Musc 200 1st Edition Lecture 20 Outline of Last Lecture I Covers II New Styles promoted by mainstream industry to distract from rock and roll a Calypso b Early Folk Music Revival c Teen Idols i Annette Funicello III Meanings of Rock and Roll a Sexuality b Politcally c Aesthetically Outline of Current Lecture II Early 60s Rock a Surf rock b Girl groups III Surf Rock a 4 important things b Sound i Whammy bar ii Rhythm Current Lecture Early 60s Rock Transitional period rock and roll was seen as a fifties term and now was rock Most 1st generation rock and rollers had changed their style lost their audience or died o Early rock and roll was dying out by the early 60s New styles surfaced in the early 60s o Surf Rock o Girl Groups Surf Rock Most were instrumental groups These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Instrumental music hadn t charted on major charts since the Big Bands Textbook says surf rock turned rock and roll into white middle class entertainment o Most songs about surfing love cars and women But surf rock was tied to many important changes Many people think of the Beach Boys when they hear surf rock but that band was not representative of surf rock as a whole Surf rock was music created for and by surfing subcultures o Regional variant of garage rock o Most groups from southern California 4 important things about surf rock o Emphasized band arrangement and virtuoso guitar solos linking Chuck Berry and the late 60s guitar heroes o Tons of creativity like with doo wop o Showed that there s not just a few musical geniuses who come around every now and then Associated with the surfing subculture that developed in the early 60s as a reaction against the mainstream Viewed working at a regular job as an enabler for surfing Surfers were not hippies o Both rejected the mainstream and went back to nature to find more meaning in life Surf Rock was about guitar virtuoso solos but about using simple and straightforward techniques Led to guitar heroes Led to punk style anti virtuoso Surf Rock Sound o o Standard rock instrumentation 2 guitars bass drums sometimes a keyboard or a saxophone Few had vocalists Guitars used lead pickup whammy bar and lots of reverb o Contrast between hooky melodies and virtuoso solos Rhythmic foundation Early 60s groove slight variation of drum pattern of 50s rock and roll 50s had strong backbeats on 2nd and fourth Early 60s had strong snare drum accent at 3 places in a measure 2 the and of 2 4 one and two and three and four and and moments between 2 beats o Became the iconic surf rock and early 60s sound o 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 If you hear this rhythm you think of the early 60s The Ventures were a surf rock band from Seattle that was one of the defining groups of the surf rock sound o Instrumental group Listening Walk Don t Run by the Ventures 1st big hit didn t write it original version was by Johnny Smith and was a 50s jazz tune Next version was by Chet Atkins and was in the country jazz style this was the version the Ventures knew Electric guitar uses bright lead pickups o Single coil pickups Whammy bar increases or decreases the tension on the strings to raise or lower the pitch o Essential for surf rock o Bending the strings and using the slide guitar method are both limited when compared to using a whammy bar o Whammy bar provides a much broader range of pitches and bends o Adds vibrato and gives the guitar a fluid vocal like effect o Almost all of the sustained pitches in this song have vibrato from the whammy bar Whammy bar double stops and stop time breaks Bridge virtuosic use of whammy bar o Not just a trick takes a lot of practice and technique to control Rhythm guitar hammering on chords o Simple and aggressive manner is another predecessor to punk This is the first track we ve heard in this class that is in the minor key o Minor key has a different pattern of whole and half steps than the major key o Gives a darker more serious and sad sound o Surf rock brought those sounds into the rock sound which ended up being very influential