... two discusses the listening skill needed to better understand music. Through listening we can define the social impact of a rock group and its musical style. This purpose of this chapter is to outline ways in which the individual can create his or her own system of analysis. The chapter then goes on describing what you need to do while listening to music to better ... like, what its about, and what it has. After that you add more information by listening to each part of the music individually. Lyrics are the easiest to analyze. You must write all the lyrics down and figure out if there ...

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... to preserve." (Wilentz) This statement reflects well on both Dylan AND System of a Down. Another connection that makes both Bob Dylan and System of a Down guitar/music heroes are the lyrics they spout. Revolutionaries in their own ways, these men fight/fought the system with lyrics criticizing the politics of the world. Serj Tankian, singer for System of a Down, prefers singing "abstract, existential poetry peppered with politics and personal religion." ... own, then for the hope he gives teenagers who only find solace in a rabid form of music that matches the angst inside them (Megadet...

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