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Category:	Music
Created:	Jul 20, 2006
Type:	Public
Members:	258
Owner:	janine bobonika
Language:	English
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Punk bands often emulate the approach of sixties garage rock bands. Punk rock emphasizes simple musical structures and arrangements. The early English punk fanzine Sideburns in 1976 famously included drawings of three chord shapes captioned, "This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. Now form a band". Most punk songs have a verse-chorus structure and 4/4 time. Short songs are also a staple of punk rock. Songs are normally about two and a half minutes in length, but sometimes are less than thirty seconds. Punk rock usually has fast tempos, in comparison to the rock bands who came before them.

Typical punk instrumentation includes a drum kit, one or two electric guitars, an electric bass, and vocals. The drums typically sound heavy and dry, and are usually a minimal set-up, usually a four-piece kit (snare drum, one mounted or standing tom, one floor tom and one bass drum), and a lesser amount of cymbals, usually a simple set-up of hi-hats, one or two crashes and a ride cymbal. The drum beats are usually very simplistic, playing basic quarter note grooves with not very technical bass drum or snare drum patterns (however in h****** punk the drumming is considerably faster and quite technical, but the same drum set-up is featured). Bass lines usually consist of no more than the root notes of the chord being played by the guitarist(s). The guitar parts are made up of highly distorted power chords similar to Link Wray, though some bands, take a surf rock approach, with lighter, "twangier" guitar tones. Punk vocals often sound nasal and are more often "spoken" rather than "sung" in a conventional sense. Production is minimalistic, with tracks sometimes laid down on tape recorders in garages. More often than not, the band themselves produce, record, and distribute the album.

In the mid-1970s, punk lyrics introduced a confrontational frankness of expression and social and political relevance that had been missing from contemporary music. Songs like The Clash's "Career Opportunities" and "London's Burning" dealt with unemployment, boredom, and other grim realities of urban life; some were openly disparaging of governments and monarchies, as in The S**Pistols' "God Save the Queen" and "Anarchy in the UK"; and still others were decidedly anti-romantic in depictions of s** and love, such as The Voidoids' "Love Comes in Spurts".