What’s the meaning of prog

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 Jacob Schoolcraft wrote:

 amarthu wrote:

It may seem a silly question. I’m absolutely a fan of prog music, but yesterday a comment saying ‘complex for the sake of complex’ which someone used to describe an album led me to think the meaning of prog music. My initial reason for listening to this kind of music is probably the state of tiredness of pop music, which has a quite fixed pattern. I like new sounds. But is complexity really needed to express a particular thing?

It's a fact that Prog is drawn from ..or created from other styles of music. It's mainly notable that Progressive Rock is influenced by Classical and Jazz , however its also influenced by Latin, African, Egyptian as well. ..in the sense that the essence of music derived from ancient cultures is often used in Progressive Rock to create an atmosphere. Interestingly all the styles I've mentioned can be complex or gymnastic to play. In some cases they are not, but in most cases they are. They require skill and precision to play . To an extent..it's much easier to play Rock , but once Rock is combined with the aforementioned it can become complex. Certain embellishments and or phrasing..for example music from India contains intense phrasing...people tend to believe its Rock guitar phrasing. It isn't. It's scales or modes played as lines during improvisation that were created in India centuries ago and then fused with Rock in our lifetime. It's complexity is natural to occur in Progressive Rock. I honestly believe that's the cause , gain, or interest in the music of Prog Rock and it's sub genre's.