Both rock and pop have melody-dominated, homophonic musical texture. Both tend to be mainly in 4/4 time signature. Both tend to have formulaic song structure, alternating verse and chorus with...
Well if by why you mean how then pop is usauly separated from rock by the beat and insterments. Rock usauly has a much harder beat something you want to jam your head to when pop usauly makes you...
If the musicians play their own instruments, if the focus isn't entirely on the vocals and if it sounds like rock... then it's probably rock. Sorry, that probably wasn't too helpful but it's the best...
Pop rock is a genre that mixes catchy pop lyrics with rock based instrumentation. The characteristics are: They appeal to a general audience, rather than to a sub-culture. They emphasise...