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Revision as of 09:32, 17 February 2008
"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 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. Canon Rock has been covered many times on various internet communities such as YouTube and Google Video. The arrangement was composed within two weeks.
Currently, JerryC is hosting lessons to teach Canon Rock to amateurs.
Covers
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". His video is the tenth most viewed video in YouTube history[1] with over 37.4 million views and counting.
Some other notable covers include versions by Learz,MattRach. Various other guitarists have covered the piece, and opinions vary as to which cover is best. People of various ages have covered Canon Rock, from age of 12 to even as old as 80. For the best example of this, there is a medley posted to Youtube in June, 2007 which features over two dozen different individuals playing this piece.
The piece has been covered on other instruments, such as the violin and piano. There have been covers using cell phones [1] [2] and guns [3] as well.
- Jeong-Hyun Lim on YouTube (funtwo) - 36,840,395 views (and an additional 4+ million views from other uploads)
- Learz on YouTube - 3,864,874 views (and an additional 220,000+ views from other uploads)
- MattRach on YouTube - 3,400,944 views (and an additional 5,000+ views from other uploads)
- Jerry Chang on YouTube (JerryC) - 2,339,271 views (and an additional 3+ million views from other uploads)
- 13 year old Korean on YouTube - 976,107 views
- Rainier on YouTube (theshredda) - 947,485 views
- MattRach (3rd attempt) on YouTube - 564,415
- Jeong-Hyun Lim on YouTube (funtwo, first attempt) - 480,015 views (and an additional 51,000+ views from other uploads)
- hellman on YouTube - 276,259 views
- Nick B. - 264,757 views (and an additional 300,000+ views from other uploads)