Pachelbel’s Canon on Guitar

August 27, 2006 | By Matt Craven | Filed Under Videos

Today’s New York Times highlights the cover of Pachelbel’s Canon by a Youtube guitarist named funtwo:

Eight months ago a mysterious image showed up on YouTube, the video-sharing site that now shows more than 100 million videos a day. A sinewy figure in a swimming-pool-blue T-shirt, his eyes obscured by a beige baseball cap, was playing electric guitar. Sun poured through the window behind him; he played in a yellow haze. The video was called simply â€œguitar.â€? A black-and-white title card gave the performerâ€™s name as funtwo.

This video, not to put too fine a point on it, rocks…

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About the author: Matt Craven is the former editor & publisher of The Blog Herald. Currently, Matt is the co-founder of Bryghtpath LLC, a boutique web 2.0 firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He blogs at Telegraphik & The Blog Herald. You can follow him on Twitter.

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8 Responses to “Pachelbel’s Canon on Guitar”

John Evans (SYNTAGMA) on August 28th, 2006 5:17 am

Wonderful. Thanks for sharing, Matt.
Pachelbel’s Canon on YouTube Â» Classy Classical - Symphony Music, Baroque, Choral, Opera on August 28th, 2006 7:52 am

[…] Hear it on The Blog Herald. […]
preacher on August 28th, 2006 4:56 pm

Someone get this kidan agent!
Matt on August 28th, 2006 8:53 pm

If you search for “Canon” on YouTube, the writer of this rock version plays it as well. This is just a cover of it.
Bob the slob on August 29th, 2006 10:53 am

There’s about a million amateurs who play at this level. What the hell is wrong with the media????? This style of 80s neo-classical is over 20 years old, too!
rachael on August 31st, 2006 10:14 am

AMAZING this kid will go far. don’t care if it is a copy he very good. XX
Ekka on September 1st, 2006 4:14 am

He’s good, but I picked up some quite obvious mistakes towards the end of the piece.

Given a few more years and some discipline, he’ll be great.
Balena on September 5th, 2006 6:51 pm

Well.. If you wanna see something, here is the SAME SHIT but by another guy in Taiwan supposedly. Thing is that all is just dubbing. NONE OF THEM REALLY DO IT:

http://haltingpoint.blogspot.com/2006/08/rock-version-of-pachabels-canon-in-d.html

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