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What is the classification of music?

1. world music

world music is a vocabulary from a western perspective, which means music of non-English, American and Western folk songs/pop songs, usually referring to traditional music in developing or backward regions, such as music in Africa and South Asia, and music in some regions, such as Latin America, can be popularized into its own type.

2. new age

new age is a kind of quiet, comfortable and leisurely music. Pure music works account for a large proportion, while singing accounts for less. New age can be purely acoustic (that is, played with traditional spontaneous acoustic instruments) or very electronic. The key point is to create a calm atmosphere of nature or a feeling of the vastness of the universe, washing the listener's mind and making people calm.

3. acappella

acappella refers to songs that are not accompanied by musical instruments, but all songs that are sung purely by human voices are acappella, but today we say acappella usually refers to the kind of singing with multiple voices, and even the instrumental accompaniment is sung by human voices. The opposite of acappella is instrumental, that is, pure music, and any type of song can be sung in the form of acappella.

4. dub

dub can be said to be reggae (reggae, also known as reggae, a kind of South American black music with a strong beat and a special singing style). However, the application of dub in electronic music is to extract some songs, aggravate bass and drums, and add a lot of echo (echo) and other effects. This technology often remix songs when performing live.

5. drum'

For some people, the music of drum'n'bass may be annoying, because drum'n'bass pays great attention to playing tricks on the rhythm, as well as the performance of bass, such as fast and complicated broken beats, and the use of various electronic drums or drums sampled. Therefore, drum'n'bass is also a kind of breakbeat, and 4hero is a famous orchestra of drum'n'bass.

Extended information

Whipping the metal

Whipping the metal is also extremely fast, with a fairly fast repetitive beat (riff). The rough timbre of the electric guitar brushes out wild chords, and it is extremely destructive and oppressive to step on the double drums quickly. The lead singer's rough and roaring vocals and the fast rhythm of the electric guitar quickly sing a few melody-free tunes. "Whipping Metal" is the most representative of the heavy metal band from the San Francisco Bay Area.

representative bands: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax:Death Angel, Testament, Exodus, Destruction, Kreator, Coroner, Overkill.