Canon Rock Definition

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Executive Summary about Canon Rock by Wikipedia

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 song became popular on the internet after a video of JerryC playing the song was posted online. Canon Rock has been covered many times on various internet communities such as YouTube and Google Video.

Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last

Executive Summary about Canon Rock by Virginia Heffernan

A sinewy figure in a swimming-pool-blue T-shirt, his eyes obscured by a beige baseball cap, was playing electric guitar. The video was called simply “guitar.” A black-and-white title card gave the performer’s name as funtwo.

Guitar sites, MySpace pages and a Polish video site called Smog linked to it, and viewers thundered to YouTube to watch it. If individual viewings were shipped records, “guitar” would have gone gold almost instantly.

By following a series of clues on JerryC’s message board and various “Canon Rock” videos, I was able to trace funtwo’s video to Jeong-Hyun Lim, a 23-year-old Korean who taught himself guitar over the course of the last six years. An On Oct. 23, 2005, he uploaded his “Canon Rock.” video to a Korean music site called Mule.

Over the past year, as JerryC’s and funtwo’s videos have been broadly distributed on every major video-sharing site, hundreds of other guitarists have tried their hands at JerryC’s “Canon Rock.” A Malaysian guitarist claiming erroneously to be funtwo briefly set up a MySpace page then shut it down. And this month, in Washington, a 12-year-old classical pianist named Alfonso Candra played “Canon Rock” for a small crowd at the Indonesian Embassy. He too claimed he was the guitarist in the “guitar” video.

That educational imperative is a big part of the “Canon Rock” phenomenon. In the YouTube guitar videos, however, technical accomplishment itself carries a strong emotional component. Mr. Lim’s fans said they watch his “Canon Rock” video daily, as it inspires them to work hard. Neither JerryC nor funtwo has a big recording contract.