Basically, is the genre type connected to different technique or style of playing?
Like metal: dropped tuning, down stokes (mostly) and single finger chords vs. classic rock(?) standard tuning, power chords (2,3 or more notes per), alternate picking. This is a simplification of course. Is this example a technique or style difference? Tone is involved here as are certain acoustic properties and other areas of the physics of sound. Older bands did not have the equipment we have today. Hendrix live sounded way different then his recordings. If he were alive today would he sound heavier; not louder. His technique was different from album to album but his style was the same. Maybe this doesn't make sense but, some songs in supposedly different genres sound the same or similar. What does AOR stand for anyway? Hold it, I'm rambling.
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