Canon Rock is the rock version of Pachelbel's Canon in D arranged by Jerry C. The term is reviving the Baroque-aged music into modern time by making it rock. In my case, I never know Pachelbel's Canon in D existing until I heard the Canon Rock version of Jerry C performed by FunTwo. Canon in D is very popular as wedding song and it very lovely more than any other arrangement, beautiful than rock. But of course as a music lover, it has a wide range of field and I'm not saying that Canon Rock is not that good at all, especially when my veins is rushing by modern music of what we called rock.
Since then, Canon Rock became popular to cover and post a video on Youtube, even the most popular guitarist from South Korea, Sungha Jung covered it. Actually it was all started after Jerry C arranged it, FunTwo covered the piece and post in local website on South Korea and it was not so acknowledge until a man with a username guitar90 post it on Youtube with a title of "Guitar" with a remarks of "this guy iz great!!!"
That video earn 90 million views as of June 2011 be the 4th most viewed video on Youtube at that time. But due to some commercial ads and spam content, it was removed on YouTube and until now we never know who is the man behind that username that made FunTwo so famous more than Jerry C, the original composer of Canon Rock.
How come that the cover video earned more views than the original? Based on my own perspectives about the case, it is because the title of the video, "Guitar" and since Youtube's content rank high on search engine at that time when you search for the word Guitar on Google, that video appears on top result. Can you ever imagine how many people in the world make a query for the word "guitar" So even the video is irrelevant with the query, technically user will click it as it is on the top page result and from it will earn views and become popular considering a video of a guy with a top speed finger dexterity playing a very beautiful piece.
Now that already given you some facts about Canon Rock, I can now say to you the best Canon Rocker for me.
Below is the original video from Jerry C the composer of Canon Rock. This is also consider the father of all Canon Rock cover video. I strongly believe that once in a life of FunTwo also dropped his 5 minutes here or even more for practicing his cover. Sadly the quality is poor and I can't see any updated video from JerryC playing Canon Rock. Anyway like what I've said you are always a perfectionist of your own works. So this is the most perfect Canon Rock ever.
This is the copy of what guitar90 posted years ago and this time, FunTwo himself posted it on YouTube. Like many users in YouTube they are all agreed that this is the best 240p video. Currently, you can find more of FunTwo's video playing Canon Rock on YouTube with high quality.
This is the cover of Canon Rock played by Sungha Jung. One of the most respected fingerstyle guitar players around the world. In this video he added a caption of him playing electric guitar for a couple of months ago. Yes as fingerstyle guitarist, you will oftensee him playing with acoustic guitar. Like the two Canon Rockers, he has also the dexterity definitely learned it from playing acoustic guitar where you need to press it with speed and clarity.
And the best Canon Rocker for me is FunTwo or Lim Jeong-hyun in real name not only because of his speed but also the clarity within notes. You will hear from his video on how he liven up every note, adding some spice without messing up the original version of JerryC. Though I said about the confusing title of "guitar" on his video on why he got such million views. Actually he really deserves for it and I believe not only me acknowledged that since even great guitarist collaborated with him in playing Canon Rock. It is a surprise that he has a guitar session with Joe Satriani playing Canon Rock. It is like saying of, that is not how you compose it, but what really matter is how you play it.
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