Music Genres

[Sonarch]

So I was thinking about this, and I realized that often, off the top of my head, I can usually only think of a few music genres. I know there are a ton, and just for fun, I want to make this. It'll be a web type thing, and I need you guys to help since i'm bad at genres anyway. And maybe we can all learn something! So I made this little thing to start it, music starting in the middle, branching into electronic and non-electronic music, and then it'll branch from those two. I would have gotten it started farther, but i'm in a bit of a rush and I want to start this before I have to get back to work. How it needs to work is, to suggest a branching, indicate the set it'll branch from and what it leads to. Like, I might say [Electronic Music]--->(House) to suggest that House branch from Electronic music. I'm liable to do things wrong, so if you have a correction, say so and provide evidence/explanation to justify this change. And I don't want arguing. Debating is fine, but if it ruins the topic then you'll need to stop and stuff. To be clear, non-electronic doesn't mean it has to be produced via live recording or anything, like orchestral would be non-electronic and plenty of that is made electronically. Just a little thing I wanted to make for fun. And i'll update the OP with the newest version as it evolves. So, anyone want to start?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ol2seoc4xeb32nb/Genre%20Web.png
v4

[itroitnyah]

Let's see, for electronic you can put:

House
techno
electronic
trance
dubstep
drum and bass
breakcore
glitch
ambient
pop
hardcore
chill
grime
trap
moombahton
chip tune
disco
progressive house
R&B
reggae
hip hop
synth pop

For non electronic, you can put:

orchestral
rock
metal
jazz
the blues
classical
alternative
punk
grunge
folk rock
country
gospel
opera

And some genres that are in the middle:

Rap, although I'm sure there are a few more
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This list here is subject to controversy and I fully expect that there will be quite a few people who will argue over which section genres belong in. Or maybe I'm wrong, but I've been on MLR long enough to know that there might be a large conversation about this, but that I should also expect the unexpected. I am braced and ready for whatever is coming.

[Sonarch]

A ton of stuff

So what branches from what? I already see progressive house and house on there, and wouldn't the former branch from the latter?

[LoreRD]

Adding to "non-electronic" (that I can think of at the moment):

Ragtime
New Wave
Baroque
Reggae

[itroitnyah]

Hm, I guess so. You could put house and progressive house together, and I'm not sure what else. I'm pretty horrible at genres too. Tbh, I just went onto soundcloud and used the explore feature to find genres that were actual genres and not stupid stuff like "turntablism" (which may or may not be an actual separate genre, can't be sure, but I'm assuming it's similar to the situation of dubstep where it's a subcategory of a subcategory like brostep or drugstep or whatever)

[Sonarch]

Alright, so far we have
[Electronic]----->(House)
[Electronic]----->(Techno)
[Electronic]----->(Trance)
[Electronic]----->(Dubstep)
[Electronic]----->(Drum and Bass)
[Electronic]----->(Breakcore)
[Electronic]----->(Glitch)
[Electronic]----->(Ambient)
[Electronic]----->(Pop)
[Electronic]----->(Hardcore)
[Electronic]----->(Chill)
[Electronic]----->(Grime)
[Electronic]----->(Trap)
[Electronic]----->(Moombahton)
[Electronic]----->(Chiptune)
[Electronic]----->(Disco)
[Electronic]----->(Synth Pop)
[Electronic]----->(Hip Hop)
[Electronic]----->(R&B)
[Electronic]----->(Reggae)
[House]----->(Progressive House)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Orchestral)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Rock)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Metal)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Jazz)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Blues)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Classical)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Alternative)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Punk)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Grunge)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Folk Rock)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Country)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Gospel)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Opera)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Ragtime)
[Non-Electronic]----->(New Wave)
[Non-Electronic]----->(Baroque)


and I want to throw in a few myself
[Non-Electronic]----->(Acapella)
[Drum and Bass]----->(Liquid/Melodic Drum and Bass)
[Drum and Bass]----->(Mainstream Drum and Bass)
[Drum and Bass]----->(Neurofunk)
[Electronic]----->(Glitch Hop)
Those Drum and Bass ones I got from Motivfs, and I assume he's accurate since he's a DnB enthusiast or something.

[topitmunkeydog]

dont even try, man. You are going to be on this forever.

