Year 11 HT1 Rock music and Texture

Typical rock instruments

• 3 guitars and a drum kit

• 2 pianos and a violin

• 1 saxophone and 2 trumpets

• 4 flutes and a harp

Typical Time signature

• 4/4

• 3/4

• 6/8

• 2/4

Verse and chorus

• Strophic form

• Binary form

• Ternary form

• Rondo form

Short melody to catch the listener’s attention

• Riff or hook

• Verse

• Chorus

• Bridge

Simple chord progressions often using which chords?

• Chords 1, IV and V

• Chords II, III and VI

• Chords I, II and III

• Chords IV, V and VI

Chords for guitar made up of open 5ths

• Power chords

• Major chords

• Minor chords

• Diminished chords

Emphasis on beats 2 and 4

• Back Beat

• Off Beat

• Syncopation

• Down Beat

Typical guitar technique used

• Distortion

• Fingerpicking

• Slap Bass

• Tapping

Occasional high male singing

• Falsetto

• Baritone

• Tenor

• Bass

One line

• Monophonic

• Polyphonic

• Homophonic

• Heterophonic