June 06, 2006

Pachelbel's Canon on the Electric Guitar

One of my all time favorite songs would have to be Pachelbel's Canon in D Major. You haven't heard anything if you can't feel the strings vibrate through to your bones. You know... when it sends a shiver down your spine and you go all tingley. It is one of the few songs I have heard in my life that has actually made me almost come to tears, when I heard it played by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra as a kid.

Today I came across an amazing interpretation done on a guitar on YouTube. And no, this isn't a classical acoustic one. Some guy in his bedroom playing his rendition on an electric guitar. You have to go check it out.

All I can say is "WOW".

Posted by SilverStr at June 6, 2006 05:40 PM | TrackBack
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Do you know anything about the player? He looks to be about 13.

The arrangement sounds vauguely familiar, but if the kid did it himself . . .

j

Posted by: Jim Maher at June 6, 2006 08:04 PM

This is a copy-cat video.
In the begining of the video, he credits "JerryC" with the arangement. It is actually "Jerryl" in an odd font on the origional video.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=10544788731712285

Posted by: Curt at June 7, 2006 04:46 AM

Whoops! It is actually JerryC. www.jerryc.tw

Another interesting guitar guy is Zack Kim. www.zackkim.com

Posted by: Curt at June 7, 2006 04:59 AM

There are a lot of copycat performances on google video. Just search "Cannon D" and you'll see a lot of partials and different attempts at this particular arrangement.

I agree that it's good stuff :)

Posted by: Chris Frazier at June 7, 2006 08:40 AM

I played this song for my sister's wedding... at one point I had the whole piece memorized for the organ.

More info on the song at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachelbel's_canon

And you'll see JerryC listed at the bottom.

I still prefer it when played on piano or electronic organ though!

Posted by: Wim at June 9, 2006 04:38 PM