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Folk rock and Twelve-string guitar

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Difference between Folk rock and Twelve-string guitar

Folk rock vs. Twelve-string guitar

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s. The 12-string guitar is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar.

Similarities between Folk rock and Twelve-string guitar

Folk rock and Twelve-string guitar have 28 things in common (in Unionpedia): Acoustic guitar, Blues, Electric guitar, Elvis Presley, Folk music, Gene Clark, George Harrison, Gordon Lightfoot, Hard rock, Heavy metal music, Jangle pop, Lead Belly, Minor chord, Paul Simon, Pete Seeger, Progressive rock, R.E.M., Rickenbacker, Rock music, Roger McGuinn, The Animals, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Searchers (band), The Seekers, The Smiths, The Weavers.

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar).

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Gene Clark

Harold Eugene "Gene" Clark (November 17, 1944 – May 24, 1991) was an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk rock band the Byrds.

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George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music.

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Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Jangle pop

Jangle pop is a subgenre of pop rock that emphasizes trebly, ringing guitars (usually 12-string electrics) and 1960s-style pop melodies.

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Lead Belly

Huddie William Ledbetter (January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949) was an American folk and blues musician notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced.

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Minor chord

In music theory, a minor chord is a chord having a root, a minor third, and a perfect fifth.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe.

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Rickenbacker

Rickenbacker International Corporation is an electric string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Roger McGuinn

James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942), known professionally as Roger McGuinn and previously as Jim McGuinn, is an American musician.

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The Animals

The Animals are an English rhythm and blues and rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Byrds

The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964.

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The Searchers (band)

The Searchers are an English beat group, which emerged as part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene along with the Beatles, the Hollies, the Fourmost, the Merseybeats, the Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry and the Pacemakers.

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The Seekers

The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962.

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The Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.

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The Weavers

The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City.

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Folk rock and Twelve-string guitar Comparison

Folk rock has 487 relations, while Twelve-string guitar has 198. As they have in common 28, the Jaccard index is 4.09% = 28 / (487 + 198).

References

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