Antidote for Pachelbel's Rant by E and E Cello Music

[inugirl232]

insane cello solo ftw XD

[thejewelmaster]

Virtuoso MF!

[nybbleme]

I played violin but I always loved the cello as such a beautiful sounding instrument.

[tintindayzee]

That was amazing!!

[pinyao1]

What a difficult arrangement! Cellists will certainly not get bored with that! Frustrated, maybe, but not bored.

[seandeeify]

I try very hard to make my Pbass make sense now @ 50yo after 40 years of working, noodling, improv....blah....... Here is a GREAT bass part that moves me. Thank you.

Pachabell!!! Thank you too E and E Cello Music!

[Dewmeister14]

Congratulations. You discovered double stops.

Next phase: playing them in tune.

Rob's pachebel rant was great. And mostly true. It needs no antidote.

[didgeboy287]

Ha! Poor cellists and your repetitive classical parts. That's why I played percussion. We never got irritatingly repetitive pieces. cough. BOLERO. cough.

[Hikikomori013]

At first I thought it was going to be an exploration of the variations on the cello part, but them you started working in the violin and viola parts.

despite the complaints of those who have no videos uploaded, I thought it was pretty good.

[opticblaze147]

The idea was stupid but daym your good

[swimmingsharker]

So I'm a violinist/mandolinist by training, and this is hard to say: that was awesome. People can't understand an eloquent arrangement of good music.

[Miariisawesome]

ok, not great :(

As a cellist I probablly couldn't do better, but still nothing exeptional.

[tomview1]

This guy is a music teacher at best - no way does he paid to play like that.

Wannabe muso - shit! the longer it goes the worse it gets!!

[pinyao1]

@tomview1 You are half right. He is a music teacher. Click through to his bio. He is a cello professor. Also he used to be in major orchestras. I guess he does get paid. He plays it wonderfully.

[tomview1]

@pinyao1 that's because, those that can't, teach.

[alig9595]

He still only uses the 8 notes ranted abou!

[Nassia99]

A bit jerky for my tastes, but your playing is amazing :)

[EYEARHHH]

awesome made my hairs stand up

[RJK5000]

So the antidote is to be way better at cello ...

[pete275]

I don't get it. what's the "antidote" supposed to be?

[ThePete37]

@pete275 surely you jest.... 

[ThePete37]

@pete275 surely you jest...

[rjmma2]

this is amazing fair play to you my friend =]

[kitsunegirl14]

You make me proud to be a cellist.

[ldd114]

beautiful :D

[Nassia99]

A perfect demonstration on why cello is one of my favorite instruments. Right behind harp. Which I play, so I'm biased.

[vampjoseph11]

This is the best version I've heard yet!!

[Metatrongufi]

Bow!

[JumperFrank]

Sir, I loved it :')

thank you

[keahayn808]

I.LOVE.THIS

[4DodgeFamily1]

Very very very pretty!!!!!

[ImpliedBodyMan]

Do that in orchestra, be sent for a coffee.

[801knight]

Gifted!

[Nine20Eight]

Nice!

[1RavynSkye]

I play piano, and when I was still early in my music 'career' (such as it is), I would spend HOURS rearranging Pachelbel's canon in D and I came up with some great versions of the left hand (the part that a cello or bass plays in an orchestra) that kept it fresh, including thirds, fifths, and various breaking up of the quarter notes to sixteenth and changing the timing around, as well as hoping octaves and all kinds of gymnastics. Unfortunately you can't do that in an orchestra.

[TheMsSiren]

Awe Inspiring.... Brava....

[pacodog747]

Wonderful!

[imcontagious123]

Now I wish I played the cello. :)

[HardbeatAcolyte]

Fantastic :D

(Coincidentally I'm the 666th person to like this video)

[LieuFang]

I liked it, I wonder if I could do that shifting without an endpin, baroque style forever!!!! :)

[shunnehling]

This makes me want to cry its beautiful

[Hrimpurstala]

Forget about sheet music - I want a recording!

[kittastrophy]

So beautiful it brought tears to my eyes, thank you for sharing your talent.

[MovieFinatic456]

I played the viola all through middle and high school but stopped after I graduated.

It was the weirdest thing thing listening to this because all through the video I kept smelling the strong sent of rosin like I would always smell while I was playing. I swear it's true.

[TheLightningable]

I think you play wonderful but I don't think maybe a 7/8 grader who said that his instrument was larger than him can play this version of the Cello which is clearly much more advanced.

[musicloverofall]

perfection.

[Xylos144]

While you Cello playing was very enjoyable to listen to,you failed to understand or address what Rob Paravonian was referencing.

First, he was satirizing repetitivness in contemporary music.

Second, while you are playing the melody (essentiall what a 1st violin would be playing) he was forced to play the chord progresion.He stated that the other instruments had truly beautiful pieces. It wasn't a condemnation of the instrument, but of the part assigned, which is not what you played.

