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  • lmao 7.5 million, except he re-uploaded it and now its like 1m

  • cuz jerryC is a douch

  • what they mean? fine fingers?

  • 86 million views??!!

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  • guitar90 is not Lim Jeung Hyun

  • man the composer for this was jerryc and not her!! but funtwo is better than jerryc

  • hey wrong interview cnn its supposed to be jerry c

    if jerry c didn't play this funtwo will be useless it supposed to be jerry c is to be interviewed!

  • @reikivat

    Hey come on, don't overlook the fact that BOTH Jerry C. and Funtwo deserve a lot of credit.

    Music is not something static that exists to be played in one way, and one way only. In fact, I think that was the main point Jerry C. made by arranging Pachelbel's "Cannon in D" for the electric guitar in the first place. Jerry C. certainly deserves a lot of credit for his arrangement of this piece. But so does Funtwo for his beautiful interpretation of Jerry C.'s arrangement.

  • He is ok

  • hes over rated

  • It's a god damn shame he isn't pursuing music as a career. His parents probably don't approve of music as a career choice...

  • If he doesn't play,no one should.This guy was born to be a guitarist.

  • sorry but this guy is getting to much Credit for this !!

  • y isnt jerryc honored like this??

  • Agreed.

  • because he posted it with a less commonly searched name but funtwo posted it he named it guitar so it spread much faster

  • @TheIttoHimself cuz this guy played it better lol and he was way younger

  • @TheIttoHimself

    IKRRR

  • 7.5 million views... haha man, that video has gotta be near 70 million views by now...

  • @gordo39432 got 74m atm:)

  • that video has 75 million views at the moment. but guitar90 is not the one playing it, its funtwo.

  • @gordo39432 85.8 million views now...one year later.

  • @gordo39432 91 mil now

  • The most retarded female voice.... EVAH!

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  • "I love you tube, very intertaining"

  • did that reporter say "I love U2" at the end of the video? LOL

  • that's because the reporter is South Korean lol

  • dammnit im tired of you idiots saying jerry c made canon he fucking didnit canon is an old symphony song 400 plus years old jerry c is not 400 yrs old douche bag so stfu

  • Lol that comment made me laugh.

  • correct, canon was composed by joanna pachelbel, i'm not sure when though

  • he made canon rock though

  • "arranged"

  • no word of jerryC

  • yeah =[

  • he's asian

  • FFfffffuntwo ffffinaly ffffff...

  • hyunjunkimo11...JerryC is the original canon rock player and he is also the one who make canon rock...They are totally differents..funtwo just copying...JERRYC ROCK!!!!

    PEACE...

    Sorry 4 the bad english..

  • joanna pachelbel composed it

  • why her pronuciation of his korean name was really good. compared to other americans..

  • JK--

  • for the idiots who dont know , johann pachelbel made it a loooooooooong tikme ago then jerry chang made a rock version and funtwo made it popular

  • why did guitar90 grabbed the video ? -.-

  • wow, even in a news broadcast he still got the credit for making canon rock

  • why does it skip?

  • love youtube, very entertaining

    ... still kind of an awkward comment

  • she said love youtube but it sounded it like she said love you too haha

  • no dumbshit jerry did that

  • You know, Pachelbel Cannon is a really really freaking old song... was first composed for orchestras a very long time ago. Funtwo took it and made it into a rock version, with all the pinch harmonics and really fast picking.

  • yes everybody knows that canon is a really old classical tune by pachelbel and you're wrong, jerry c was the one who arranged the rock version of canon and funtwo made the famous cover of the jerry c version

  • omg! i want to marry him!!!

  • rightio....?

  • Fun Facts:

    1. The New York Times "Reporter" Virginia Heffernan actually had the wrong guy. She thought Funtwo was an American kid called Alfonso, and even published this on the New York Times website.

    2. Virginia had to be convinced she had the wrong guy. I also tried to point out that FunTwo was just covering JerryC, and JerryC was the real talent, but she didn't care about that - FunTwo & YouTube were "the story".

