Did prog musicians develop new playing techniques? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I'm not sure they did. They built upon what was already there and added techniques and styles often found outside of rock/prog.
Keyboard solos are basically just guitar solos performed on keys.

That's not to say that prog solos aren't wonderful, they truly are and some even give me goosebumps. I'm just a little tired of these threads that wish to applaud prog and tell the world how good the music is....by, ever so cunningly, trying to lift the genre above other genres. The first part is cool and basically why I'm here. The last bit is the 'better than thou' syndrome that I hate with a vengeance.

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Pretty sure Django Reinhardt got there first. It was just before it got a name

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Speaking of new ideas and guitarists....what about Frippertronics by Fripp...?

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What the OP is talking about has more to do with the explosion of new instruments, mainly synths, that brought about the new and alien sounding music. New instruments bring about new sounds - even if the technique is 50 years old.

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I imagine some of the ways synthesizer sounds and samples were used were first explored (and performed & recorded) by certain adventurous/experimental artists who happened to be making music that was being called "art rock" or "progressive rock." Eno with sound manipulation. Bruford with Simmons drums. Levin with the ChapmanStick. Fripp with foot-pedal-initiated looping. I remember reading articles in Keyboard magazine from Peter Gabriel about his invention of gated drum sound for his third eponymously titled album recording sessions and from David Sylvian regarding "squeezing every sound possible" from a Prophet 5. Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Trevor Horn, and Anne Dudley must've been having a field day with the Fairlight CMI. New technologies bred new sounds. So maybe I'm talking more about sounds than stylistic inventions, but the keyboard pitch-bender or portamento or computerized sequencing and sampling and wave-editing features are examples of technological innovations that resulted in new sounds and techniques.

Edited by BrufordFreak - May 13 2018 at 09:08

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It's probably just safer to say that what prog musicians brought to the table, that indeed was new, was the way they merged styles of already existing musics in order to form something altogether new. Even moreso than what was attempted durng the 60s (jazz scene in particular), and what's perhaps even more interesting to these ears: nothing out there sounded like it! The young crowd buying these albums experienced music like they'd never heard before....and that is truly a wonderful feat. Being part of creating something unique.

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Re op, easy answer: NO

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Ian Anderson wasn't the first to use a "nasty" flute sound; jazz flautists like Roland Kirk had been doing it earlier (Kirk was also know for playing multiple saxophones at once, which inspired David Jackson of VdGG). However, I think he may have invented playing flute while standing on one leg!

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ForestFriend wrote:

Kirk was also know for playing multiple saxophones at once, which inspired David Jackson of VdGG

I was going to ask about David Jackson's multiple saxophone playing, but you already answered it.

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