Chris Hobson
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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
For the first half of my life I was pretty unaware of classical music while being vaguely aware that there might be something that I was missing. I liked pop and later discovered prog and various kinds of adult oriented rock. I got to know classical music when I met my wife. Her dad loves classical music and knows a lot about it and has lots of albums so she made me a classical mix tape. So, from there I discovered Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovski, Bach, Handel, and a few more of the well known ones. Shortly after that I started taking piano lessons. Since I really hate piano arrangements of pop songs, I leaned towards classical tunes there as well. Over time I tended to gravitate towards Baroque music, particularly JS Bach. Strange then that Pachelbel's Canon in D slipped under my radar for about thirty years.
We got a new Sky box that meant that I could watch You Tube videos on the real telly. I watched a lot of videos about pop songs that are based on classical themes. Lover's Concerto, A Groovy Kind Of Love, Seven Nation Army being some of the obvious ones. Among these were videos about the huge significance of the Canon and the fact that the chord sequence is really ubiquitous in modern pop music. Still fairly oblivious, I Googled the music for the Amazon Prime ad that was in fact Concrete Jungle by Christine and the Queens. This is a song performed over an orchestral arrangement of the Canon, there are actually quite a few of these. You Tube's algorithm then took me to a Japanese TV ad set at a wedding in which the bride's father has learned to play the Cannon on the piano just so that he can play it for his daughter on her big day.
Now I have decided that I want to learn to play it too. To help me I downloaded lots of different versions of the piece and listened to them. Digging through my pile of music books I found two different arrangements of the piece, both just over thirty bars long. My plan is to learn to play both versions and to splice them together to create a version that is unique to me.
We got a new Sky box that meant that I could watch You Tube videos on the real telly. I watched a lot of videos about pop songs that are based on classical themes. Lover's Concerto, A Groovy Kind Of Love, Seven Nation Army being some of the obvious ones. Among these were videos about the huge significance of the Canon and the fact that the chord sequence is really ubiquitous in modern pop music. Still fairly oblivious, I Googled the music for the Amazon Prime ad that was in fact Concrete Jungle by Christine and the Queens. This is a song performed over an orchestral arrangement of the Canon, there are actually quite a few of these. You Tube's algorithm then took me to a Japanese TV ad set at a wedding in which the bride's father has learned to play the Cannon on the piano just so that he can play it for his daughter on her big day.
Now I have decided that I want to learn to play it too. To help me I downloaded lots of different versions of the piece and listened to them. Digging through my pile of music books I found two different arrangements of the piece, both just over thirty bars long. My plan is to learn to play both versions and to splice them together to create a version that is unique to me.
(didn’t have a church wedding, got married in a hotel so had to sort the music out ourselves)