[jhvscs]

@Xylos144 Surely then by not playing the part assigned, this is an antidote for the bored cellist?!

[Xylos144]

@jhvscs For the bored Cellist, yes, this is certainly a cure.But the clip "Pachelbel's Rant was refering to the boring cello parts written.Playing the violin part will certainly cure your bordom, because it is a wonderful piece. But in an orchestra, you would not play this.You would play the cello part written, which is mostly the chord progression.You would not be playing the violin's part. In short, this clip says "the cure is to not play the cello part", which only endorses the other clip.

[jhvscs]

@Xylos144 are you joking?:P or are you actually taking the title of this video way too literall?. Obviously it's difficult to tell.

[ShawMcGumbry]

Awesome - a Pachelbel chaconne (chacanon?) for cello! Beautiful and beautifully played. I believe the technical term is 'badass' :-D

[Hyardacil]

@ShawMcGumbry It is not a chaconne as it does not have a descending bass line. Also it is not in 3/4 as most baroque chaconne's.

[ShawMcGumbry]

@Hyardacil True, it's not in 3/4 time and the ground bass that's implied isn't descending, but if I'd just said "variations" I couldn't have made the awful "chacanon" joke. Guess I should have put a smiley there to avoid confusion.

BTW, nice spinet playing. :-)

[Gamers334]

my hat tips to you sir just b.e.a. utiful  i wanna cello now

[tifforo1]

So would this part harmonize with the the other parts in an improved version of Pachelbel's Canon for multiple instruments?

[DelicateMorning]

I would really love this piece on my mp3 player. Can that happen? 

[MEGATRON1892]

@DelicateMorning That can happen. Just google: youtube mp3 converter. And download and install. It'll take you less than 5 minutes, and it's on your mp3 player.

[ShirbuLarka]

Wow you're playing was wonderful!! I love metal, rock ect. but i also love instrumental band (I even play in instrumental band/ just for joy) and stuff and people who play like you are the reason why!!! The cello had such a beautiful sound! It sounded as if you were playing both harmony and melody! This song sounds divine a Capella on the cello!

[XDitslikeharry]

beautiful :) made my day :) thanks

[mkmstrings]

i actually started clapping when this was done :-p

[lowtide55]

you played that so beautifully i actually almost got up to clap like if i was there.

[AkiraMusic]

Wow...

Beautiful...

[geitung1]

nice variation :)

[f0615388]

31 people have no musical talent/

[daddieslittleshi]

WOW how incredibly beautiful, thank you so much for sharing... this gave me chills, as a fellow cellist!

[rachel237linda]

beautiful :)

love for pachabel rant :')

[brmwk]

Does sound good, but you missed the whole point of the rant.. he's raging against the use of the same chords in songs... there's a similar rant by Axis of Awesome about 4 chord songs...

[veigvideos]

I don't like your version, I prefer the typical one, although I don't think it's bad, I just don't like the melody.

Also I wouldn't want to be your neighboor, just in case you have the inspiration at 3:00 am or so.

To be fair, I have to admit that you play it fine.

Regards!

[whodeyman9]

Trans Siberian Orchestra's Christmas Cannon Rock is the absolute best version I've heard

[SSJKuhan]

@FtienBR HAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH­AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAS­HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

i will kill you.

[dolphinsilver]

I really love canon... It's such a masterpiece. I listen to it over and over and I never get tired of doing it.

Nice variation Sir. I love it too. :)

[everyoneissleeping]

28 people who disliked this video are professional classical musicians.

[everyoneissleeping]

What's up with all those guys who seem to think they are so great that by posting their version of this canon they can convince anyone at all to stop hating Pachelbel?...

[mlufk829]

That was beautiful!

[GeoTexans]

Wonderful playing of the cello, but I think you guys missed the point of Pachelbel Rant. It's not that he couldn't play it on the cello. It's that, like most music teachers, they force you to play it the same way they played it hundreds of years ago. Which means he got the bad parts since the cello is relegated to a support instead of providing wonderful and complex tunes like this man so exquisitely crafted.

The problem is not that he couldn't do it, it's that he wasn't allowed to.

[M1ker601]

@GeoTexans: I think you may have also missed the point of the rant. Its repetition in contemporary music is the joke.

[shunnehling]

@M1ker601 But in a way it was all onset because Rob didn't like Pachelbel's canon because he never got a beautiful melody, he was always stuck with the same quarter note repetition, so in a way if there was a beautiful melody for the cello of "Pachelbel's Canon in D" then he would be totally fine with the canon :P

[polishcellist09]

@M1ker601

That's only half of it.

If you were a cello player, you'd have laughed really hard at Paravonian's beginning portion- it's funny because it's TRUE and we all hate playing that piece. I used to ask my quartet mates to give me a nod when we were at the final cadence, because I would zone out completely while playing it.

