___ 40,000 Years of Music Explained in 8 Minutes___ Rock explained with 2 Performances

40,000 Years of Music Explained in 8 Minutes 
Michael Spitzer 

Most musicians have pieced together most of 

what's here but in bits and pieces over the years. 

It is fascinating to get the big picture. 

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ROCK MUSIC EXPLAINED WITH 2 RECORDINGS

Talking about where a genre of music starts from goes to infinity. I picked 2 artists. Hank Williams and Muddy Waters.                                      

Elvis and others created their Rock-a-Billy/R&R from two sources Hank Williams and his imitators and listening to Country Blues artist outside of clubs that were only frequented by black clientele. Hank gave us the more European melodic approach to Rock.

Across the metaphoric tracks in the black community were guys like Chuck Berry. He would hear gospel music in church that had some of it's core melodic roots from white churches even during slavery . He also was aware of the new electric blues played in the Chicago bars. In fact he was signed to the record label that Muddy was signed to. Muddy gave us the high energy and the way we use the electric guitar. Muddy himself played a Tele. Muddy was a Country Blues player from the South that moved to Chicago where he could find work and literally only went electric to be heard over the noise in the bars. The style was invented out of the need to make small cheap 50's amps played dimed just to be heard. Straight Country Blues styles with a lot of flat picking needed simplifying but then expanding on what worked by doing that.

the fine print

In researching early country blues I noticed that most players 

kept a continuous rhythm on the low open E and sometimes on the A 

They then added other chords or notes sometimes using bottle neck 

slide. It occurred to me they had invented 'chugging' long before it 

became a high gain Metal thing.