Canon Rock by guitar whiz
Hey guys, why hasn't anyone mentioned this? I have to read it from the New York Times?!
Article by Virginia Heffernan here. (Need registration.) Excerpt below.
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 “guitar.” A black-and-white title card gave the performer’s name as funtwo.
The piece that funtwo played with mounting dexterity was an exceedingly difficult rock arrangement of Pachelbel’s Canon, the composition from the turn of the 18th century known for its solemn chord progressions and its overexposure at weddings. But this arrangement, attributed on another title card to JerryC, was anything but plodding: it required high-level mastery of a singularly demanding maneuver called sweep-picking.
Virginia Heffernan's blog posts about funtwo here. Might need registration, but maybe not..
aditedit Oh, IHT has it up too. Fancy that, it used to be WP and IHT but looks like IHT has a wider circle of friends now.. No registration needed to read at IHT.
Article by Virginia Heffernan here. (Need registration.) Excerpt below.
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 “guitar.” A black-and-white title card gave the performer’s name as funtwo.
The piece that funtwo played with mounting dexterity was an exceedingly difficult rock arrangement of Pachelbel’s Canon, the composition from the turn of the 18th century known for its solemn chord progressions and its overexposure at weddings. But this arrangement, attributed on another title card to JerryC, was anything but plodding: it required high-level mastery of a singularly demanding maneuver called sweep-picking.
Virginia Heffernan's blog posts about funtwo here. Might need registration, but maybe not..
aditedit Oh, IHT has it up too. Fancy that, it used to be WP and IHT but looks like IHT has a wider circle of friends now.. No registration needed to read at IHT.