[TheBRunner]

@M1ker601 the rant is the "anditode" of the Pachelbel Rant by Rob Paravonian. Rob complains about the eight notes that are played by the cello in the whole original Canon in D. Usually the part played in this video here is performed by violins eg. a piano.

[puppies137]

classical music is probably the music i listen to the least buht this was absolutly beautiful and im at a loss for words so i shall make one uhp right now....SCRUMTRULECENT!!! i think im going to listen to this before going to sleep everynight instead of watching tv :)

[Angelusnoctem]

absolutly brilliant.....................­.

more than words could ever describe....

Greetings from Germany

[vanvanvanessaa]

AWESOME!

[squiral247]

thats cool, i want one of those things on my wall next too mfender n_n

[Nimfalas]

Wow... Just wow... You sir are incredible. Thank you for your antidote; it has worked wonders!

[ffokazak]

Take that you funny, weird, ranting comedian!

[iamawhore1]

the sound is amazing!

[jonwplo]

as nicely sounding and well played this is, pachelbel's canon would just sounds strange with a cello having the melody too. the cello works well with the chords because it provides the beat and something for the rest of the orchestra to base on. you can't take that away, even if you still have those 8 chords embellished into the melody like you have.

well that's what i think...

[dasupercraziness]

i bet thats the best thing he's spooned in a while...

[iamawhore1]

@dasupercraziness which would still give him more action than you

[ahryko]

The only versions of Canon that I've not cringed when I've heard: this one and the one by Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps.

[Notwithoutmypants]

Damn. I have to play Cello now.

[lyprov]

Who needs a full orchestra when we have cellists like this?

[dbmurata]

@lyprov I've heard arguments like this regarding the piano. Since it so easily performs the bass and treble clefs, why bother writing music for an orchestra? I got my answer: a solo instrument would be like a black and white picture, while the orchestra is full color. A black and white picture can be beautiful, as can one in full color. It doesn't hurt to have both.

[lyprov]

@dbmurata It was more of a compliment to the performer than a comment on orchestration technique. But thanks for the comment in case someone doesn't understand use of colour in music. =3

[kingwoodmetalist]

@dbmurata true, plus it would be rather interesting to see a piano player perform anywhere from 4-20 (just throwing a number out there since everysong has different number of parts) parts at once

[allengarvin]

That is exceptionally nice... though one should note Pachelbel did not write a work with a dull cello part (the cello sort of didn't even exist at the time). He wrote a canon for 3 violins with continuo, and the role of the continuo player is to enforce the harmonics underneath the melody. Virtuoso improvisation was allowed and even encouraged.

There also existed, in England, a tradition of adapting virtuoso violin music to bass gamba music. This sort of playing would fit in wonderfully there.

[Cuindless]

@allengarvin : You are categorically incorrect in your statements regarding the history of the instrument. The cello came into existence in it's mostly modern form in the 1500s as the basso violonecello, or "big bass violin". Since Pachelbel lived from 1653 to 1706 it is easily possible that he wrote the "Canon and Gigue in D" with the idea that the continuo would be performed on the cello. Pachelbel didn't write any specific instrument parts. Only the notes were published in manuscript form.

[zurrby]

Beautiful! The Cello is the most beautiful and mournful instrument and to hear this beautiful song played so beautifully on a Cello makes my heart sing along. Also, I agree with MC900FtMark aboiut the Musical Justice!

[Savsc04]

Gorgeous!!

[irArcangel]

this just owned mr.'pachelbel rant'

[bgroovy2]

More then eight notes....wooohooo!

[archmnementh]

Good music always gives me chills, even one is enough for me to notice skill, this just didn't stop.

[Elfsovereign]

Very impressive! A little choppy but very impressive!

[fnglert]

This is why it doesn't matter what instrument you're using. If you're a Master, you can evoke the most beautiful emotions and feelings from whatever your chosen weapon is.

Sir, I am a Metalhead, and I bow to thee.

[WindWalker940]

@fnglert My good metal head sir, Metal has taken alot from classical music and that is why it is so awesome, just listen once more to this, feel the passion of the notes streaming through the air giving your brain a massage.

[NeroGargoyl]

so i do. if pachelbel was today, he'd be a metalhead too.

[joadiss]

@fnglert Lol @ bow!

I started to cry at :46. It must feel incredibly good to play this instrument, to feel the vibration from it in your chest, body, bones as you play - a whole body experience. Beautiful.

Sir, I play mostly rhythm bluegrass guitar (yawn,) and I bow to thee.

PS Could you please come to our session on the 2nd Saturday of the month? (smile)

[azeleapark]

dude..............you suck!