    3. JerryC posted on GoogleVideo. Had he used Youtube, nobody would know Funtwo

  • Actually, I don't know what the fuss is all about. He did properly gave credit to the original arranger of this piece. So, it is not like he is taking credit for writing it. He just posted a great video that will go down as a youtube classic. Will probably hit 100 million views before 2009 is out.

  • He didn't even write the fucking song.

  • so what this song writed johann pachelbel and he died 300 years ago and jerry c made this version

  • This kinda pisses me off, he's pretty good but 1. He didn't even write that fucking song. 2. He's pretty sloppy 3. I haven't seen a GOOD song he's written, it honestly just confuses me how this guy is famous, it's bullshit really. And no i'm not jealous or anything, I just hate how this guys soo big, but he's nothing special!

  • 1st: He just posted it up to youtube for nothing special. 2nd: 4.7? million people made him popular so thats something special. 3rd: Whats ur propblem RT7? 4th: You just made him a lil more popular by posting ur comment. lol

  • I know I probably come across as an ass, but it just bothers me that lots of people try so fuckign hard writing their own music, trying to be different and perfect their art, and they get no where! But then this guy, comes along with a cover, which is played pretty good, but nothing special, yet is treated as a guitar god? he very well may be a guitar god, but I haven't seen one video or performance of him yet where I would believe that. I jsut think he's over-rated and nothing special.

  • no but it is talent to play that song, it is a hard song thats called talent

  • In all honestly, "talent" has been thrown around loosely here. If you can play a song, on time, and properly sure you've got talent. The song itself, depending on experience in guitar, is not TOO difficult, nor easy, but all I tried to stress is that HE didn't write it, he played it pretty sloppy, and everyone thinks he's this amazing guitar god, when there are sooo many more amazing guitarists that aren't known at all. That's all my arguement was.

  • yeah he could not have writen it. he isnt that good

  • Thank GOD haha, the one person who finally doesn't put up a wall of defense and has common sense haha =]

    Man everyone is just obsessed with him, like he's good, but he's so overrated for playing a song he didn't write, and he played it, in my opinion worse than JerryC (Original Transcriber), he made lots of mistakes on his sweeps and other things.! haha

  • HAHA yeah jerry c is much better, i dont know how this guy got so much views. good song though

  • Can't argue with that, ROFL =]

  • thats his life

  • Was this really self-taught??? Or did he take damn lessons? Guitar90 you freakin poser...

  • if he plays at 50-60% playing, what does that make the rest of us? T_T

  • lolololol

  • That it consolidator

  • Dang this is old!!!! the old youtube player, and they said 7.5 millinon, he has over 54 million now!

  • for some reason i'm not surprised that he's korean/chinese/what ever nationallity he is (i don't know)

  • so true hahah

  • information technology??then , we have something in common, hope, one day we work togather and then i will learn guitar from this polite humble genius

  • I have seen tons of players performing Canon. He is the best of All!!

  • come on jerryC owns that song :O

  • stocks are up =D XD

  • hah i wish

  • Cool video.

  • lol 7.5 million views? i know this video is old but try 55 million

  • I don't see what's so big about being self taught? That's the only way to learn guitar if you'd wish to become better than average on it.

    Self taught people learns the most.

    I'm self taught.

  • Rifyo it depends what you mean by self taught. some self taught people only teach themselves techniques and learn how to play other peoples' or bands' songs. if you are gonna be self taught, you need to learn other things about the guitar and how it works musically so you can be creative and original.

  • hes been playing only 6 years?!?!

    crazy

  • this video is 2 years old. he's been playing 8 years now.

  • yeah!!!

  • that bird who speaks at the beginning sounds like jimmy from southpark lmao

  • lol you're right it does

  • is he moving to new zealand?

  • He gose to school in New Zealand..

  • He's studyin there if i'm not wrong.

  • he is in nz lol.... go to campbell live for the real thing

  • rip off twat

  • funtwo plays it excellent better than others 'Canon' by Johan Chriftoph Pachelbel.. I am Johan_Chriftoph_Pachelbel Yahoo.. I Compose Psychedelic Music with my Cubase Music Program..

