subject: Heavy Metal : Story Over Years [print this page] Heavy metal is a genre of rock appeared in the United Kingdom and the United States in the late 1960s. However, the term "heavy metal" is subject to confusion because it can take several different meanings depending on the context in which it is used:In the original context, it is used as a synonym for hard rock .In a second sense, the term refers to the heavy metal band from a more radical aesthetic trend which, in the years 1970 and 1980, SEST unbranded hard rock, blues SELOIGNES its roots .In a large and widespread, heavy metal or metal (for short) means all the music that descended from heavy metal (secondary meaning) and hard rock.
Under this article the term heavy metal is used in its broadest sense. In this sense, it is also commonly known as metal. The heavy metal band draws its inspiration from 1969 and 1974 [4], in hard rock bands which, combining blues and rock, have created a hybrid sound with heavy and thick, centered on the pulse of the drums and guitar to highly amplified distortion.
Over the years, heavy metal has spawned sub-genres. The genre was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s, gradually as the emergence of its sub-genres, and it always generates in the 2000s a strong trend on the part of fans around the world.
Heavy metal is characterized by the dominance of the guitar and drums, and a powerful rhythm. Its main influences in rock, classical music and blues. However, as it includes many sub-genres that have distinguished themselves from each other by their own stylistic variations, there is now a wide variety of sounds and styles within the genre known as "heavy metal".According to the website Allmusic, "the myriad forms of music created by rock and roll, heavy metal is the most extreme in terms of volume, machismo, and theatricality"
In its most common instrumental configuration, a metal band that incorporates the measures of traditional rock instrumental consisting of drums, bass, a rhythm guitar , a guitarist "lead" and a singer (who can play an instrument or not). The keyboards especially the organ and sometimes the mellotron violin cello (Apocalyptica) and even DJ turntables (Sid Wilson of Slipknot) were relatively common in the first heavy metal bands, but gradually their use has become less and less frequent. The drum kit in some formations is enriched with a double bass drums and many toms and cymbals . Within groups of the 2000s, keyboards (especially the synthesizer) and the samples are in vogue in certain sub-genres, while they are rejected by others. Some stylistic trends also make use of external training as symphony orchestras.
The guitar sound combined with the power that propels through the amplification, is the key element of heavy metal . The distorted guitar sound is used to create a more powerful and heavier. Throughout the evolution of the genre, the solos become more complex and the riffs become the hallmark of heavy metal music. For a quick game, guitarists use, among other techniques learned the techniques of sweeping and tapping, especially since many sub-genres encourage virtuosity at the expense of simplicity. Moreover, as and as technological advances, new techniques to transform the sound of the guitar are adopted by the musicians.
During the first half of the 1970s, began to emerge from the groups comprising two guitarists "lead" including Wishbone Ash, The Allman Brothers Band, Scorpions, Thin Lizzy and Judas Priest, all famous for their pair of guitarists capable of providing both solos and melodies and harmonies and accompaniments. Many groups, such as Iron Maiden, then have the habit of alternating within the same song game of their two guitarists, which assume alternately the roles of guitarist, rhythm guitarist and "lead".
In the metal, in contrast to styles such as jazz or funk, the bass generally tends to assume the traditional role of an instrument of low register. Indeed, the bass is typically used for doubling an octave lower parts of the rhythm guitar to highlight the basic harmonic riffs. As such, the report of the bass and rhythm guitar can be to some extent compared with the relationship bass / cello instrumental ensembles classic, where the bass is usually doubled at the octave cello line.
In this role base lining guitar, bass sometimes add notes ornaments or passing notes to enrich their lines. The bass is also often used to play pedal harmony in the background while the guitars play different harmonies on top.
Apart from its traditional role is usually assigned; sometimes the bass plays a more autonomous and independent of the guitar. This is particularly the case with Cliff Burton in Metallica, where the bass could sometimes play a game of dialogue with the guitar (examples: For Whom the Bell Tolls and Orion). The independence of the bass is often a recurring element in the alternative metal and a fundamental role in the style known as funk metal, which takes WHY attributed to the bass in the funk, as is the case of a group as Red Hot Chili Peppers, who often plays lines completely different from the guitar.
