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Revision as of 14:01, 15 June 2009
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"Canon Rock" is a neo-classical metal arrangement of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D major by the Taiwanese musician and composer Jerry Chang (JerryC). The composition contains a variety of melodic licks (more suitable for the advanced guitarists), showing Jerry's unique way of phrasing and his finger dexterity. The piece became popular on the internet after a video of JerryC playing the piece was posted online. The rendition has been featured in newspapers, magazines, and television shows. The re-arrangement was composed within two weeks.
Covers
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Nick Russ did the very best version of this. Unfortunately, his lead fell out 3 times during the most recent performance, causing the audience to stone Nick off the stage. He has since vowed never to play it again.
The very first Canon Rock was composed by a Korean band called BanYa who were famous for their Pump it up songs like Beethoven Virus. The most famous of the covers is by a South Korean guitarist named Jeong-Hyun Lim, who is more popularly known by his internet alias, "funtwo". On the site the-top-tens.com, it is ranked 110th on the list of "All Time Greatest Songs".[1] This song is also very popular for covers by many on video-sharing sites such as Youtube and Google Video. A cover has also been made by Korean violinist Kim Ji Youn (YouTube username sori1004jy), who plays it on her electric violin (her account has since been suspended due to copyright issues unrelated to the Canon video, but many users have reuploaded most of her work). There is also a mixed version of both Funtwo's and sori1004jy's covers.
Tablature
Tablature for JerryC's and MattRach's versions of the piece is available[2][3].