Lol, I just thought of this scene from School of Rock:


I'm just gonna start listing things anyway.
Electronic:
Electro-swing

Non electric (you forgot a lot?):
folk
rockabilly
indietronica
wonky pop
krautrock
banghra
britpop
post-britpop
post-rock
shoegaze
Minimalist
Impressionist
Romantic
Classical (from the era)
Baroque
neo-baroque
neo-classical
baroque pop
gregorian chants
skiffle
doo-wop
chanson
j-pop
space rock
anti-folk
make it stop
tango
bluegrass
americana
power banjo
emo
gothic
post-punk
cabaret
oh god make it stop
gothic metal
symphonic metal

OK I am done with this. genres are silly.

[Sonarch]

dont even try, man. You are going to be on this forever.

Lol, I just thought of this scene from School of Rock:


I'm just gonna start listing things anyway.
Electronic:
Electro-swing

Non electric (you forgot a lot?):
folk
rockabilly
indietronica
wonky pop
krautrock
banghra
britpop
post-britpop
post-rock
shoegaze
Minimalist
Impressionist
Romantic
Classical (from the era)
Baroque
neo-baroque
neo-classical
baroque pop
gregorian chants
skiffle
doo-wop
chanson
j-pop
space rock
anti-folk
make it stop
tango
bluegrass
americana
power banjo
emo
gothic
post-punk
cabaret
oh god make it stop
gothic metal
symphonic metal

OK I am done with this. genres are silly.

Again, where do these branch from? I'm trying to say that you need to indicate where everything branches from when you throw stuff out there, cause most of the time I have no idea.

[ghelded_kultz]

Eventually my "Definitely not an Ishkur's Ripoff Guide to Rock Music" will be complete. Until then I will explain rock and its connections as I understand it. (Disclaimer: This may not be entirely accurate, especially the dates and many genres will probably be ignored)
Color guide: Country/Folk Related; Regular, unclassified, I don't care rock; Punk; Metal; Alternative; Non-Rock/blues or country The genres are clickable (STILL BEING IMPLEMENTED) even though they are different colors from a regular hyperlink.

1940-1950s
Blues=>Electric Blues=>Rock and Roll
Rock and Roll+ Country=>Rockabilly
Rock and Roll=>Surf Rock

1960s
Surf Rock=> Surf Pop
Rock+Folk=>Electric Folk/Folk Rock
Rock + Roll=> British Skiffle (Ignore this. I am not sure quite what I was thinking)
Rock and Roll=>British Beat Music
Rock and Roll + Blues=>Blues Rock (Rolling Stones;Eric Clapton etc)
Rock and Roll; Surf Music=>Garage Rock
SkiffleBeat=>British Pop/Rock=>Pop-Rock=>Power Pop
Blues Rock + Drugs=> Psychedelic Rock=>Psychedelic Pop; Psychedelic Folk
Psychedelic Rock; Blues Rock=>Hard Rock=>Heavy Metal (Some would argue it happened the other way around or they aren't related [Metal/Hard Rock Connection])
Garage Rock=>Protopunk (not a very well defined genre)

1970s
Psychedelic Rock + Classical and other stuff=>Progressive Rock=>Krautrock
Hard Rock + Country=>Southern Rock; Country Rock
Hard Rock=>Glam Rock
British Rock=>Pub Rock (Not quite sure about this)
Protopunk + Glam Rock=>Glam Punk
Protopunk=>Art Punk (Both of these came before or as "punk rock" actually started)
Protopunk=>Punk Rock
Art Punk + Pop Rock=>New Wave
Art Punk + Avant Garde=>No Wave
Punk Rock=>Post-Punk (Or punk. Depends who you ask)
Post-Punk=>Gothic Rock
Punk Rock=>Hardcore (Punk)
Heavy Metal=>NWOBHM
NWOBHM + Punk Rock=>Speed Metal
Punk Rock + Pub Rock + Hardcore (Punk)=>Oi! Punk=>Street Punk and Anarcho-Punk (By the Early 80s for both and Anarcho might have some other important precursors/not necessarily from Oi!)
Avante-garde + Protopunk=> Industrial (Either Punk or Not Rock, but important for later)

