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A little more recent metalband - Gamma Ray from Germany - awesome band!
Ozric Tentacles.
Gong.
Ullulators.
Hawkwind.
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Not to forget Steve Hillage’s solo albums too.
Wow, all of these are amazing suggestions for me to check out.
And then, a friend of mine outside of this forum suggested Alan Parsons Project. Not sure if everything they did was Prog, but "I Robot" was an amazing song!
80’s metal was my music all through high school. Solo Ozzy Osbourne ( Blizzard of Ozz, Diary of a Madman) Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, Dio, Dokken, Whitesnake, Judas Priest, Dio, Scorpions, etc. were all a big part of the soundtrack of that time period for me.
Riffler does a great job of generating those kind of metal riffs.
For more prog type stuff, Rush and Yes were the popular choices but you should give a listen to King Crimson’s Beat, Discipline, and Three of a Perfect Pair if you haven’t.
I find that a 5/4 beat or 7/8 time is best for progressive music.
Some great suggestions here. I love a bit of Space Rock and Prog!
Here is a band that you probably haven't heard of but definitely count as space rock. Some of my internet friends!
https://outstation.bandcamp.com/music
Was always a bit wary of the twiddly widdly stuff but I can definitely recommend LOOP, them and spacemen 3 were about as spacy as I got, anything with more than two chords is too confusing for me anyway.
Hell yeah! In fact anything that Jason Spaceman has been involved with.
Yes!!! And sonic booms solo synth stuff too!!!!
So I started doing some research on Prog Rock, and here's what I found so far.
Prog Rock Notes
First 12 Albums "Starter Kit"
Prog Rock Song from Scratch in Four Parts
Structure an Album (applies to any genre)
What is Progressive Rock? (And Why Do All the Coolest People Like It?)
So I have a "starter pack" of albums to listen to (although I already consumed "Dark Side of the Moon" twice for the first time in decades, with my first and only time before today being my Dad showing me the album on vinyl. My late Dad had excellent taste in music!)
So much excellent bands and albums to check out it'll take me a lifetime.
Now if you have any tips on writing Prog Music besides experimenting with non-traditional time sigs (5/4, 7/8, etc) I'm definitely all ears. I'm in my "listening and learning" phase.
This probably isn't considered real prog, and not particularly rock, but I really recommend watching La Planète Sauvage, a trippy French animated science fiction movie from 1973.
The whole movie:
The soundtrack:
As legendary hip hop sample fodder:
Definitely a couple of odd ones on that list.
‘Moving Pictures’ is Rush moving away from prog rock and recording shorter songs.
‘A Trick of the Tail’ was the first Genesis album after Gabriel left, and the start of a more polished sound that started to gain some pop elements.
A Progressive Rock band not mentioned yet is Marillion. Their most popular albums: Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws.
One of the fun aspects of Prog is the idea of the "concept album".
If this interests you then I'd swap out Tull's "Aqualung" (great as it is) for the very concepty "Thick As A Brick". It is one long track over 2 sides of an LP.
And "The Yes Album" (also great) for album "Close To The Edge". Side 1 of this is epic "symphonic" prog in one 19 min track that takes up all of side 1 of the vinyl LP.
I'm learning so much and listening to so much great music!
And I'm glad to have you lot here to help correct/swap some of the suggestions some of the Youtubers make and to help educate me. This forum is blessed by so many great folks.
Who would've guessed that once I turned 40, I'd crave something new (to me) and different (to me) than I've ever listened to in the past? Just because I entered middle age doesn't mean I'm done learning and becoming interested in new (to me) and exciting genres of music I've never considered.
And to think this all started as a recent obsession with Justice's "Woman" album which has some elements of Prog in it (amongst other genre elements). I'm having the f-cking time of my life right now! 😃 Thank you all so much so far.
I'm nowhere near ready enough to try making a Prog Rock song (let alone an album, but then again as I've learned today, sometimes one song IS the album, much like Ambient in some aspects where one piece of Ambient can be the album, but I'd argue Prog Rock is far, far more interesting and complex than Ambient, but ymmv).
Completely forgot one of my favorite prog rock bands - Van Der Graaf Generator. Their singer Peter Hammill also released some great albums.
To show how different their appeal is, John Lydon cited them as a big influence.
Mr bungle
A perfect circle
Public image limited
Liquid tension experiment
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Listen to Child In Time by Deep Purple, it’s a classic
Excellent suggestions. Listening to "Child In Time" right now. Holy shit, so far this is an amazing trip how it's building up! 🤯
Anyways... https://uncyclopedia.com/wiki/HowTo:Write_a_Progressive_Rock_Song
OMG, this is one of the most f-cking hilarious things I've read. Reminds me of my friend Gabe's sarcastic and humourous style of writing while also teaching you a thing or two about the genre.
Okay, now I'm trying to figure out which app to use to simulate Prog Rock with its time sig switches and bpm changes. I know NS2 is capable of that, but it has no f--king audio tracks. I wish Cubasis 3 could do time signatures and bpm changes.
I know Logic has bpm automation, but can it also do multiple time signatures? Shit man, I may return to Logic as a DAW just to create some sort of Prog Rock ish.
Are there other apps out there I haven't considered using or am unaware of that can do multiple time signatures per project and bpm changes?
May just have to load up on instruments, learn to play em and just record in multitrack style, screw sequencers!
I wish, rofl! I'd like to make music that way, if I were a rich man. That could be a song - "If I Were a Rich Man".
I realised I could use Gadget as it can vary time signatures and BPMs per scene. I also have the Gadget ecosystem all on my iPad Mini. Okay, that should solve that then.
Woah, had no idea! Hmmmmm.... ...
I just wish I could do the sideload thing of iM1 and other iPad-only apps to iPhone Gadget, but ever since version 3 I've been unable to. However, I am certainly not lacking of sounds in Gadget, and I still have 100gb of 256 left on my Mini 6.
I...just don't want to use NS2. 😂
I want to but sadly Koala does not play well there and I get multitrack export issues in general... sigh, was a good run. But yah good olde BM3 is still serving me well.
That's odd. It worked fine for me when recently changing to a new phone. The process was smoother than it has ever been.
+1 … Bill Bruford’s drumming was from another place.
Did Darwin and such show up in your list of apps that can be installed? Never showed up in mine despite uninstalling and reinstalling Gadget.