Comments on: Calling all Cellists http://www.dinane.net/2006/12/19/calling-all-cellists If the internet were picking teams for a blog battle, I'd be picked last. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:57:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: dinane http://www.dinane.net/2006/12/19/calling-all-cellists/comment-page-1#comment-3277 dinane Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:49:22 +0000 http://www.dinane.net/2006/12/19/calling-all-cellists#comment-3277 Pachelbel invented the three-note-song. You can thank him for Rock & Roll. And by extension for Pop, Punk, Country, Bluegrass, and pretty much any genre that didn't evolve from Jazz. One gaping exception - The Beatles, who were so bad at music theory that they invented chord progressions that otherwise make no sense. Good thing for them they were cute. Now everyone wishes they could write like The Beatles, but they study too much. Every song you study makes you less Beatle-riffic. The comic mispoke by the way. They weren't quarter notes. They were slow-ass whole notes. Because playing only eight notes wasn't punishment enough, he had to make you draw each one out while shaking your left arm to a pulp trying to vibrato-ize the sound, which really could use it, because it was so boring. Even Yo-Yo Ma, who can make any song sound beautiful, can't help Pachelbel. Pachelbel invented the three-note-song. You can thank him for Rock & Roll. And by extension for Pop, Punk, Country, Bluegrass, and pretty much any genre that didn’t evolve from Jazz. One gaping exception – The Beatles, who were so bad at music theory that they invented chord progressions that otherwise make no sense. Good thing for them they were cute. Now everyone wishes they could write like The Beatles, but they study too much. Every song you study makes you less Beatle-riffic.

The comic mispoke by the way. They weren’t quarter notes. They were slow-ass whole notes. Because playing only eight notes wasn’t punishment enough, he had to make you draw each one out while shaking your left arm to a pulp trying to vibrato-ize the sound, which really could use it, because it was so boring. Even Yo-Yo Ma, who can make any song sound beautiful, can’t help Pachelbel.

]]> By: Kelly http://www.dinane.net/2006/12/19/calling-all-cellists/comment-page-1#comment-3257 Kelly Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:54:00 +0000 http://www.dinane.net/2006/12/19/calling-all-cellists#comment-3257 And now I'm going to notice as it takes over my life...not to mention it's totally stuck in my head now...at least I wasn't a cellist...though I definitely remember one song from band that I repeated the exact same thing over and over...it wasn't quarter notes but it was the same measure 64 times...though all that's going through my head now is Pachelbel...ahhhh!!! And now I’m going to notice as it takes over my life…not to mention it’s totally stuck in my head now…at least I wasn’t a cellist…though I definitely remember one song from band that I repeated the exact same thing over and over…it wasn’t quarter notes but it was the same measure 64 times…though all that’s going through my head now is Pachelbel…ahhhh!!!

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