SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MATH ROCK AND PROG ROCK
SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MATH ROCK AND PROG ROCK
Brody Young
Landon White
Prog rock focuses on form and structure, math rock focuses on rhythms (though may occasionally focus on more minimalism inspired structure.)
Cameron Hernandez
tool is math rock because they incorporate math formulas :^)
Dominic Anderson
Math rock is more intense than prog rock because math is hard
Brody Wright
I’m not a fan of either, but i think it’s like:
Prog rock: progressive rock. The music progresses, not following a standard song structure. The musicians attempt to make progress in the field of rock.
Math rock: based on weird time signatures. Autists and people who don’t fully understand math OR music think it’s impressive. Must be technically difficult to play.
Someoone tell me how wrong i am?
Owen Wood
This is actually pretty spot on
Jaxon Jones
math rock is more bleepy bloopy
Brayden Miller
listen to King Crimson and Yes
that's prog rock
math rock stems from like alternate rock and it overlaps a lot with 'emo' music, it's almost completely disconnected from prog rock, I don't understand how you managed to confuse the two lmao
Blake Martin
mathrock is gay
nyeheuheuhghh nyeh hey damien check this out im gonna do an equation on my guitar
wow man nice trigonometry nice taste in math riffs bro algebraic. dude donovan the sum of this song is so sick you gotta solve to this
Hudson Rogers
Kys
Both are based on weird forms, time signatures, chords. How is it possible to not confuse them. Also math rock has literally zero to do with emo. Kys too.
Colton Garcia
Math rock isn't boring, prog rock is
Eli Smith
prog rock: it kinda sounds like weeeeee rumm rumm weeeee rummm
math rock kinda sounds like: ten tenenenen ten ten ten ten tenenenen
Jonathan Edwards
math rock is prog filtered through a 90s indie / posthc aesthetic
Adam Moore
Prog rock is good and math rock is bad
Angel Baker
Prog rock: Tue puuu ririririri caaaa cooo cuuu RGAGAGAG
Math Rock: *good music*
Eli Wright
Imagine actually liking math rock lmao
Jackson Cox
this thread is epic so far
Grayson Gonzalez
Prog rock came about in the late 60s early 70s. It's influenced by the experimental stuff that had been attempted by pop bands already, and it was an attempt to "progress" further. Prog rock takes elements of hard rock and mixes in elements of jazz and classical. A lot of prog rock sounds very experimental and strange
Math rock came about in the late 80s early 90s. It's influenced by jazz too, but it's more subdued. It uses a lot of complex polyrhythms, hence the "math" name. Without getting technical/musical theory on you, math rock tends to sound more twangy and noodly than prog rock. Here are some songs to give you an idea:
Aphrodite's Child - Four Horsemen (prog rock) youtube.com
Esperanto - Eleanor Rigby (prog rock) youtube.com
King Crimson - Starless (prog rock) youtube.com
Elephant Gym - 白日 (math rock) youtube.com
Floral - Aquarius Theater (math rock) youtube.com
Slint - Breadcrumb Trail (math rock) youtube.com
Julian Harris
>twangy and noodly
more like gay and twinkly and LAME
Xavier Cruz
I don't have to imagine, pls kill me
>tfw no one wants to awkwardly shake to sperg rock w you
Elijah Morales
short vs long
Tyler Fisher
You just need an excuse. I played some Elephant Gym for someone once, I didn't say "this is math rock," I said "this is some Chinese band, I listen to it cause I'm learning Chinese," and they said it was pretty good
Levi Gonzalez
How is math rock jazz influenced? It doesn't really use jazz chords. Can you really say that it's jazzy just because it uses odd rhythms and time signatures?
Sebastian Martin
math rock
>2+2=4
progressive rock
>2+2=5
just for you sweetie : ^)
Angel King
Wipe that smug grin off your face
Isaiah Young
>The musicians attempt to make progress in the field of rock.
>attempt
disregarded
Jackson Hernandez
You're right that it doesn't sound jazzy, but math rock musicians decided to use complex rhythms and odd time signatures because of free jazz. It is literally jazz influenced
Ayden Bailey
Wow you can read the minds of every musician who makes math rock. Holy shit!