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Originally Posted by Radioactive Poltergeist
You don't really need to mix classical music and pop. I mean, if you listen to some of Mozart’s sonatas or operas you have the mix already and most people who go further end up producing awful music. I think the whole point of prog rock was to try and reproduce classical techniques in rock music, and the majority of talent less hacks who tried ended up producing pedantic and joyless music.
African music makes for some interesting mixes with Western music. Ali Farka Toure is a Mali musician who plays traditional folk music from Mali with strong influences from American Blues, which is pretty cool.
Most attempts to synthesize different styles of music don't really work. You end up with complete failures like Gogol Bordello. Although, Bela Bartok wrote some very good pieces based on Hungarian, Romanian and Gypsy folk music which is definitely worth listening to.
Hala Strana also comes to mind. They are part of the Jeweled Antler Collective and they play Eastern European music mixed with drone and such.
I don't know, I'm not sure if this helps or not.
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No this helps. What I'm getting is that no matter ambition if you try to mix too much of classical with rock you will fail. I pretty much write pop songs, and I'm not really looking for something to throw in a bridge like gogo bordello when all of a sudden we go into a "kick yr legs in the air and dance around fiddle solo". I'm just looking more for melodies I haven't heard before or ways to ascend from certain chords and etc. into other things. Basically just trying to hear new shit. for example I got into buddy holly alot when I was younger, experimenting with the songs that would start with the chorus and repeat that throughout the song and there would be a few verses thrown in between. The first song I tried to write with that structure became my bands first big crowd fav/hit.
I'm really not trying to do prog but more like what the beatles and brian wilson did and etc. but I don't want to do it exactly like them. so instead of studying their music, I'd rather study the music that inspired THEM. and other music that have inspired people on other sides of the world and not just the west.
EDIT: there's also been alot of other recommendations since I last checked so give me a bit to look thru those, but thanks for keeping them coming and not making fun of me too much :-)