Soft rock or light rock is basically a sub genre of pop music which mainly features acoustic guitars & slow to mid tempos. Soft rock Music Makers employ regular use of catchy, high pitch harmonies, plain verse-chorus structures & lyrics that are sentimental. Soft rock music has its roots in the starting of 70s in California, U.S.A. It started to emerge as a different genre of music by deriving the beats of pop & rock music, but after making the edges smooth. One of the key feature in which soft rock have differentiated from Hard rock is that in the former, the song beats are quite less rebellious in nature. Soft rock became sensation over U.S. radio in the 70s and finally got transformed into adult contemporary in the 80s. A prominent counterpart of soft rock in the late 1970s and early 1980s came to be known as 'yacht rock also emerged as a counterpart of soft rock music.