{"id":930,"date":"2024-03-06T23:25:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2024-03-06T23:25:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:25:23","slug":"grand-unified-theory-of-heaviness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Grand Unified Theory of Heaviness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Makes Heavy Metal Heavy?\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b0mo17wLB4Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Short answer &#8212; tritones and distortion<\/p>\n<p>Longer answer &#8212; many opinions within the heavy metal community<\/p>\n<p>The Unholy Trinity of Protometal &#8212; Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple (though nowadays people consider Led Zeppelin to be &#8220;classic rock&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Heavy Metal music was written during the 60s to late 70s &#8212; &#8220;Much of the development after that, while being both heavy and metal, isn&#8217;t considered Heavy Metal&#8221; by musicians in the genre. Taxonomy!<\/p>\n<p>Riff based featuring tritones, half steps, flat 9s, flat 6s, &#8220;and other dissonant and atonal gestures&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good riffs can sound heavy even if you play them acoustic&#8221; &#8212; not just a matter of tuning everything down. But, &#8220;though dissonance is the seed of heaviness, it&#8217;s not the whole story&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is an especially good episode, I hope to come back to it and take more notes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short answer &#8212; tritones and distortion Longer answer &#8212; many opinions within the heavy metal community The Unholy Trinity of Protometal &#8212; Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple (though nowadays people consider Led Zeppelin to be &#8220;classic rock&#8221;) Heavy Metal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=930\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-education","category-you-tube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}