Why is no prog, metal or any genre of music attempting to recreate classical music in different contexts ever written with this level of care and structure?https://youtu.be/xJxlB8iALVU
>>127927199Lack of familiarity maybe? Most prog musicians I know never received classical education.Jordan Rudess is classically trained but he's a terrible composer.
>>127927199Most popular music songs, even rock/metal/prog, no matter how niche, long and/or virtuosic they are, are built from sections that repeat and contrast for audience impact. Classical works like Brahms's Op. 34 rely on continuous motivic development and long-range harmonic planning. I guess it's just a tradition most popular genres neither train for nor reward.
the only people who make threads like this are people who've been into classical music for at most a month and wonder why neither classical fans reply to their threads or why prog/metal/whatever fans they're attacking won't respond to their bait
What is the most complex prog or metal ever written anyways?
>>127929205gentle giant and magma probably, at least for prog rockthere's some really fucking technical death metal out there that runs circles around 99% of anything but it's unlistenable and structurally garbage.
>>127929258>it's unlistenable and structurally garbageThat's the issue with shredders and players like Rudess. They play better than most people but their music sounds like excercises. Even Bach's inventions that were meant to be excercises are more structured.
>>127929258Gentle Giant lifts a lot of techniques and structures from Western art music that you rarely see other prog bands do, they still sound very bound to the rock "pop structure". Not that that's a fault since Gentle Giant's my favourite band of all time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i24NjljMcMMagma's a completely different beast though. The real deal.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjYnuhIlnIU
