Guitar Genres

As I mentioned before, the guitar has become the driving force in genres such as classical guitar, blues, country, and rock and roll, and still holds dominance over these types of music genres.

Spanning a history of over four centuries, classical guitar is characterized by its fast finger picking and strumming, proving itself to be one of the most difficult styles of guitar to learn. Professional players often shape their fingernails to achieve desired string tones. Classical guitars have no need for truss rods, due to the low tension of their strings. Famous guitarists include Paco De Lucia and Grisha Goryachev.

Blues guitar originated in the United States in the 1920s, stemming from an overall blues genre that evolved from the communities of former African slaves and their spirituals, praise songs, field hollers, shouts, and chants. Blues guitar usually uses a common pattern, and provided the roots for the evolution of modern rock and roll, jazz, hip hop, pop, and country music. Famous blues guitar artists include Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy.

As I just mentioned, country music evolved from blues music, and also has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and old-time music, and evolved rapidly in the 1920s. Popular country artists include the infamous Elvis Presley and Garth Brooks.

Finally, one of the most well-known genres, rock and roll, evolved from all previous types of guitar-based music, and has a broad range of genres within itself, such as classic rock, pop, punk rock, heavy metal, death metal, alternative rock, and the recent genre of rap-metal. All of these sub genres have even more sub genres within them, making classification of each genre an almost monumental task worthy of being a doctorate thesis topic perhaps!

Guitar genres are constantly changing form and mixing with each other. New genres are being created every day. Often it is the interest in certain genres of music that inspire one to take up the task of learning to the play an instrument, and the guitar is no different. If you aren’t familiar with the structure of these genres, I suggest a trip to a local record store would be in short order.



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