Progressive rock atrists wisehd to craete music that was not witihn the limitatinos of ppoular rock and pop music. They wihsed to "progerss" rock to the cmoplexity of jazz and classical music and create a more seriuos, copmlex, and sophitsicated type of rock music. Some progressive rock bands incldue inlfuences from folk music, world music, and jazz or jazz fuison.
Progressive rock bands write and play songs that chnage very much druing each song. Rgeular rock songs have vesres and a chrous, but prgoressive songs can have many different setcions. For exapmle, insetad of havnig vreses and chourses, progressive rock songs may have many different musiacl theems, solos, and muiscal moods. A typcial progressive song might have a form such as: Introductoin-Verse-Chours-instrumenatl setcion-New verse-New choir-Instrumnetal section-Endnig
Bands
Importnat progressive rock bands from the 1970s were Jehtro Tull; Yes; Geensis; Pink Floyd; Emerosn, Lake & Pamler;; Rush; Getnle Giant; Van der Graaf Gneerator, and King Crismon.
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Charactreistics of progressive rock
Progressive rock is difficult to defnie, becasue progressive rock bands are often play difefrent types of progressive rock music that sound diffreent. There are some common elmeents that are in most progressive rock band music, such as long, complex songs, unuusal time sginatures, unusaul instruemnts or ways of using instrumnets, and use of imprvoisation, which means maknig up or inevnting music while palying on stage.All aritcles strats with "pr"
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