[unfoldingart]

I'm a violinist and I can't help but envy the cello's soothing bass tones. Don't get me wrong, I love and adore the violin, but I sometimes wonder if I should have chosen the viola or the cello for their deeper sounds over the violin's springier tone...

[unfoldingart]

Impressive double stops, too.

[mkmstrings]

love it :-) you rule!

[CloneOfLuffy]

truly truly beautiful.

[zazeify]

you may look like my old shop teacher, but you rock!

[HippieRevolutionist]

that was nothing less than beautiful. i love this piece and i love your interpretation. well done.

[cattinc]

Absolutely amazing! I became awed, amazed and inspired. A very moving interpretation.

[woozapalooza92]

it takes alot of talent to produce a beautiful sound like this. As an orchestra student i can say that it is on thing that you have to work very hard at to make music sound this amazing and beautiful. I love this, and anyone who doesn't like this just has no idea what the real definition of music is.

[WTFHoRiZon]

i used this for concert lol

my director loved it

[tonyflew]

Cried. Wow. Wow. Wow. Thank you so much...

[jgps88]

wonderfull my friend

[StradAmatiViolin]

I have never seen such a beautiful interpretation of this. Thank You! I love it so much.

[abdushnar]

absolutely brilliant.  I was floored by this performance.

[BauerVaporXIX]

wow.

[emosucks89]

Gorgeous!

[captainamerica1a]

Beautiful. Makes Rob's humorous point, but still beautiful!

[skflau]

Excellent! Greetings from Hong Kong! Thank you! Great interpretation!

[newtonkaji]

really good

[Nhia89]

wow pretty sweet

[enfbassist]

I'm a Cellist, and i love it

[ThePragart]

Very nice! Well done and thank you!

[Charmusfi]

This is awesome.

I mean, i laughed like crazy with rob paravonians pachelbel rant , but this is still one of my favorite songs... I mean, how could you not like it ?

It's just SOOO beautiful... makes me want to cry

[keenanwm]

This was so beautiful and absolutely amazing! great job!

[DevinHungryjack]

Well done, sir.

[earthborne]

This brought tears to my eyes.

[SqueekieGirl]

Love It!!!

[KayleHylian]

It's quite beautiful all on its own. I hope it catches on so I can hear it with the other parts some day.

[Lexzius]

This isn't in D! :o

[artynz]

Bravo!

[robbzkel]

around 1:40-2:20 gave me goose bumps!

good job!

[downwithdinosaurs]

holy shit, dude.. that was bad ass.

[thechillybeanie]

Wow! so funny to see my former professor on here:D Seriously, thanks for your response to the Pachabel rant:)

Christina

[jirris]

*claps* Wonderful Sir. Cello is a much under-appreciated instrument. I love seeing what can be done with it, ranging from classical work to heavy metal. Absolutely beautiful and I love what you've done with this piece of timeless music.

[Dsargon]

I confess. The first few seconds I was very skeptical. But then suddenly at about 0:36... tears in my eyes. What a magnificent instrument, especially when it is played so well. Thanks for posting.

[majorpun]

Well done indeed! Pachelbel's song was designed to let people add, interpret, and personalize the music he wrote. That probably explains why it is so general! The "simplicity" for the stringed instruments, while boring and redundant, is definitely the most important part of the song in the first place by adding body. With such an "antidote" it would really add to the depth of the song!

Would love to hear it played with all parts!

[islandheart1]

wow amazing



[manola43]

Amazing!

[readingrymer]

the most beautiful music I've ever heard<3 absolutely oustanding! It brought me to tears.

[TigerEyeBlade]

this is so beautiful!!! i play the cello horray!! *buys the music immediately* bwahaha im gonna start learning this when i get the music!!!

[justinmilesmurray007]

nicely done :)

[FatManRedemption]

OOOOOHHHH SHIT! Paravonian just got his ass handed to him! That is just so awesome.

[CtrlAltDaLEET]

fantastic as a solo but it would mess up a quartet performance

[seattle0sound]

That was simply outstanding.

[bethanyeden]

Wonderfully moving.

[bethanyeden]

Bravo maestro.  That was magnificent.

[starl1088]

That was amazing!

Also, @PrncRny

I got the reference, Pvt. Jimmy!

P.S. way to misquote ;-)

[kainthornn]

Sometimes I forget how expressive a cellist this talented can be. Bravo, maestro!

[BaileyCalssics]

You sire, are a genius. I did not believe that was physically possible on a cello.

[ExodusLeth]

That's just beautiful! Thank you!

[thespiswolf]

This took my breath away, sir.

[UndisclosedGuitarGuy]

Listening to this makes me wish that i could play the cello.. and probably also that I could pay it.. xD

[UndisclosedGuitarGuy]

Listening to this makes me wish that i could play the cello.. and probably also that I could pay it.. xD

[mamachuecpgs]

omg this is physically impossible

[marscaleb]

This doesn't seem physically possible!