13 Facts About Hard rock

Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, and drums, sometimes accompanied with keyboards.

Some earliest hard rock music was produced by the Kinks, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music.

Roots of hard rock can be traced back to the mid to late 1950s, particularly electric blues, which laid the foundations for key elements such as a rough declamatory vocal style, heavy guitar riffs, string-bending blues-scale guitar solos, strong beat, thick riff-laden texture, and posturing performances.

Soft Hard rock was often derived from folk Hard rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody and harmonies.

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In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from blues rock and was played louder and with more intensity.

Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic Hard rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and Hard rock and roll.

The Beatles began producing songs in the new hard rock style beginning with their 1968 double album The Beatles and, with the track "Helter Skelter", attempted to create a greater level of noise than the Who.

All three of these bands have been seen as pivotal in the development of heavy metal, but where metal further accentuated the intensity of the music, with bands like Judas Priest following Sabbath's lead into territory that was often "darker and more menacing", hard rock tended to continue to remain the more exuberant, good-time music.

However, new Hard rock acts continued to emerge and record sales remained high into the 1980s.

Hard rock popularised a guitar-playing technique of two-handed hammer-ons and pull-offs called tapping, showcased on the song "Eruption" from the album Van Halen, which was highly influential in re-establishing hard rock as a popular genre after the punk and disco explosion, while redefining and elevating the role of electric guitar.

Hard rock entered the 1990s as one of the dominant forms of commercial music.

Acts with more conventional hard rock sounds included Andrew W K, Beautiful Creatures and Buckcherry, whose breakthrough album 15 went platinum and spawned the single "Sorry".