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WHY ARE YOU READING THIS

GO PRACTICE

All rock fans have now are the Black Keys. And the countless other rock bands that are overlooked by the Top 40 but still produce great music, of course.

I don't know if that's true... we've had at LEAST as many "lol Skrillex" and "I will bear Dave Grohl's children" posts as "lol Nickelback" posts.

A study by the Martin Prosperity Institute assigned each metropolitan area in the United States a "Metro Music Index" according to the concentration of musicians and of businesses in the music industry. Ongoing studies are also incorporating online information from networks central to the music industry, such as MySpace.

The top 10 metro areas with the largest index are:
1. Nashville, TN
2. New York, NY
3. Los Angeles, CA
4. San Francisco, CA
5. Seattle, WA
6. Las Vegas, NV
7. Portland, OR
8. New Orleans, LA
9. Rochester, NY
10. Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

Lulu, of course, is the TRUE masterpiece. Also, this chart hasn't quite exercised Master of Puppets to its fullest potential.

The statistics are a little skewed thanks to the often-forgotten 1973 single "Yeah, Baby, Yeah! Love! Yeahhhhghhhh!!" which featured David Lee Roth wailing the title for three and a half minutes over a sitar drone.

Don't forget the grammar!

Alternatively, a flowchart:

Is it Adele? Yes -----> Play it No -----> Eh, better save it for now

Scales are both the most important and the most tedious part of any practice regimen, but they're still a lot less complicated than, say, feelings.

You can't tell, since this is only a VISUAL hybrid, but the beaver is playing rock, the duck is rapping, and the platypus is fearlessly playing rap-rock. With a keytar. Because it already makes enough sense.

I'd like to add "true/you/do" to the list, particularly from older songs.