Almost all music critics divide modern music styles into three main categories: rock, pop and rap. Each of them is divided into many sub-styles.
Popular music
Pop is popular music. An extremely broad term that encompassed many genres and subgenres. It includes such styles as disco (dance music with an abundance of effects, a distinct rhythm section, the addition of wind and string instruments), trance (electronic music with an abundance of cosmic melodies), house (fully electronic music, the only instrument of which is a synthesizer, a characteristic feature are repeating musical phrases), techno (music of a large city, metal sound, cold vocals, a huge number of effects), funk (a dance genre with leading drummers, a beat and low melody). This musical direction is especially popular among domestic musicians.
Rock music
Rock as a genre is rooted in the old, foreign, black blues, which appeared in America in the twenties of the twentieth century. Any blues consists of twelve bars or segments of a composition, each bar consists of several notes, and the emphasis is always on the first. The traditional blues music instrumental set includes bass or double bass, drums, winds, keyboards and necessarily a guitar. Rock grew out of the "guitar" blues, which does not have as many winds and keyboards as traditional.
Rock and roll became the music of youth in the fifties of the twentieth century, it was a simplified variation on the theme of blues. Over time, rock grew out of it, which became an art under the influence of the Beatles.
The Beatles actually became the founders of half of the subgenres of rock.
In fact, rock is a blues, but with a different semantic content. Rock is, first of all, music of the text. There are many subgenres in rock. For example, hard rock is called a style with a heavy, hard sound, the rhythm section takes the leading position in this style, it is in hard rock that you can hear the most interesting, "free" vocals. Pop rock is called soft, rhythmic music with light arrangements, designed for a wide audience. Folk rock is now a popular direction, trying to combine rock and folk music. Psychedelic rock - unconventional, complex music with lots of effects, usually has a serious impact on the audience. Heavy metal - sharp, heavy, inharmonious music, it is very far from the usual standards.
Very often in the modern world there is a mixture of genres, when it is quite difficult to determine exactly what style a particular composition belongs to.
