Why is it no one today knows the difference between Rock & Roll and other Rock/Pop/Folk songs?
Rock and Roll consists of a quick played Blues progression, usually in 12 bars or 3 chords played as 4-2-2-1-1-1-1. meaning each chord is repeated as in A-A-A-A-D-D-A-A-E-D-A-E while Rock grew out of this.
cuz they’re dumb
Because they’re idiots who want to reckon they listen to rock but they listen to pop.
Because they probably don’t in fact play an instrument.
I don’t reckon it matters, don’t reckon too much of it.
Anyone who does reckon too much of it, needs to get a life.
Like Billy Joel said “It’s still Rock and Roll to me”.
because they all listen to disney or fall out boy and reckon they know everything about composition
Probably because most people don’t know what real rock is these days. Awesome avatar by the way, Space Ghost is awesome!
I know man.. I know.
Because that’s not a universally accepted truth. That may be what some composition critics or experts chose on and told everyone, but I garuntee you most people who play the best rock ‘n’ roll neither know or care about that kind of thing. Hell, a lot of them can’t even read composition.
Personally I reckon putting that kind of super structured classification on it is silly and doesn’t supply any real purpose, if it sounds like rock ‘n’ roll it’s rock ‘n’ roll to me, let the experts say what they will.