1980s (Some of these might have started in the 70s)
Speed Metal + Hardcore (Punk)=>Thrash Metal
NWOBHM + Glam Rock=>Glam Metal/Hair Metal
No Wave + Hardcore (Punk)=>Noise Rock (Which has appeared before, but this is what most people are talking about when they say noise rock)
New Wave + Krautrock=>Synthpop (a huge simplification but for the discussion it works)
Country Rock=>Heartland Rock; Roots Rock (Not sure here)
Punk Rock + 60s Pop/Rock + Folk => Jangle Pop
Hardcore (Punk)=>Thrashcore=>Powerviolence
Anarcho-Punk + Thrash Metal=> Crust Punk=>Grindcore
Hardcore (Punk) + Thrash Metal=> Crossover Thrash
Hardcore (Punk)=> Emotional Hardcore (Emocore or First wave of Emo)=>Post-Hardcore (The old Stuff. Might Also Count as Alternative)
Hardcore (Punk)=>Melodic Hardcore
Post-Punk + Disco=> First Wave of Dance Punk
Gothic Rock + New Wave=> Dark Wave
Punk Rock + Country=> Cow Punk
Punk Rock + Rockabilly=> Psychobilly + Gothic Rock=>Gothabilly
College Rock (It's about as real of a genre as Protopunk and stems from punk, but I am not quite sure how)
Progressive Rock + Noise Rock/Post-Hardcore/Post-Punk=>Math Rock
Dark Wave=>Ethereal Wave; Cold Wave;
Ethereal Wave=>Dream Pop
Noise Rock + Pop Rock=>Noise Pop
Industrial + Rock (Mostly Hardcore I think)=> Industrial Rock
Progressive Rock + Heavy Metal=>Progressive Metal
Speed Metal=>Power Metal
Thrash Metal=>Death Metal; First Wave of Black Metal
Punk Rock + Folk=> Folk Punk (Or alternative)
Heavy Metal=>Doom Metal + Hardcore=>Sludge Metal
Doom Metal + Psychedelic Rock=>Stoner Metal
Funk + Rock (I think mostly Hard Rock, but I don't know)=> Funk Rock (Don't know where to put this one)
Rock (Of Various forms?) + Hip Hop=>Rap Rock
Rap Rock + Punk (Mostly hardcore?)=>Rapcore
Rap Rock + Heavy Metal=> Rap Metal
Funk Rock + Heavy Metal=> Funk Metal
Noise Rock + Hardcore + Heavy Metal (Especially Doom and Sludge. Well kind of. Their sister genres and the Melvins basically created both.)=> Grunge

1990s (See note for the 80s)
Noise Pop + Dream Pop=>
Shoegaze
Dream Pop - Effects=>Slowcore
College Rock=>Lo-fi (Really messy genres right here)
Grunge + Popularity + Hard Rock (Not that Grunge didn't have quite a bit of Hard Rock influence already)=>Post-Grunge
Shoegaze/Math Rock/Slowcore=>Post Rock
Rap Metal + Electronic Influences (Hip-Hop and Industrial Metal for the most part)=> Nu Metal
Melodic Hardcore (and regular punk rock) + Power Pop=> Pop Punk
Emotional Hardcore=>Screamo (This might have been in the 2000s. I don't really know?)
Emotional Hardcore + Pop Punk=> Emo (Or unclassifiable)
Industrial Rock + Thrash Metal (And other metal genres)=>Industrial Metal
Alternative Metal (It takes so many influences and is so ill defined that I don't feel like dealing with it right now)
Crossover thrash + Post Hardcore=>Metalcore (Early Metalcore. Later metalcore took lots of death metal influences and removed much of the post-hardcore)
Death Metal + Grindcore=>Deathgrind
First Wave of Black Metal + Norway=>Black Metal=>Post Black Metal
Sludge Metal=>Atmospheric Sludge Metal=>Post Metal
Doom Metal+ Gothic Rock=>Gothic Metal (It may or may not be disputed if gothic rock was actually an important influence on this)
Lo-Fi=>Indie Rock + Folk=> Indie Folk
Indie Rock + Pop rock=> Indie Pop
Death Metal + Doom Metal=> Death/Doom
Punk + Celtic Folk=>Celtic Punk
British Music + Indie Rock=>Britpop=>Post Britpop
Hardcore Punk + Hardcore Techno + Jungle + Other electronic musics=> Digital Hardcore

