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Cristian Castro Power Metal Bidadari Cristian castro power metal bidadari Continue Maybe I'll start with heavy metal. It would be foolish to say that this is the first musical genre called Metal, kids know. Recognized by guitar riffs with distortion, heavy metal in the early days often had long riffs, influenced by blue music. The first heavy metal band was Black Sabbath, which became an endless inspiration for New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM). In the trio of dinosaurs with Led zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Saturday seems to be the most heavy metal, while Led zeppelin, although it also contributes more to Blue Rock than heavy metal, and Deep Purple weighs heavily on Hard Rock. The legendary album trio Led Ceppelin IV, Paranoid and Machine Head are, of course, unknown. Despite its short existence, NWOBHM has made an important mark, and Iron Girl still holds pure heavy metal. Probably quite close and familiar. When it comes to the names of Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, what would you imagine? Those who think they know themselves will also have a lot of difficulties with this issue. What do this big four thrash have in common? What's the name of thrash metal? How is it different from what they call heavy metal? Since the founding of Heavy Metal thrash bands build their own way of playing, the most noticeable feature is the rhythm guitar. Guitarists of this genre struggle with very clear riffs, the guitar background is very thick, with characteristic for him, both with and without vocals. There are many songs the bands use this guitar background as an intro (only guitar, no drums, no singing). This way of playing guitar made Thrach the hardest music since her birth. It should be noted here that it is heavy, both in the way of struggle and in the way the piano is located. In addition, drums were also often played much more intensely than heavy metal bands in the late 70's, using popular bass legs. This is the first music to avoid the traditional heavy sound, which can also be considered a revolution (imagine what rock music would be like if people continued to play Heavy Metal forever). Power Metal was supposed to be the most recognizable music, the most typical, still you can easily take it for Doom or gothic, or even progressive. Obviously, Power has some very recognizable characteristics that tend to be extremely fast weathering. Drums play 2 bass legs at a high tempo, so the overall feeling is that the power of the music is very overwhelming. Power music often has a beautiful background, beautiful words are so easy to hear, easy to like. Solos are usually available in several styles: double guitar, or guitar 1 solo, followed by guitar 2, then guitar 1, guitar 2 (usually Helloween, influenced by Judas Priest); or keyboard solo with guitar (Stratovarius style). The power of the vocal line is usually very high, usually soprano (both male and female, if any). The content of Power music is mainly related to the epic, the legend, ... So catch the Dragon, Sword, Warrior,... it's not very strange. Although played very quickly, but because of the pure music, the high bar, less intense and angry, it is not as hard as Thrash. It should be said in the authorities that the more often, the rarer the riff of the proposal. Groups that play music sometimes stick to the same harmony and make a background for vocals. They put the whole artistic quintion into the melody and solo. The riff - which is typical of Metal - was not properly evaluated, so it is easy to confuse us between power bands. There are many groups that always take the pace of 200 as standard (the pace of 200 is understandably 200 beats per minute). To be easy to imagine, I can, like the final countdown, that unlimited covers, the pace is about 130 - 140. Progressive is still praised and flattered as the most scientific metal genre. What truth is called Progressive? I read an article about my favorite Rhapsody playing Progressive??? And they immediately testified about the power of Dragonflame (2002). It's hard to argue with them because they have their own right, but it's clear that the pro in this disc is just a little drummed upside down and the guitar sniffs the left ear a bit. That's all. But the final conclusion is that there is a pro substance and I also admit it. Progressive, his most recognizable thing, signature time (TS). The term is a sign if I am, for example: 2/4, 4/4, 6/8, ... but it is really difficult to translate into Vietnamese (you can not name beat, because if so, beat, the rhythm is translated, the rhythm is not). Anyway, we're still Call it beat 2/4, 3/4... Bad habit. The constant change of TS throughout the song is the main factor that makes progressive music (if you go deeper, it's a change in every musical frame). Pro verse can start with 4/4, play all 4 3/4 shapes and then finish with 7/8 frame. Then all sorts of strange things began to appear in the world: 5/6, 9/10, 11/16, 15/32, 17/64, even 98/99,.... Imagining that it is not easy for a person to listen to popular music. Because of this, Pro music is often difficult to listen to; and play many times harder, because musicians, if the level is not in a terrible line, it is impossible to follow the constant change of rhythm and rhythm like this, as well as at high speed. And then there's the coordination between five or six people. It's awful to just say it! Pro music is also very free, the texture of the song often goes beyond traditional music; notions of choir, brigids, intro, outtro become relative, as well as the duration of the song. It's not hard to see a 00:12 song, and soon it's 18:56,..... And singers are more unnecessary than ever. There's no denying that pro singers like high-end and their vocals are sometimes as good as Freddie Mercury's, but it's clear that whether or not they exist in a band is no longer a decisive thought. The dream theatre itself was once focused on a group specializing in instrumental play. As for the content of Pro Music, I probably won't represent it because it's so diverse and there's no general thought. Most progressive groups try to create content that is confusing, profound, and requires listeners to sit and analyze very carefully, on all aspects of life. This music always requires a lot of patience to be able to understand thoroughly. Here I would like to talk about a problem where people are sometimes very confused. Especially in an article collected from rockvn.com. This is the concept of progressive music and the concept of a concept album. In this article, the author dropped all the concept albums he found in progressive music. It is true that progressive albums are often written in conceptual form, that doesn't mean that all the concepts of the album are progressive. For the most pronounced image of Progressive, the most mentioned name is Dream Theater. Some bands to listen to: Symphony X, Evergray, Pain of Salvation, Threshold..... Gothic Metal (Got), the same line of the late 70s, people with ideologies against Punker. While punk often expresses rebellion and revealing defeat, Gothic goes backwards, often expressing an upside-down style. A characteristic of Gothic is that there are always synths, or at least the sound of the guitar effect. And by the early 90's the appearance of the violin in Goth was no stranger, and gradually occupied the mainstream. Guitar solos in gothic are less gradual, and instead make the background for solo violins. Indeed, I do not know how to express Gothic music, because its greatest characteristics are electronic instruments and violins. The combination of delay, chorus, reverb, flank can produce a mixed sound that we can encounter in Goth. Gothic vocals are popular as sopies. Doom Metal is also a genre shaped with the opposite of death, black. While the musicians of death try to play as fast as possible, Doom plays as slowly as possible. Doom still carries heavy metal riffs, but the synth also exists parallel and sometimes snips in dreary music. Until now Doom are becoming more and more like Gothic using violins and two teni men and soothoth medusals. It is not uncommon for Paradise Lost to be known as a band that laid the foundations for a sub-family called Doom/Death, but had some influence on the Gothic. One way to distinguish gothic from doom: When you hear gothic, you'll feel lost in a troubled country of scenery, in front of all the misty fog, in the air, and Doom gives you a feeling of earth full of mourning, death, even without signs of blood or head. Concepts such as symphonic, classical, industrial, .... It doesn't make sense to define the genre as many people think. It's just prees that add character to the genre. For example, when it comes to Symphonic Metal, you can only understand that this band is playing with an extra element not knowing if the band is playing fast or slow, playing Death or playing Nu. Death, Black Metal should not be distinguished, because in the gameplay of these two lines there is absolutely no clear difference.
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