... keeps a simple steady beat, and the electronic keyboards is replaced with what sounds to be like an organ. The song then goes into a verse where Ville passionately sings, while the drum part is somewhat simple, the guitar part is still very harsh, and the organ continuously repeats the same pattern. In the refrain, the band makes the music sound as if ... someone is in a dungeon of some sort. The way they create this effect is by Salminen creating dark odd sounds from his keyboard while there is a drum beat in the background and Linde creating feedback from his guitar. In the song, Vill...

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... way the more lyrically focused hip-hop does. It needed the lyric of the poet. Also, they still relied on their jagged edges being intact and still used the talking drum of instrumentation to present day. It captures the black position of struggle, resistance, righteousness, and exploitation in Black America. Hip-hop fused these two forms - poetry and Jazz. It rendered ... life captured the urban black youth. "It's Like That" became an anthem of black youth. Run DMC's hard edge rap was coupled with guitar riffs, an uncompromising bass and a talking drum of the R&B and funk traditions, wh...

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... of songs can also be recognized in the differences between genres. The relaxing soft melodies of some songs can be interpreted as slow and steady. While the jolting bass and drum of an song that's electronica is meant to be such a fast paced rush that gives the listener an urge to move and dance. Another way that music affects the mind ... ...

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... such as "Teen Angel." The public swooned for such songs. They were happy, the talked of all things good and lacked the sinful sounds of a howling electric guitar and bounding drum riffs. In January 1962 Chubby Checker introduced the world to The Twist. Out of the darkness of the night then came, The Stomp, The Hucklebuck, The Watusi, The Fly, The ... ...

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... , Acid House was born. The early overall term of Techno, used for the harder, faster style, splintered into a myriad different offspring, each with a slightly different rhythm and tempo. Trance, Hardcore, Drum and Bass amongst others still persist and are still splintering to keep their freshness and variety. What was originally a few thousand people travelling to parties has become a major part of ... ...

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... " look. This made young rappers that were hungry for fame and fortune take on the look of being thugs themselves. The move of raps' homeland, New York, to the West Coast caused a dramatic change to the sound. People tend to miss the true skill rather that all the violence and how many people that get killed. Rap's image is being tainted ... ...

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