Classical Music vs. Rock Music

Classical Music vs. Rock Music As I grew up my dad had some rules that everyone that wanted to live in the house had to follow. One of those rules was that every individual growing in the house had to learn how to play an instrument. When I was growing up, I loved to listen to rock music and used to imagine myself playing the guitar so I told my dad I wanted to play the guitar and he enrolled me in a classical guitar class. Let me tell you something I had to learn the hard way, classical music and rock music, not the same thing. I studied classical guitar for around nine years and I loved it. I learned about music, history, compositors, and many more interesting things, but anything got me more into classical music than the mood of every song. The compositor of the song had to somehow create a melody that expressed a feeling; sadness, happiness, etc., without having to create lyrics for that song. In rock the mood of the song exists too. The only thing is that instead of expressing through melody they express through the lyrics that they adapt to a melody. Another big difference between rock and classical music is the people it reaches. Rock is a very common type of music and it is still in the life of almost every individual in our society. You can hear it at any time and almost anywhere. In the other hand classical music is very limited and it is not as usual as rock. The people that usually listen classical music, listens to it for one of two reasons; they study or studied it or they use it as a relaxation method. Also, both of this music styles had a huge difference, the complexity of each of the musical pieces. It is common knowledge that rock is way easier to listen to. Rock songs, the popular ones, and even some of the ones that aren't popular, tend to be simple, with singable lyrics, and words that mean something to a lot of people. In the other hand classical music tends to be a style that is not simple and requires the audience to analyze the