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If you're not familiar with Rob Paravonian's soapbox/tirade/sermon about the
Pachelbel Canon, it's time for you to get up-to-date. I enjoy musical humor,
and I'm sure you recognized as many of the songs Rob references as I did, but
I had a Paravonian moment of my own last night as I transcribed The Rainbow
Connection. It wasn't the expletive-ridden moment that it might have been for
Rob - more of an ah-hah, now I see what he's talking about....
The software I was using to script out the piano lines, for complicated reasons,
makes it much easier to lay down the bass cleff by setting the pedal note for an
entire block of a song first, then go back and fill in the rest of the left
hand. Rainbow Connection is in 3 and is pedal-note-only for the first beat in
the left hand. This left me writing out most of 80 bars by arpeggiating up the
bar's chord, then back again down as I wrote out beats 2 and 3.
I heard the Cello part of Canon in D a number of times last night.
-rbarry
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