  • funtwo is my friend i chat in Yahoo sometimes rare i have not much time i write songs and compose Psychedelic Music with my Cubase Music Program Johan_Chriftoph_Pachelbel..

  • didn't it say that in funtwo's video it was arranged by jerryc? if yes, doesn't that mean that jerryc helped him? so that means they both own the video

  • no jerry C is the original owner of the song he just got luckier :3

  • I was talking about JerryC's video, not Funtwo's.

  • watch jerryc's vid, there is not a single mistake, and he puts so much feeling into it. plus he doesen't need a gold guitar to get him famous.

  • gold guitar? o.o that's not the reason he's famous

  • it is a badass guitar though...

  • JerryC isn't even playing in his video, he "lipsyncs" it, with his original song in the background. Listen to it carefully, you'll notice it's identical to the song.

    Also, there are quite a few mistakes in his song as well, as it wasn't really mixed and mastered professionally. It's amazing how his basement experiment got so much fame from Funtwo's video.

    It's a shame for JerryC though, he wrote the arrangement but funtwo takes all the credit :/

  • 7.5 million views 2 years ago, 60 MILL NOW!

  • fuck yeah!

  • 52 mill ;)

  • almost 53mil

  • wtf me and my friend would pwn him !!!!! \m/,

  • He is such a simple guy and doesnt show off at all although he's very talented, we should all respect him and wish him luck for the future !!

  • cool

  • Who could ever argue this guy has talent? Who cares how he learned? Very gifted!

  • more like 52,390,054 views now

  • I like the comment at 0:06. Feels like the interview to come should be regarded as extremely credible =)

  • you have to love how she says that he claims to have taught himself. Notice how the actual video which now has like 50m+ views says he learned it all from some online guitar school lol.

  • it's like 52m now lol

  • yeah i just looked it up today and i was like holy s***! wow i've never seen a video get that many views!

  • this guy sucked live with Satch, he messed up sooo much on that video. I bet it took him months of filming to get his one Canon Rock vid right. He should never be famous for anything if he plays even less accurately than me.

  • lets see some of your videos

  • I don't feel like playing something just for youtube. It tends to make people bicker and argue and I don't want to have to be the source of it, so that's why I never post videos, but everybody needs to realize that this guy isn't really above average for the 6 years of practice he had. He is just an average guitar player for the time he has put in. Besides, the video where he played with Satch was so incredibly messed up. Plus, he didn't compose any of his pieces.

  • Well, he did rate himself to be only a 5 or 6 out of 10, so that would fit in the "average" category. But average or not, he's still entertaining except I don't like the fact that he gets more attention than the original composers.

  • cause he's actualy alive

  • that's kind of what I mean, but he isn't that great with accuracy either. Yeah, he is entertaining, but that's not what makes you good, being a perfectionist and an innovator makes you good.

  • ya but its good that atleast the world recognised him as a guitarist, i believe he just posted the canon vid just like the rest o fus did, and with god's will people like him so good for him, and its good exposure also marketing for him too i dont feel jealous in fact its good to see someones achievement

  • 7.5m?

    even on the vid it says 44m

  • uh you cant read at the time the vid was posted for 3 months only. tsk tsk

  • actually 2 years and 3 months

  • i mean at that time it was only up for 3 months

  • Actually on that particular video (Which had obviously been uploaded by someone else, had 444k views. Go back to school and learn to count. Thanks.

  • I think it's frustrating how Funtwo gets more attention than Jerry C, regarding the fact that he gained his fame from covering Jerry C's version of Canon.

    Not dissing Funtwo, he's damn good, it's just a bit sad.

  • mattrachh and a hand full of other people too.

  • yeah damnit he gets to play with joe satriani as well

  • rofl i love how she's talking about how good he is, and at the bottom the marquee is talking about "blast kills 11, injures 7"

  • He is AWESOME!

  • lol 7.5, wow now its like 52 and there are alot of versions

  • who the fuck is that narrator haha, she sound like she has down syndrome!

  • u think the guitarist is good.... think about how skilled the person was who tracked him... using fingers as evidence? that's what u called a skilled tracker

  • lol 7.5 most popular lol thats laughable now.

