The electric guitars in soft rock are normally faint and high-pitched. The genre tends to make use of acoustic guitars, pianos, synthesizers and sometimes saxophones. Soft rock songs generally tend to focus on themes like love, everyday life and relationships. Major artists included Carole King, Cat Stevens, The Hollies, James Taylor and Bread. Soft rock was often derived from folk rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody and harmonies.
with this style emerging as major radio formats in the US.
From the end of the 1960s, it became common to divide mainstream rock music into soft rock as the true folk rock sound. Hard rock had been established as a mainstream genre by 1965. Soft rock or light rock is really a subgenre of pop rock which uses the techniques of rock music (often combined with elements from folk music, brill building, baroque pop and folk rock) to compose a softer, more toned-down sound. A hollow-body electric guitar of soft rock
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