Today, it's all about interesting music videos. First we will show how wild a electric guitar can go playing classical music and then a hilarious rant about famous Pachelbel's Canon in D. Then, a little oddity about the longest song ever, a six centuries long concert.
The video you have above (Frets on Fire version, 5:50) is a great example of how classical music can become new again. But the popularity of this song goes beyond classical concerts and kids showing off. As Rob Paravonian puts it in the following video, no matter what kind of music you hear, Pachelbel is hunting us all from the grave.
Josete tells us that John Cage (on the left) is quite a polyvalent artist who, among other revolutionary ideas, he conceived to use strange rythms, instruments and noises in his compositions. In fact, some of his songs are so strange that you wouldn't notice that the music is playing even. Don't believe me? Have a look at the BBC Symphonic Orchestra performing John Cage's 4:33 (6:29).
The story I want to tell you is the so called "SLSP (As SLow aS Possible)". The thing is that, apart the subtle title, he did not tell exactly the duration of the composition. So, hands at work, some musicians and philosophers with a lot of patiente and free time aimed at playing this composition throughout six centuries (639 years) and, to overcome the little nuisance of mortality, they built an automated organ inside an unused church. So long, that the two first notes lasted almost two years, each. For obvious reasons, there is no youtube video of the whole performance but Wikipedia offers the moment when the organ changed the tone in January 5, 2006.
BTW, there are so many good videos in YouTube of people playing wild songs ("Cliffs of Dover", 4:15), funny ("Daft Hands", 3:44) songs (the Manualist) and plain absurd (but catchy) songs (Mentos and Diet Coke, 2:58). I dare you to tell us your favourite ;-)
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Heavy and hardrock guitar players have been historically the best players. But for obvious reasons, in heavy, guitar is the maing character and sounds hard the most part of the song, many famous heavy guitar players have achieved virtuous skills not reachable for the rest of humans, specially in modern times.
ReplyDeleteIn spite of this, is also kown, that a great musician is more than a great typesetter (bad translation of "digitador") also has to transmit more than sound to the audience. This difference makes a guitar player as Jimmy Page, from Led Zeppelin, better than others, his technique is not perfect but thrills anyone with soul"
People can never grasp the difficulty of a task until they try it themselves. It's not the same, it's way easier than the real thing, but still have a look at the final solo of "Free Bird" in Guitar Hero (http://bit.ly/czAKPW). It might sound stupid but playing some songs in this game also "thrills my soul" ;-) BTW, next Rock Band has a version with a real guitar.
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