Progressive rock or prog is often abbreviated type of music that began to flourish at the end of the decade of the '60s and reached its heyday in the '70s, combining elements of rock, jazz and classical music. Sometimes the influence of blues and traditional music was also felt.
Starting from experimental rock musicians at the time, inspired by The Beatles and The Beach Boys began combining traditional music, classical and jazz music into their compositions. Some of the leading progressive rock band is Yes, King Crimson, UK, Pink Floyd and Genesis from around 1969, Rush from the 70's and Marillion, Dream Theater from the 80s.
Just as the music flows the other, is very difficult to define precisely the progressive rock music. Because of this there is much debate about whether one group of prog music or not. But there are some typical prog music that usually can be found in the works of prog musicians. Among these are unconventional rhythms (not 4/4 or syncopation), an advanced mastery of musical instruments with complex solos, and songs that exceed the normal length (more than 5 minutes, usually about 12-20 minutes or even more length).
Many progressive rock group that publishes an album with songs similar theme or connection-connect to tell a story (called a concept album). Examples include the concept album Metropolis 2: Scenes from a Memory Dream Theater and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway from Genesis. There are many current progressive music group that started out from the stigma of progressive music as a genre and go back to the core thinking progressive music as a very, very strong views influenced views of Jazz.
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