  • Lots of asian countries give the mindset of working harder.. I think that's why many of them are successful, since they will get extremely good and like he said, only rate himself 60/100. That's why so many asians are significantly more talented than other races, I think.

  • And now 2 years later it has 51,716,052 views! I don't think he should worry about his other career at this point, he could fill a stadium of people wanting to hear him play now.

  • 7.5 mil after only 3 months

  • The CNN video is fake, right?

    "Most popular ever"?

    I'm not even sure what to make of that, grammatically speaking.

  • it was the most pupular video back then in 2005...

  • I know right, retarded news reporter? LOL

    Funtwo rocks, he should make his own youtube account and have that video switchhed over with all the views.. since it is his

  • yep. lots of ppl are uploading his videos.

  • u have to accept the fact that hes famous now

  • I know he's really good. It's just that he gets at least ten times the credit that he deserves from his level of talent. He almost always plays things that he didn't write. Anyone can play the stuff he plays with a whole lot of practice, and then probably more accurate than him if you work on it. It's the writing skill that separates the men from the boys, or the "guitarists" from the "guitar players" respectively.

  • That is 100% true, and unfortunately most people who don't play an instrument don't realize it. I'm gonna get flamed for this, but the song really isn't hard at all. Funtwo, though, does play the song exceptionally well, with few mistakes. But thousands of other guitarists could play just as good as he can in short time.

    I honestly think the real reason he's so famous is because his video was uploaded while youtube was still young, and he was the first to cover this song.

  • noooooo first cover was by jerry C

  • Haha naw man.

    A cover is when an artist plays someone else's song. Since JerryC created the arrangement, he would simply be playing his own song.

    Funtwo, I believe, was the first to cover it.

  • you know he didnt even want or expect the fame and this much attention when he put his video up. He is just not a serious player even though he enjoys playing guitar. He dosent brag about the fame. He even said that hes seen many better players than himself in Seoul, Korea where he lives in. He is a modest guy who just likes to play guitar as a hobby just like millions out there and ppl happened to like his performance on YouTube. He dosent claim to be a great anything. Thats the bottom line.

  • yeah I appreciate his humility on the issue for sure. I am just mad at the media for overblowing him just like with Dragonforce, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Slipknot, My Chemical Romance, and Avenged Sevenfold.

  • sorry scarter180 but i know Avenged and slipknot befor i saw them in the TV or in the radio..

    but when i listened to them and i liked their music.. dont judge every thing on the media.. btw i agree with you on Dragonforce, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus ,My Chemical Romance =D they are over rated

  • I would definitely put Avenged Sevenfold and Slipknot on the same bandwagon of mainstream media overrated sellouts, but they are more talented than the rest of those mentioned, particularly A7X, although Synester really isn't that great.

  • you need an eye exam

  • Only 7.5 milions? That was a long time ago...

  • more that 7.5. Go and look up guitar.

  • You think I didn't know that?

  • 7.5 now its like 50mil XDD

  • No, there are not a tonne of better guitar players on youtube. There are a tonne of good guitar players, but not many that are better than him.

  • Jerry C is just as good as Funtwo

    give him credit

  • Isnt JerryC and Funtwo the same persons?

  • nope, JerryC is the one that made the canon rock version, Funtwo is the player who got so famous on the song

  • amazing.

    but the woman's voice is annoyyyyyyyyyyyyying

  • agreed sounds like she has a stuffy nose lol

  • I just watched 1.29 ten times

  • So that's what his hair looks like. XD

  • Asian guys rock!Yes so talented and humble.

  • He is freakin good i must say! He is asian, what a suprise! ;-)

  • this woman's voice pisses me off

  • omg this guy is soooo cute

  • I can just imagine talking this woman and having her sPitting all over me when she Pronounces her Ps.

  • That woman's voice is annoying. He lives in Auckland, N.Z - cool haha. He's awesome, he was on our local extra news program, Campbell Live a few days ago. He's so awesome - well grounded and humble.

    xO

  • thats right white ppl....praise that korean guy /:d

  • Trisha takanawa From family guy lol