Huggy Love
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I play in a jam band. Follow a lot of jam music. There is plenty of improvisation out there to be had. I'm not sure about mainstream music, but mainstream music was never really improv based.
Listen to this if you want to hear some good modern rock improv. This band is the truth. Everything after 4:00 into this video is entirely made up. Not just the solos but the chord progressions, structural changes, basslines etc as well. (Also PRS content)
I love Umphrey's McGee, both their guitar players kick ass, they even state Al D as one of their main influences in an interview. They've been around and do the college circuit thing, but I wouldn't consider them modern rock, they're a jam band. One of the bright spots for musicianship in recent times.:top:
"mainstream music was never really improv based"....Well, yes & no. If you just say pop, then I guess it is no, but rock from it's inception had improv in it's DNA from it's blues roots. All those Chuck Berry & Little Richard riffs started out as improv and they just stuck with them so they became standardized licks, "Rock around the clock" has a guitar solo. The Beatles and british invasion groups had some improv and a lot of pre orchestrated stuff, while hard rock, early metal, and a fair amount of even pop had sax,keyboard,or guitar solos during certain periods. So blues & jazz (*to me*) are the only "improv based" music forms, but it has always been a part of mainstream rock's roots at least until the 90's.
PS-Is jam band music just called "Jam music"? cause that's improv based too.:biggrin:
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