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3. Classical

Classical music is a complex form of music as it requires high musical skills, like learning the ragas and ability to coordinate with other musicians. One has to maintain the complex relationship between its emotional flows. If you wish to learn this music, then you have to go through proper training.

4. Rock

Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music. The sound of rock often revolves around the guitar back beat laid down by a rhythm section of electric bass guitar, drums, and keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or, since the 1970s, synthesizers. Along with the guitar or keyboards, saxophone and blues-style harmonica are sometimes used as soloing instruments. In its purest form, it has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody. Certain rock groups also use piano, synthesizer, saxophone, flute, mandolin and sitar for a deeper effect. This type of music has several sub genres, such as hard rock, progressive rock and metal rock. All these types of rock music are popular till date. 19

5. Pop

Pop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock n roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often oriented towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs. While these basic elements of the genre 19 http:www.buzzle.comeditorials5-14-2002-18440.asp. accessed on 14 th of January 2010 10 have remained fairly constant, pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, particularly borrowing from the development of rock music, and utilizing key technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes. 20

6. Reggae

Reggae fused elements of North American and African Jamaican music to form a kind of “acculturated rock” popular in England in the 1960s and in the united states a decade later. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981, a leading Jamaican reggae performer, became very well known and highly revered in North American. Reggae comes in several styles, all roughly related to rhythm and blues. Although reggae’s African polyrhythms are more complex, the bass lines stronger, and tempos more relaxed than those of rb. reggae combos consist of electric guitars, electric organ, electric bass guitar, and drums. 21

7. Punk