When athletic height jumping was considered done and perfected, there was the Fosbury flop which opened new possibilities. Do you think there was such a moment in the music history? When someone showed how things can be done and from there everyone is using his/her technique?
pr06lefs ( @pr06lefs@lemmy.ml ) 17•4 months agoEqual temperament, where all the keys have basically the same intervals rather than having different characters as in just intonation. Enabled modulation from one key to another as in Bach and Jazz.
neidu2 ( @neidu2@feddit.nl ) 5•4 months agoA few modern production techniques come close, but I agree, equal temperament tuning was a game changer. It allowed “anyone” to transpose “any” piece of music into “any” key, broadening the available instruments for a piece.
Plus drop D tuning would be impossible without it.
bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 8•4 months agoThere have been lots of technological advancements which led to revolutions in music. The electric guitar, multi-track mixing, synthesizers, etc.
Each of them brought with them while new genres of music.
Evkob ( @Evkob@lemmy.ca ) 13•4 months agoYou didn’t even mention the biggest technological leap; recording. Being able to capture music and play it at one’s will fundamentally changed virtually everything about music.
bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 3•4 months agoYup. Radio did as well
AceQuorthon ( @AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 7•4 months agoProbably when some people started using the studio as an “instrument”, like Phil Spector with his Wall of Sound, or Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys during the Pet Sounds sessions. Never before had music sounded so good and rich in sound.
👍Maximum Derek👍 ( @Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ) English7•4 months agoDave Davies of The Kinks changed rock music with a razor blade. Distortion pedals existed but they couldn’t provide the same kind of fuss sound that we hear in “You Really Got Me”… but a year later they could.
neidu2 ( @neidu2@feddit.nl ) 6•4 months agoSo many great examples in this thread already, so I’m going to go with a simpler one: Guitar overdrive. intentionally increasing the gain beyond max input level of the amplifier to produce a more square wave tone would’ve seemed sacrilege to guitarists from the 30’s and 40’s.
And today it’s the foundation of so many guitar sounds and music genres. squirrel ( @squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•4 months agoI would say going from analogue to digital recording. Digital made edits possible that where impossible before.
Big P ( @peter@feddit.uk ) English3•4 months agoThe I–V–vi–IV progression
apotheotic(she/they) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English3•4 months agoThe Amen break is sampled absolutely everywhere in modern music, that’s probably the closest you’ll get to absolute ubiquity like the Fosbury flop
セリャスト ( @seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•4 months agoAMEN BREAK AMEN BREAK AMEN BREAK
VodkaSolution ( @vodkasolution@feddit.it ) 2•4 months agoNot just one imho: if we go that back in time I’d start with electric instruments, more recently (~50 yrs ago) multitrack, then electronic music (whether you have it started with synth in the 80s or with music entirely made on a computer in the early 00s). All 3 changed the game and were adopted by everyone
SecretPancake ( @SecretPancake@feddit.de ) 1•4 months agoI don’t believe music was ever considered done and perfected but I’ll throw in looping. What single musicians are able to do with this technique is amazing. But not sure who invented it.
SamsonSeinfelder ( @SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de ) 1•4 months agoI go with autotune. Biggest change in the last 20 years and everbody is doing it from amateur to professional.