2000s (see above notes)
Gothic Rock + Piano Rock + Pop=>Dark Cabaret
Blues Rock=>Blues Rock Revival
Metalcore + Death Metal=>Deathcore
Post-Hardcore=>Post Hardcore (2000s edition)
Folk Punk + Eastern European Folk Music=>Gypsy Punk
Various alternative genres=>Post-Punk/New Wave/ Garage Rock Revival
Indie Pop + Classical=> Baroque Pop (Which actually first came into being in the 60s)
Math Rock + Metalcore + Grindcore=>Mathcore


That is a very brief explanation of a couple genres connections. I missed out on a whole lot more than I put in though.

EDIT 1- Hyperlinks for the 1950s and 60s except pop-rock (if someone thinks that a song doesn't fit the genre it is being linked with, please tell me); Minor fixes

EDIT 2- A couple of random song additions because I had them in my head and realized where they could fit

[Sonarch]

Eventually my "Definitely not an Ishkur's Ripoff Guide to Rock Music" will be complete. Until then I will explain rock and its connections as I understand it. (Disclaimer: This may not be entirely accurate, especially the dates and many genres will probably be ignored)
Color guide: Country/Folk Related; Regular, unclassified, I don't care rock; Punk; Metal; Alternative; Non-Rock/blues or country
1940-1950s
Blues=>Electric Blues=>Rock and Roll
Rock and Roll + Country=>Rockabilly
Rock and Roll=>Surf Rock

1960s
Surf Rock=> Surf Pop
Rock+Folk=>Electric Folk/Folk Rock
Rock + Roll=> British Skiffle
Rock and Roll + Blues=>Blues Rock (Rolling Stones)
Rock and Roll; Surf Music=>Garage Rock
Skiffle=>British Pop/Rock=>Pop-Rock=>Power Pop
Blues Rock + Drugs=> Psychedelic Rock=>Psychedelic Pop; Psychedelic Folk
Psychedelic Rock; Blues Rock=>Hard Rock=>Heavy Metal (Some would argue it happened the other way around or they aren't related)
Garage Rock=>Protopunk (not a very well defined genre)

1970s
Psychedelic Rock + Classical and other stuff=>Progressive Rock=>Krautrock
Hard Rock + Country=>Southern Rock; Country Rock
Hard Rock=>Glam Rock
British Rock=>Pub Rock (Not quite sure about this)
Protopunk + Glam Rock=>Glam Punk
Protopunk=>Art Punk (Both of these came before or as "punk rock" actually started)
Protopunk=>Punk Rock
Art Punk + Pop Rock=>New Wave
Art Punk + Avant Garde=>No Wave
Punk Rock=>Post-Punk (Or punk. Depends who you ask)
Post-Punk=>Gothic Rock
Punk Rock=>Hardcore (Punk)
Heavy Metal=>NWOBHM
NWOBHM + Punk Rock=>Speed Metal
Punk Rock + Pub Rock + Hardcore (Punk)=>Oi! Punk=>Street Punk and Anarcho-Punk (By the Early 80s for both and Anarcho might have some other important precursors/not necessarily from Oi!)
Avante-garde + Protopunk=> Industrial (Either Punk or Not Rock, but important for later)

