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Tastes are different just as people are. Judging the taste for music of the people around us is useless because they all differ. Hearing has many perceptive values. We can hear a step, a kiss on the cheek, a piano note, etc.

To understand other people’s taste in music means understanding those people and it means devotion towards the music in general. What does music mean? Well, we could define it as a symmetrical arrangement of interdependent sounds. From here to determining to which gender a particular song belongs to, is not a long way.

Romanians like to listen to all kinds of music. There are many influences in Romanian music, as there are all over the world. Romanians produce music, and they listen to it. Like any other art, Romanian popular music has many fans.

There are all types of disputes for tastes, as in any art so it does not really matter who says what about the genders. Culturally speaking, Romania has built its values in time and nowadays, depending on the values of each individual, there are different types of music they listen to. However, there is one particular gender, which can be categorized as Romanian popular music and that is folk music.

As any country with a rich and traditions full past, folk Romanian music seems to be the most colourful and pleasant music to the ears all over the world. They have all kind of typical genders like the “hora”, and many others very “tasted” genders. People who have visited Romania or have had contact with the music that Romanians listen to, especially folk music, have a good opinion about it.

Popular Romanian music means in the first place, traditional music. There is nobody, who was born and lived there with the traditions, who do not appreciate a good “doina” and the love lyrics in it. This is how Romanians think, this is what Romanians feel and that is how they have been raised. No matter what other taste in music a Romanian person has, they all enjoy the traditional music.

Therefore, if there is a place, where more people gather and most of them are Romanians with different tastes in music, there is one particular gender, which will absolutely unite and make them feel good, and that is the folk Romanian music.

That is considered popular music, no matter where Romanians are found. Many of them work abroad, and they have adjusted to the environment they live in, and also they raise their children with the traditions of the place they adjusted to. Nevertheless, that is not a reason not to teach their young the values of the Romanian folk music.

So, no matter where Romanians are, popular music is considered to be the music that each individual or group likes. Americans have their country music, the jeans, the rock and roll, the hot dogs, etc. It is very easy to deduce the influences, which now help genders develop. People will always sing rock and roll and country music as well as listen to it in the United States, as the traditional Romanian folk music will be listened and sung in Romania.

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Pop music is a genre of popular music distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music . The term indicates specific stylistic traits, but the genre also includes artists working in many styles such as rock, hip hop, rhythm and blues (R&B), and country, making it a flexible category. The expression “pop music” may also be used to refer to particular subgenres (within the pop music genre) that are in some cases referred to as soft rock and pop/rock.

Characteristics as a subgenre
Pop “is designed to appeal to everyone” and “doesn’t come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste.” In musical terms, it is essentially “conservative” in that it attempts to resonate with a large segment of its target demographic rather than pushing artistic boundaries. It is “provided from on high (by record companies, radio programmers and concert promoters) rather than being made from below…” (Frith 2001, p.95-96). But over time, pop has gone from “popular in general” to “a genre” described as sounding musically similar to rap, but with singing. This is due to radio stations labeling themselves as “pop stations” taking heavy preference over certain sounds, tossing other popular bands who don’t fit into the sound or other categories like rock into the “alternative” label.

Often used to describe the current popular genres of music of any given time, the term “pop” cannot be used describe any one particular style.

History of pop music

1930s and 1940s
Styles influencing the later development of pop include the Blues (Chicago), and Country (Tennessee)

1950s
Early Pop music artists include Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, and Peggy Lee, but other artists like Bill Haley and his Comets, Fats Domino and Elvis Presley become popular with the younger generation.

1960s
The decade starts out with such Teen Idols such as, Johnny Tillotson, Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, Tommy Roe, Gene Pitney, and Frankie Avalon. It explodes midway with Carole King, Neil Diamond, Burt Bacharach, Aretha Franklin, Isley Brothers, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, and Simon and Garfunkel. It can be said that The Beatles led the British Invasion in this decade.

