Talk:Heavy metal gallop

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there is a reference to 1967. how about the song Peggy Sue, circa 1957, which has a gallop? i'd make an edit but i don't know what to cite, other than your ears at the key point.

List of bands that use it?!
Simply creating a list for this is useless, so perhaps a few examples would be best for now. As far as I know, that's a common groove metal/thrash beat. Basically what I mean is: this list is incompletable.

P.S. I've always thought that the "gallop" was done on the hat/ride/crash, so maybe that could be added as an alternative. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.242.122.19 (talk) 06:59, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Different gallops
Hal Leonard's Guitar All-in-One For Dummies seems to show two different gallops: "driving sixteenth-note sound like a horse's gallop" with "Immigrant Song" and "Blackened" as the examples [p.141]; and "which is composed of an eight note followed by two sixteenths" with no examples [p.143]. Problem is the two songs listed in the first mention don't follow the second definition.

Martin Popoff writes "['Immigrant Song'] is a prototype of the heavy metal gallop, and its F minor staccato chug of a riff—essentially the riff is a back-and-forth staccato performance of octave F# notes..." [p.97]. David Fricke in Alfred Music's Mothership songbook calls it "Page's rusted gallop" [p. 4] (rusted?) and the sheet music shows a repeated 8th–16th–16th–16th–8th–16th, which is not the same as a repeated 8th–16th–16th. "Blackened" is described as a more complex song, with a mention of "the drums gallop in", but not as a pattern. [Apatoff p.115]

Propose to clarify the article examples with two categories: 1) the "classic" heavy metal gallop (eighth note followed by two sixteenth notes) and 2) variations using somewhat different patterns, but still called "heavy metal gallops" by some sources. "Immigrant Song", "Children of the Grave", and "Highway Star" would be moved as examples of the second category. If there are no objections, I'll make the changes.

—Ojorojo (talk) 15:13, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Classical music?
e.g. Rossini, Shostakovich? w.i.k.i.w.a.r.r.i.o.r 9919 00:48, 9 July 2023 (UTC)