1980s (Some of these might have started in the 70s)
Speed Metal + Hardcore (Punk)=>Thrash Metal
NWOBHM=>Glam Metal/Hair Metal
No Wave + Hardcore (Punk)=>Noise Rock (Which has appeared before, but this is what most people are talking about when they say noise rock)
New Wave + Krautrock=>Synthpop (a huge simplification but for the discussion it works)
Country Rock=>Heartland Rock; Roots Rock (Not sure here)
Punk Rock + 60s Pop/Rock + Folk => Jangle Pop
Hardcore (Punk)=>Thrashcore=>Powerviolence
Anarcho-Punk + Thrash Metal=> Crust Punk=>Grindcore
Hardcore (Punk) + Thrash Metal=> Crossover Thrash
Hardcore (Punk)=> Emotional Hardcore (Emocore or First wave of Emo)=>Post-Hardcore (The old Stuff. Might Also Count as Alternative)
Hardcore (Punk)=>Melodic Hardcore
Post-Punk + Disco=> First Wave of Dance Punk
Gothic Rock + New Wave=> Dark Wave
Punk Rock + Country=> Cow Punk
Punk Rock + Rockabilly=> Psychobilly + Gothic Rock=>Gothabilly
College Rock (It's about as real of a genre as Protopunk and stems from punk, but I am not quite sure how)
Progressive Rock + Noise Rock/Post-Hardcore/Post-Punk=>Math Rock
Dark Wave=>Ethereal Wave; Cold Wave;
Ethereal Wave=>Dream Pop
Noise Rock + Pop Rock=>Noise Pop
Industrial + Rock (Mostly Hardcore I think)=> Industrial Rock
Progressive Rock + Heavy Metal=>Progressive Metal
Speed Metal=>Power Metal
Thrash Metal=>Death Metal; First Wave of Black Metal
Punk Rock + Folk=> Folk Punk (Or alternative)
Heavy Metal=>Doom Metal + Hardcore=>Sludge Metal
Doom Metal + Psychedelic Rock=>Stoner Metal
Funk + Rock (I think mostly Hard Rock, but I don't know)=> Funk Rock (Don't know where to put this one)
Rock (Of Various forms?) + Hip Hop=>Rap Rock
Rap Rock + Punk (Mostly hardcore?)=>Rapcore
Rap Rock + Heavy Metal=> Rap Metal
Funk Rock + Heavy Metal=> Funk Metal
Noise Rock + Hardcore + Heavy Metal (Especially Sludge)=> Grunge

1990s (See note for the 80s)
Noise Pop + Dream Pop=>
Shoegaze
Dream Pop - Effects=>Slowcore
College Rock=>Lo-fi (Really messy genres right here)
Grunge + Popularity + Hard Rock=>Post-Grunge
Shoegaze/Math Rock/Slowcore=>Post Rock
Rap Metal=> Nu Metal
Melodic Hardcore (and regular punk rock) + Power Pop=> Pop Punk
Emotional Hardcore=>Screamo (This might have been in the 2000s. I don't really know?)
Emotional Hardcore + Pop Punk=> Emo (Or unclassifiable)
Industrial Rock=>Industrial Metal
Alternative Metal (It takes so many influences and is so ill defined that I don't feel like dealing with it right now)
Crossover thrash + Post Hardcore=>Metalcore
Death Metal + Grindcore=>Deathgrind
First Wave of Black Metal + Norway=>Black Metal=>Post Black Metal
Sludge Metal=>Atmospheric Sludge Metal=>Post Metal
Doom Metal+ Gothic Rock=>Gothic Metal (It may or may not be disputed if gothic rock was actually an important influence on this)
Lo-Fi=>Indie Rock + Folk=> Indie Folk
Indie Rock + Pop rock=> Indie Pop
Death Metal + Doom Metal=> Death/Doom
Punk + Celtic Folk=>Celtic Punk
British Music + Indie Rock=>Britpop=>Post Britpop
Hardcore Punk + Hardcore Techno + Jungle + Other electronic musics=> Digital Hardcore

2000s (see above notes)
Gothic Rock + Piano Rock + Pop=>Dark Cabaret
Blues Rock=>Blues Rock Revival
Metalcore + Death Metal=>Deathcore
Post-Hardcore=>Post Hardcore (2000s edition)
Folk Punk + Eastern European Folk Music=>Gypsy Punk
Various alternative genres=>Post-Punk/New Wave/ Garage Rock Revival
Indie Pop + Classical=> Baroque Pop (Which actually first came into being in the 60s)
Math Rock + Metalcore + Grindcore=>Mathcore


That is a very brief explanation of a couple genres connections. I missed out on a whole lot more than I put in though.

Well thank you sir, this is quite informative.

And now I have much to do when I update this.

[ghelded_kultz]

Some other things relating to the OP and other post.

Electronic vs Non Electronic isn't great because there are so many non electronic genres compared to electronic (even if you put hip-hop in Electronic). Better would be art vs pop vs folk/traditional (art is classical/opera/avant garde, we'll throw military and stage/movie related music here too; pop is pop/rock/country/most electronic/hip-hop/r&b/maybe jazz, etc; and traditional is "world music" that doesn't come from fusions and the like + religious music that doesn't fall into another genre)

As far as I am aware, progressive house is a branch of house that led into trance/was influenced by trance/was influential on trance (I'm not quite sure). Whatever it was, it is important enough to mention.

