Pop Music Chapter 25 Study Guide

Reverse Echo

A production technique in which a recorded echo is played backwards, and the reverse echo is placed before the sound it is supposed to be echoing

Power Chord

A chord played on the guitar that consists of only a perfect fifth and octave.

Heavy Metal

A genre of rock music that arose in the late 1960s that combines the heavy bass and drum parts and riff-based structures of hard rock with lyrical themes that tend to focus on dark, sinister topics such as the occult, death, and witchcraft

Identify which of the following best represents the formal structure that Led Zeppelin codified that would became the norm for rock bands from the 1970s to the present day.

AABA structure, wherein each A contains a verse and a chorus and the B contains the instrumental interlude.

Black Sabbath

According to Lesson 25, this band is widely regarded as the most important band in the development of heavy metal.

According to Lesson 25 The first heavy metal album was released in 1970 by which group?

Black Sabbath

According to Lesson 25 many critics consider this band's 1968 cover of "Summertime Blues" to be the first heavy metal recording ever made.

Blue Cheer

Steppenwolf

Early American Hard Rock band who did more to fuse the emerging hard rock scene of the 1960s with motorcycle counterculture than any other band.

Recorder

End-blown wooden instrument popular during the Renaissance period that was also used by Led Zeppelin on the song "Stairway to Heaven"

One of the most defining features of hard rock is its emphasis on a power chords.

False

The "heavy metal" in "Born to be Wild" is referring to a style of music.

False

Explain how Heavy Metal and Hard Rock are different.

Hard rock had a heavier sound but its song subjects and themes were around topics like drugs and love and etc... Heavy Metal was focused on evoking imagery of evil or the occult but their songs were often not about evil topics.

Jimmy page

He claimed to have invented the Reverse Echo.

According to Lesson 25, this song is regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the greatest rock songs ever written.

Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven

Album-Oriented Rock

Music that was conceived to be heard in the context of an entire album, not as an isolated single.

Stadium Rock

Music, concert series, or tours that are suited to be performed in large arena venues.

Alice Cooper

The Godfather of Shock Rock

Tri-Tone

The interval of an augmented fourth or a diminished (or flatted) fifth (for example, the distance between C and F-sharp) that has been used throughout music history to evoke the sinister.

Iron Butterfly

This band was an important predecessor of hard rock. They were a psychedelic band that had formed in San Francisco during the 1960s who focused on the darker side of psychedelia, and most of their music is heavy and dense.

Listen to the following example and identify the band who is performing it and the title of the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXFsWAkLoXQ

Title: School's Out For Summer Artist: Alice Cooper

Listen to the following example and identify the band who is performing it and the title of the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQmmM_qwG4k

Title: Whole Lotta Love Artist: Led Zeppelin

What 3 styles did the members of Led Zeppelin want to combine in order to create their early style?

electric blues, Folk Music, and Acoustic Music

Explain how Heavy Metal and Hard Rock are similar.

they both rely on a heavy usage of distortion and heavier sounds, like louder and lower drums and both being riff based.