• nyctre@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not a musician or anything but I thought rock was more based on blues than jazz. Am I wrong?

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      1 year ago

      Not necessarily, but jazz brought a lot of the higher energy that became inspirational for rock and roll to develop. Technically, it is more based on Blues, using similar chords and note progression, and I suppose it would be more accurate to say that the basis for Rock is Blues, with the influence of Jazz’s more chaotic, improvisational methods.

      I’ll update my comment to reflect this in the top level

      Mostly when people think of blues, they think of… well, having “the blues.” The sad, emotional songs that sing your soul to be rent, whereas rock is usually very different in its popular appearances.