Disco and Reggae are not electronic music genres, as influential as they were. Both later had numerous offspring that are electronic (Electronic/Synthetic Disco=>Post-Disco=>House) (Reggae=>Dancehall(some is electronic, some isn't)=>Ragga (electronic)) but are not electronic themselves.

[Sonarch]

Some other things relating to the OP and other post.

Electronic vs Non Electronic isn't great because there are so many non electronic genres compared to electronic (even if you put hip-hop in Electronic). Better would be art vs pop vs folk/traditional (art is classical/opera/avant garde, we'll throw military and stage/movie related music here too; pop is pop/rock/country/most electronic/hip-hop/r&b/maybe jazz, etc; and traditional is "world music" that doesn't come from fusions and the like + religious music that doesn't fall into another genre)

As far as I am aware, progressive house is a branch of house that led into trance/was influenced by trance/was influential on trance (I'm not quite sure). Whatever it was, it is important enough to mention.

Disco and Reggae are not electronic music genres, as influential as they were. Both later had numerous offspring that are electronic (Electronic/Synthetic Disco=>Post-Disco=>House) (Reggae=>Dancehall(some is electronic, some isn't)=>Ragga (electronic)) but are not electronic themselves.

Yeah, I was basically just formatting those responses so I could see how they were proposed, I don't know how many are really correct, so thanks!

[CaptainFluffatun]

Jesus f------ Christ.


"Electronic" music came later, so comparing EVERYTHING that isn't electronic to that genre is very unfair. What you are thinking of is "traditional" music. I.e. music played with actual instruments. I won't list further genres, because everyone else is already covering that, but you can't do a proper bubble map with improper foundations.

[CaptainFluffatun]

Also, that epic list of genres neglects post-rock, essentially a great combination of ambient and guitars. I know another list mentioned it, but the biggun forgot it.

[colortwelve]

This is how I define the genres on my iTunes:

Disclaimer: The following are opinions on the Internet.

Alternative: More modern rock without the edge that turned into hard rock. Includes less synthetic variants of electronic rock and most non-electronic pop-type music. Example
Alternative Metal: Just as Alternative is poppy, Alternative Metal is essentially hard rock with an infectious chorus - it's aware that it wants to get radio play, so albums may be split between extremely formulaic tracks and semi-progressive songwriting. I clump what they call 'nu-metal' here. Example
Ambient: Anything that's not literal noise and lacks non-incidental percussion. Goes hand in hand with soundscapes. Example
Bass: DnB, dubstep, electro house, glitch-hop, grime, etc. Stuff with lots of sub-bass, distortion, and real drops. Example
Electro: My umbrella term for stuff that's not really classifiable as Bass, House, or IDM. Includes vanilla breakbeat, gabber, purely synthetic electronic rock, and the like. Example
Electronic Rock: The middle ground between synthetic and real; if a song has a real guitar and processed drum samples, chances are it fits here. Example
Electroswing: Another middle ground, this combines an older, more jazz and 30s-40s pop-style sound with synthesis and production. Example
Hard Rock: Modern rock, complete with moderately heavy guitars and that odd kind of vocal delivery that sits neatly between singing and growling. Example
Hip-Hop: Most traditional rap music and instrumental material with a similar aesthetic. Slow breakbeats, basslines that are almost all sub, 808s, cheesy sound design, and faint atmospheres, almost like a less self-conscious form of IDM. Example
House: 4x4 beats in the 120 bpm range, usually fairly repetitive and almost always with some variation of the pluck synth. Example
IDM: Mostly instrumental electronic music with a prominent beat, but usually less repetitive and focused more on careful production and solid composition. Example
Metal: It's called metal because it's harder than rock. Usually focuses more on growled, shouted, or screamed vocals, extremely distorted guitars and frantic percussion. When done properly, you will want to mosh. Example
Progressive Death Metal: Growled vocals, heavy distortion, intricate musicianship, long tracks, sci-fi or fantasy lyrics, concept albums, etc. Example
Progressive Metal: Same as above, but usually devoid of growling. Example
Progressive Rock: Abandons heaviness to bring all the focus on technical mastery, of both instruments and composition. Example
Reggae: The Marleys. Example
Rock: Mostly classic rock - simple production, solid musicianship, and songs which you aren't allowed not to know if you want to talk about music seriously. Example
Symphonic: For some reason, this is the way I tag orchestral and soundtrack music. Probably because it also lets me get away with including piano ballads and stuff like that. Example
Trance: Faster than house, and usually trashier. But without the drums, most trance makes for good ambient. Example

