Until a few minutes ago, I’d never heard of Johann Pachelbel. Sad, but true…. and that’s why I’ve got to share this gem of a song that Pachelbel wrote some 300 years ago! But first, a few words on how I stumbled onto him in the first place…
Earlier today I was searching for the chords of a Christian spiritual that’d been playing on in my head all day long. Now, as usual, one click led to another and I found myself at the Your Chords website – which boasts of itself “as one of the largest guitar chords archives on the Internet”, and – it offers more than 200,000 songs with chords and tablatures from 15,000 artistes from all over the world.
Now, if you sign up as a user (free), you can also upload songs, videos, etc. etc to Your Chords. They even offer a free Guitar Course (!) – which would come in very handy for a frustrated, guitar hero wannabe like me! So I signed up for it and took up the first lesson – how to tune your guitar properly. Pretty useful stuff, especially for a clueless guitar player! Then as part of the lesson, they provided a link to this YouTube video, which triggered all my excitement about Johann Pachelbel. Watch this performance of JP’s Canon in D major by one guitar hero!
That got me intrigued as to who this Johan Pachelbel fellow was all about. A few more clicks of the mouse and I found another Youtube video where the London Symphony Orchestra play JP’s original version of the Canon in D major.
Watch the Canon go off here! It’s good for the soul!
Man…. I can say One Cannon, Two Masterpieces! Now, this German dude has got me all hooked up. A little late maybe, but who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks! Wiki has more on him here. Check it out. It’s worth knowing.
Now, where is my old Kapok?!
