Hard Rock Blues
AC/DC / Guns N' Roses / Van Halen / Black Sabbath. Riff identifies the song in 8 seconds. Blue-collar concrete register; CWM ≥0.65.
Quick facts
Try this substyle
One-click starter prompt hand-tuned for Hard Rock Blues. Exercises: VPI + CWM + riff-first paradigm
A hard-rock-blues song. Riff identifies the song in 8 seconds. Blue-collar concrete register — a specific factory, a specific 1978 truck, specific names. Time-to-hook ≤ 30s. Percussive consonants (hard /k/, /t/, /p/) on stressed peaks. Open-vowel chorus payoff.
Parent arc · SA#27
“At rock altitude, the vowel must yield to the pitch.”
The first arc to ground a Sacred Accident in measurable formant physics. Above ~G4 chest voice, F0 collides with the structural formant of closed vowels — the singer reshapes mid-note, breaking the chorus payoff. The Vowel-Pitch Integrity primitive flags closed-vowel cliffs at chorus peaks. 5 substyles span classic-rock-radio → roots-heartland, each with its own VPI ceiling.
The load-bearing primitive is VPI — applied to every rock lyric the forge produces, including Hard Rock Blues.
Forbidden Archive · 10 failure modes
Hard Rock Blues inherits the full Rock Forbidden Archive. The critic loop flags any of these by canonical name.
Other Rock substyles
Forge a Hard Rock Blues song
The forge applies the rock substyle profile for Hard Rock Blues, banned failure modes, and VPI as a pre-output gate.