If you like Pachelbel's Canon in D......

[luvmyfam444]

My bridesmaids also walked down to this 13 years ago! And I still LOVE this song - my favorite ever!

I can remember watching it on an old GE lightbulb commercial where an artist was painting a mother & daughter using the soft glow of the lightbulb & that was the song playing - I never forgot that song.....

 

[Rella Bella]

Thank you so much for sharing this!

I happen to love it... but I also love to laugh!
My fav choir piece this year is "The First Noel" sung to Pachelbels,
it's really beautiful.

 

[nomie74]

That was too funny!

 

[thewishfire]

That was great!!

 

[pooksma]

Too funny! My bridesmaids walked down the aisle to Pachebel's Canon in D- I listened to about 100 different versions before I found one I really loved. Now I'll hear it in everything!!

Mine too!!! Now I'm thinking holy crap I have scarred these people for life throught the beauty of Pachebel!

 

[Scornelius]

My husband I are are both music geeks so this left us in absolute hysterics. I was hoping he'd mention that stupid vitamine c song!

 

[briar_rose_59]

I totally agree! I never noticed how much those chords are used in modern music. Now I probably will not stop noticing.

Ditto! That whole sequence was freakishly hilarious though!!!

 

[Deb in IA]

That was hilarious!!

Our DD played a piano quintet version of Pachelbel Canon a few years ago. And he's right - piano 5 only played those 8 notes throughout the entire song . . . D A B F#/ G D G A

And I had heard someone else talking on Public Radio about how all of music is built on those 8 chords - weird, huh?

 

[Fitswimmer]

EXCELLENT!!

I had a music teacher in HS that told us you could learn a few chords and play just about every song on the radio-he was right!!!

 

[Golf4food]

Hilarious. Love it. Music majors have long know those things, but to hear someone put it into a comedy routine with actual singing and playing is just plain funny.

I wouldn't allow us to use the Cannon in D at our wedding. We had an arrangement of Bach's "Jesu" for harp and horn quartet instead. I mostly can't stand Pachelbel. But then, I'm not a huge fan of "simple" classical music anway - give me the loud, heavy, complex stuff from the late 1800s or newer any day.

I love the "VH1 loves the 1790's" line. Now when is there going to be a "Pop Up Video"?

 

[Golf4food]

And I had heard someone else talking on Public Radio about how all of music is built on those 8 chords - weird, huh?

Not ALL music is built on those 8 chords, but it is a very common progression in western art music (and hence adapted into western pop music).

I had a music teacher in HS that told us you could learn a few chords and play just about every song on the radio-he was right!!!

That's because so many "rock" players start out with so little skill or real musical knowledge... they write songs built around the four or five chords they can play and go from there. The good bands are the ones that learn more than just those basics. Sadly, many never do.

 

[Cindy's Mom]

Hilarious. Love it. Music majors have long know those things, but to hear someone put it into a comedy routine with actual singing and playing is just plain funny.

I wouldn't allow us to use the Cannon in D at our wedding. We had an arrangement of Bach's "Jesu" for harp and horn quartet instead. I mostly can't stand Pachelbel. But then, I'm not a huge fan of "simple" classical music anway - give me the loud, heavy, complex stuff from the late 1800s or newer any day.

I love the "VH1 loves the 1790's" line. Now when is there going to be a "Pop Up Video"?

I'm not a music major, nor have I ever claimed to be one, but I even noticed that Pachelbel's Canon in D's musical chords are used in other styles of music.

Funny, cuz I wouldn't allow any Bach at my wedding, now that is too "simple" for our taste.

WOW, its just amazing how you can bash so many people, all in one post....BRAVO!!

 

[Deb in IA]

WOW, its just amazing how you can bash so many people, all in one post....BRAVO!!

By the way, I KNOW that not ALL music is based on that progression. That is a hyperbole - an exaggeration used for comic effect.

And I'm not a music major either - but I took 9 years of piano lessons, including theory and composition.

 

[holbear]

Thanks for posting that; it was great!

 

[Mrs.Toad]

"I don't even go to Taco Bell anymore, because it sounds too close."



Loved it!

 

[1rockinmamato2]

OMG! That was hilarious! Thank you for posting this. I'll have to show it to DH because he loves Canon in D too.

I love Trans-siberian Orchestra's "Christmas Canon" - the children's choir version, not the one where the groupie is singing.

 

[1rockinmamato2]

That's because so many "rock" players start out with so little skill or real musical knowledge... they write songs built around the four or five chords they can play and go from there. The good bands are the ones that learn more than just those basics. Sadly, many never do.

I'm all for the rock, even the songs written by some of the less-talened songwriters. But, I'm a fan of some very good writers and musicians.

I'd love for some of today's youth hear something like Lindsey Buckingham's acoustic version of "Go Insane" just once. Better yet, let them watch him play this song. It's amazing what that man can do with a guitar!

 

[Talking Hands]

Pachebel Cannon in D. First duet my daughters ever played at the ages of 9 and 5. Wish I had videotaped it. I hear it so often and can sing it in my head. Can you tell I am an old Suzuki Mom

 

[Talking Hands]

That was hilarious!!

Our DD played a piano quintet version of Pachelbel Canon a few years ago. And he's right - piano 5 only played those 8 notes throughout the entire song . . . D A B F#/ G D G A

And I had heard someone else talking on Public Radio about how all of music is built on those 8 chords - weird, huh?

The first time my youngest played it on viola that was all she played. THE 8 NOTES. She was so happy when she got to the actuall piece in her Suzuki book so she could stop playing just THE 8 NOTES

 

[RoyalCanadian]

I have a CD with nothing but about 20 different artists doing Pachelbel's Canon. I hate walking in to those nature stores in the shopping malls because they all seem to be playing Canon in D.

As for the chord progression in pop music -- one of the pieces on that CD utilizes "Earth Angel" as a descant for Canon in D. It's a hauntingly beautiful rendition. He's right, the song follows us everywhere.