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Old 12-18-2008, 01:44 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Let me put in two cents and see what y'all think. I thought that mettal bands typically used a faster paced music where the electric gitar was more in the forefornt of the music where as in rock the electric gitars are more simply a member of the band rather than the dominant member. The music tends to disapear into the gitars. In rock the instruments tend to be more of equal members of the band.
Nope. Guitar is often the dominant instrument in both. Listen to Chuck Berry, Dick Dale or Jimi Hendrix and you can hear just how dominant the guitar can be in rock.
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