Hybrid Rock

Rock, alternative, or sometimes even hardcore music that has a-little-more-than-subtle similiarities in beat, rhythm, or general sound to rap or hip-hop. Often, a driving, distorted guitar riff will be accompanied by vocals consisting of quick and rhythmic speech. Along with the guitar, it is also popular to include vinyl scratching from a turn table. Drums are often kept more on the aggressive side of rock than on the slow, beat-measuring, heavy hits of a rap sample. Bass tends to consist of basic alternative elements rather than the superfluously loud and low booms from sound samples used in rap. It is also a popular practice to switch between sung portions of the song to spoken sections and back (i.e. chorus and verses sung but the bridge is rapped).

Hybrid rock has great potential (when executed properly) to be enjoyed by groups of people from many different backgrounds and with many different tastes.

Girl: "What are you listening to, dude?"

Boy: -keeps rocking out-

Girl: "WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO!!"

Boy: "Oh, hey... I'm spinning some Linkin Park at this moment. I've got thier "Hybrid Theory" and "Meteora" albums on shuffle! It's pretty kick-butt, if I do say so myself."

Girl: "Oh, what genre are they?"

Boy: "Well, you take rock and get it acquainted with rap. The two will become interested in each other and will go on a date. With time, they will grow closer and fall in love and eventually, after the legal marriage ceremony, they will one day give birth to a child, and that child's name will be Hybrid Rock!"

Girl: "Sounds like an oxymoron."

Boy: "Nah. It's a paradox."

by PhobiaPhrenzy September 19, 2009

Lesbian hybrid

a female who is a lesbian and possesses both butch and fem traits. It's the best of both worlds.

Wow that girl is a lesbian hybrid.

by mostawesome June 13, 2011

hybridamp

1. An amplifier with two different classes of circuits. ex: Class A/B and Class D amplifier, in one chasis.

2. The daemon of the internet underworld.

Thats the best sounding hybridamp ever!

by DaPewpSter October 10, 2004

hybrid rudiment

A standard percussive rudiment that has been combined with one or more other standard rudiments.

The Rudy-mental is an example of a hybrid rudiment (accented roll r/tap l/flam r/tap r).

by leemcd56 August 5, 2008

hybrid texting

When you are texting one or more person and one of your text messages turns into a hybrid of the other texts.

Text one to Joe: Did you climb that hill this morning?
Text two to Beth: Did you go out with Jack and Jill last night?
Text three to John: Did you find any water in the basement?
Text four and hybrid texting (you, trying to respond to their responses--to John): Jack and Jill when up the hill to find water?

by Proclus_Plato November 30, 2011

Hybrid Living

A combination of modern conveniences and living off the grid.

Hybrid living is having a remote old-school log cabin with wood stove and kerosene lanterns, while utilizing modern conveniences such as internet and refrigeration via power collected from solar panels.

by Sweet Pea Marie July 24, 2011

hybrid rock

1. While playing hard rock, you tend to mix it with jazz, punk, and ska guitar riffs for a melodic then upbeat sound. Normally played with double bass pedals for the drums and picking on the bass giutar.

2. When a band mixes two or more genres to create a different sound and style than the genres seperately.

" The natural outcome is one of those hybrid rock bands. Their music is hard to explain but easy to listen to."

by thebreadcolonist November 27, 2011