examples of rock bands such as Bon Jovi, The Beatles, Metallica and others.

J. TECHNO
Techno genre is the flow of music that uses futuristic themes or the concept of the future. Techno music is also used in clubing venues and usually this music is played by a DJ. This music is not played with traditional musical instruments such as guitars, drums and so on. However, using only digital instruments such as Dj makers commonly used to remix existing music into futuristic-themed music. Examples of musicians who use the techno genre: Carl Cox and Mike Bank

K. DANGDUT
The last one is one of the mainstay music genres of the country. In fact many of these genre music works are from Indonesia. And the rest of India and other Asian regions. This musical form was flung from Malay music in the 1940s. In the evolution to contemporary forms now enter the influence of elements of Indian music) and Arab (on the crook and harmonization). Changes in Indonesian political currents in the late 1960s opened the influx of strong western music with the introduction of the use of electric guitars as well as their marketing forms. Since the 1970s dangdut may be said to have matured in its contemporary form. As a popular music, dangdut is very open to the influence of other musical forms, ranging from keroncong, styles, degung, gambus, rock, pop, and even house music. From this genre, the most famous singer with hits-hitsnya the king dangdut Rhoma Irama.

And many other types of music

So. What kind of music do you like?