1970s
A proliferation of new sounds from the disco of the BeeGees, the piano sounds of Billy Joel and Elton John, the country of the Eagles, the rock-influenced pop of artists like Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, and Fleetwood Mac. ABBA was a swedish band who grew to fame after winning Eurovision Song Contest and starting a whole new revolution of pop music.
1980s
Notable highlights for pop music in the 1980s are Michael Jackson’s second Epic label release, Thriller, which went on to become the best-selling album of all time, and Madonna albums “Like a Virgin”, “True Blue”, “Like a Prayer” . Michael Jackson was sometimes referred to as “The King of Pop” and Madonna was named “The Queen of Pop”. Other artists included Michael Bolton, Prince, Janet Jackson, Duran Duran, The Police, ABBA, Cyndi Lauper, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, Kylie Minogue and Culture Club.

1990s and 21st century
The 1990s and 21st century were marked by a resurgence of boy band and girl group trends. From the UK came the likes of Take That, Blue, the Spice Girls, a highly successful formula. Irish boy bands of the time include Boyzone and Westlife. The US had New Edition, New Kids On The Block followed by the Backstreet Boys, Hanson, girl trio Destiny’s Child and then ‘N Sync and Pop Princesses Willa Ford, Mandy Moore, Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera. Canadian Avril Lavigne became popular with her album Let Go. Australia had Boys from Oz. 1999 saw the rise of the Latin explosion with Ricky Martin at the forefront with his worldwide smash hit “Livin’ La Vida Loca”. Other latin artists to follow were Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, and Marc Anthony. In 2002, Justin Timberlake had critical and commercial acclaim with his “Justified” album, emerging as the new “Prince of Pop”, Jesse McCartney has emerged from Dream Street as a high-rating singer with songs like She’s No You, Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff has become popular in the 2000s. Artists like Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Kylie Minogue, Celine Dion, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain and Madonna have also been highly successful. Reality television shows, such as American Idol, begin producing multi-platinum artists like Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken. British pop rock groups such as McFly emerge.

Sound and themes
Pop music, in whatever musical influence form it derives from, may be produced by a more basic songwriting approach and arrangement. The emphasis is often on a simpler melody, which makes the songs more memorable, and may use stripped-down rhythms. The combination of the melody and the rhythm allows for harmony to be a driving force of the song. Themes range from personal songs to vivacious party jams. However, the most common theme deals with the wide range of emotions which stem from physical or emotional love.

Music videos and live performances are often used for exposure in the media, and artists may have extravagant stage shows and use choreographed dancing. Many pop tunes are used in both Dance clubs and Sport clubs.

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This kind of inability to get started on blues solos is often a symptom of not having a teacher. Having someone who knows about blues soloing could probably get you started in no time. But if you can’t or do not want to pay a teacher, you will need to find ways of getting out of the box you are confined in. One obvious barrier is the wish to be original. There are plenty of blues solos out there to copy but the new guitar player often feels that he wants to play his own music without relying on somebody else’s material. The truth is everybody starts out copying somebody else. It is the way we learn. You don’t have to sit down and copy complete solos wholesale but if you know the blues scale, you can easily add your own licks to some that you have copied from a CD by on of the blues masters, or even from listening to a friend play.

Blues soloing is a matter of collecting licks and riffs from other guitar players and using them to build guitar solos. As you accumulate more and more experience by putting in more hours practicing, you will find that your own personal style begins to be built up. Remember, you are working with the blues, now. There are no wrong notes.

Don’t be too ambitious technically either. If your comfort zone is the first position, then work within your limits. If you put in the practice, you will stretch your ability naturally without someone having to say, “hey, it’s time you stopped doing that and moved on.”

One way of starting yourself off is to use the method of playing random notes. Get your left hand in pentatonic scale position in whatever key you want to play in, and just play any note. Play them one after the other without thinking. Do some bends and slides, have fun. But once again, if you find yourself imitating other guitar players, just go with it. Trying not to copy others is a mistake when you are learning blues soloing.



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