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> “Rock bands often deliberately introduce roughness and dissonance into their sounds, much to the delight of their audiences”, she says. From reading this, yo
by dietrichepp 14y ago
> “Rock bands often deliberately introduce roughness and dissonance into their sounds, much to the delight of their audiences”, she says.
From reading this, you might think that this trick was invented in the mid-20th century.
- microtherion 14y agoBesides, rock tends to be harmonically quite conservative, compared to classical music and jazz. The reason something like the intro to Jimi Hendrix' "Purple Haze" stands out is that tritones are very much the exception rather the rule in rock.