[Captain Ironhelm]

gais, you forget the classics. Around Gregorian Chant you could put:

Mass Ordinary
Drone
Estampie
Organum
Motet
Kyrie
Madrigal
(et cetera)

[Freewave]

Well i've front a project that basically went to explore each genres to subgenre (large and small)

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/TheScient ... te_box_set

You have several hundred guides, about 200 by myself. Show the essential artists, albums, and songs and show you how each developed via the format of an 80 min best of cd.

Some of these I've already posted on the genre of the day thread.
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6649 (if you like what's in there let me know as i hate bumping my own thread and nobody has responded to my last posts which is a bit of a bummer.)

I did do a history of electronic music that goes from oldest to newest and the has a few vids (gotta replace some dead ones) and then links to each box set. http://rateyourmusic.com/list/TheScient ... and_styles
Someone should adapt that flash and update it for posterity's sake.

RYM has its own genre tree system through clickable links down to subgenres
http://rateyourmusic.com/rgenre/
Not super easy to decipher but they make sense and are run by committee and are very in depth.

Best thing you'll find FOR electronic music IS Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music and that truly shows the branching out of major genres of EDM. It's no longer up to date (no dubstep, trap, moombahcore, etc) and some of the names are wrong and many of the definitions written mostly sarcastically but its a great flash guide.
http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Music.
Music.
And music.

Ok serious now.

=> is into
+=> is related to a previous item

EDM
Dubstep (hurr) => Drumstep (hurr hurr)
Moombahton => Moombahcore (apparently theres a difference)
Jungle => Drum and Bass => Liquid Dnb => Nuerofunk (..i think)
House => acid house => minimalistic house => handbag house (thanks for letting me know that's a thing dave from Boyinaband) => French House (mmm) => hard house => hardstyle (according to wikipedia hashfdf) +=> electro house => complextro (and don't forget the bazillions of other kinds of house music)
Trance => lots and lots of subgenres of Trance such as Acid Trance, Anthem Trance etc
Breakbeat => Breakcore or something
Speedcore => Grindcore => terrorcore => lots of thoser stuff involving core
Hardcore => UK Hardcore => Freeform => Happy Hardcore
Detroit Techno => Hard Techno => wonky techno
80's Electro => Modern Electro => some other stuff

Then theres IDM

I'd do Traditional genres, but my knowledge of them is limited and Ghelded covered that pretty thoroughly anyway.

[ghelded_kultz]

Here is another thing sort of like Ishkur's: http://mapofmetal.com/

I really want to make my own version of Ishkur's for rock (complete with MY sarcastic musings!) but i'll never get around to it.

And I just noticed i forgot Ska-punk on my list. NOOOOO!!!!

Ska/Reggae + Punk Rock=>2-Tone=>Ska-Punk

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I dare you to find an example of each of the things you listed, Ghelded >:D

[ghelded_kultz]

I dare you to find an example of each of the things you listed, Ghelded >:D

IT'S ON!!!!!


I'll hyper link them in the original post as I find examples and will even try a different artist for each different mention of a genre (that might be hard for some of the ones I don't know as well though.

[Freewave]

Here is another thing sort of like Ishkur's: http://mapofmetal.com/

there's these
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ealogy.jpg

http://www.steffmetal.com/ask-a-metalhe ... mily-tree/

There's also a tree that VH1 made for their 10 parter History of Metal....

[Sonarch]

Gah, I only had time to add House in before my computer went out. I'll try to get more on it tomorrow.

[XXDarkShadow79XX]

I can name at least 10 subgenres of dubstep alone. Let's see...

Chillstep
Liquid Dubstep
Deep/Oldschool
Filthstep
Deathstep
Dubstyle
Corestep
Progstep

Ok, 10-8, same thing.

[colortwelve]

Corestep

Please tell me you're joking