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Pachelbel Rant

RobPRocks · 16.9M views · 2006-11-21 · 5:15

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Overview

Comedian and cellist Rob Paravonian rants about having to play Pachelbel's Canon in D, and shows how many pop songs reuse its chord progression. It was recorded live at Penn State.

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Brought up in threads about chord progressions and musical copyright as the funny canonical version of the idea.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2012–2023

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Stand-up & sketch comedyMusic theory, synthesis & productionMusic performance & songs
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aidenn0 · 2023-11 · Recommendation

I like the live version of that better[1], and while the Axis of Awesome wins in the shear number of songs, I like Rob P's presentation[2] of the same idea more. 1: [LINK] 2: [VIDEO]

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naravara · 2019-03 · Recommendation

There was a relevant and entertaining stand-up bit about this: [VIDEO] This might partly be why people love the music they heard as teens first. I hear a lot of stuff now that just seems like riffs on stuff I’ve heard before. I don’t have the nostalgia of first being exposed to it in my formative years to carry me through.

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lotharbot · 2012-06 · Recommendation

Related: [VIDEO] - Rob Paravorian on how so many songs have the same chord sequence as Pachelbel's Canon in D

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