What is this tune?

Cafe Society
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[QUOTE=panache45]
Could be worse. I once heard someone refer to it as the “Taco Bell Canon.”
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Funny…I was thinking a little earlier that a Mexican-style arrangement of Canon in D called Yo Quiero Pachelbel would be fun.

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I went to a wedding Saturday, and I thought, "Really? Palcelbel? Haven’t we had enough of that?

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[QUOTE=Tengu]
Sure is. (Another Youtube vid.)
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Woa, I saw that guy in concert in a very small venue back in my college days. I was sitting like four feet away from him. I remember I liked him, but that’s all I remember.

-FrL-

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I wondered about the name of the piece, which I only knew to mean law, or rule. That didn’t seem to fit, so I m-w’d it;

Okay. So, does the tune actually do that?
More fodder for the compost heap that is my mind. :smiley:

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[QUOTE=pulykamell]
Eh, the kid’s OK. I certainly wouldn’t discourage him, but it sounds very mechanical, although he has his technique down. If this were a 25-year-old guy playing, I’d be a bit more critical.
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Yeah, his skill and enthusiasm are there. The arrangement is his. If he keeps that and smoothes it out with experience and developes his own style he’ll be really good. I liked the way he came in with the recording (cello?), then took it away.

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[QUOTE=mangeorge]

Okay. So, does the tune actually do that?

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Pretty much. 24 freaking times, IIRC. Although it’s probably more properly called a passacaglia rather than a canon. A passacaglia is characterized by a repeating, unchanging ground bass pattern over which themes or variations are played.

This is what drives a lot of musicians nuts about the piece, especially bass players. Endlessly repeating the same descending bassline of 7 or 8 notes can be boring as hell.

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“Summer”
Keep it up, kiddo. :slight_smile:

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Part of this melody is very similar to the part of the Burger King jingle that goes “Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us”.

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[QUOTE=DaveRaver]
Part of this melody is very similar to the part of the Burger King jingle that goes “Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us”.
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Dang! I remember that jingle, I don’t remember how it goes.
Which melody? Canon or Summer?