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AOS2 - Popular Music - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Urban pop, R&B, urban adult contemporary, teen pop boy bands, girl bands britpop
        
        Artists include Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Lady Gaga
    - - Jungle, drum n bass, house, ambient, trance, garage, techno
        
        Todd Terry, Carl Cox, Daft Punk
      - Techno
        
        Few or no vocals
        
        Little/no chord movement
        
        Fast, hard beat, usually 130 - 150 bpm
        
        Sounds mechanical and electronic
      - Jungle
        
        Drum based
        
        Short fast notes called break beats play between the main beats which sounds militaristic
        
        Fast tempo, usually around 170 bpm
        
        Later known as drum & bass
      - House
        
        Off beat hi-hat patterns
        
        Looped samples
        
        Lots of drum machine sounds
        
        Synthesizer riffs
        
        Very repetitive bass line
        
        Vocal samples occasionally
        
        Around 120 bpm
      - Garage
        
        Deep synthesized bass lines
        
        Beatboxing
        
        Around 120 bpm
        
        Reverb / vocoder
      - Trance
        
        Electronic sounds and lots of effects
        
        Layers build up gradually
        
        Very repetitive
        
        Around 120 - 150 bpm
        
        Slow chord changes over a fast beat
        
        Meant to make you feel like you're in a trance
      - Ambient
        
        Produces a relaxing effect
        
        Very repetitive percussion giving a hypnotic feel
        
        Often atonal
        
        Slow, sometimes jazzy
    - - Alternative rock, alternative metal, grunge, post grunge, indie rock. ska punk, pop punk, heavy metal, hard rock
        
        Artists include The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, AC/DC
      - Grunge
        
        Similar lyrical concerns to punk however often darker topics
        
        Much slower and more distorted than punk rock
        
        Fuses elements of punk rock and heavy metal, like the distorted electric guitar
    - - Country pop, alt-country, bro-country
        
        Johnny Cash, Carrie Underwood, George Strait
      - Uses simple melodies derived from American folk music
      - Uses electronic rock band instruments combined with the fiddle, banjo and steel guitar
      - Lyrics tell a sentimental story which is partly spoken
    - - Gangsta rap, grime
        
        Kanye West, Eminem, Jay Z
        
        Features lyrics about crime and gang life
      - Focusses on rhythm
      - Uses rapping, samples, programmed beats and DJing
      - Often accompanies a gymnastic style of dance with head and back spinning