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Pachelbel Rant
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
Brought up in threads about chord progressions and musical copyright as the funny canonical version of the idea.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- RobPRocks
- Topic
- pachelbel chord progression
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 10
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Related: [VIDEO] - Rob Paravorian on how so many songs have the same chord sequence as Pachelbel's Canon in D
lotharbot on Hacker News · 2012-06
In I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found.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 …
naravara on Hacker News · 2019-03
In How did classical music in movies and TV become synonymous with villainy?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]
aidenn0 on Hacker News · 2023-11
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