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Released 12/25/2010.
Duration: 3:58.

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Tracks that Pachelbel's Gardener references:

• Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel
• The Beginning of Something Really Excellent by rj lake

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• Sheet music by Gamehunter

  • Pachelbel's Gardener - Gamehunter (band).pdf (147.5 kB)
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Artist commentary:

rj lake, Nick Smalley, and Hanna Nakamura: (album audio commentary)

(Continued from Anthem of Rime)

RJ!: Oh god, here's one of my tracks now. I'm scared. It's fading in...
Nick: It's Pachabelle's Canon?
Nick: It's not Pachabelle, is it? Hanna: Oh, fun!
RJ!: It is, it is. Although it's... Pachabell? I want to say Pachelbel.
Hanna: Not this shit again.
Nick: Pachelbel, there we go, it's Pachelbel.
RJ!: But this is called Pachelbel's Gardener.
Nick: I'm not a fan of Canon to be honest.
RJ!: It's a Christmas standard, I think.
RJ!: You always hear this on radio stations that don't play any other classical music.
Nick: It's more like, Pachabell visits the 21st century at Christmas time.
RJ!: Anyway, essentially this was me transposing Canon in D into C major.
RJ!: And then switching it up and mashing it with The Beginning of Something Really Excellent, which is one of Jade's two themes that I wrote.
RJ!: And basically that's literally the end of the story.
Nick: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nick: I was listening to that earlier and it's pretty good, man.
Nick: And that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Nick: All these people are making cool songs and I'm only stuck with literally 6 minutes and 12 seconds on the music team.
Nick: I should start making more songs.
RJ!: I don't know, I think that on this album though, you... you are probably the most invaluable part, most likely.
RJ!: On this album, I would say that you're probably the most invaluable part, most likely, with your intros and George the Conductor voice.
Nick: Yeah, I mean, with my George the Conductor...
Hanna: You're so valuable, you're invaluable.
RJ!: I stole this album from everybody.
RJ!: Oh man, my chair is so squeaky. You can hear that.
Nick: I'm enjoying this song.
Nick: I didn't think I heard this before the album and now I'm hearing it for the first time on the commentary.
Nick: Wow, way to go me.
RJ!: Actually, that's not your fault because a few of these songs that are on the final master got to me last minute.
RJ!: And so I think I'm the only one who's heard a few of these in the forum they are on this album right now.
RJ!: This one definitely I don't think anyone heard yet.
Nick: Yeah. The Final Master, everybody...
Nick: I don't know, this Christmas album was up for like a week and nobody paid attention to it.
RJ!: Yeah, pretty much what happened was I just offhandedly said to everyone. Nick: It's a good album I think.
RJ!: I'm like, hey, we should do a Christmas album and this was less than a week ago.
RJ!: And they're like, oh, that can't happen ever.
RJ!: And then I started pushing a bit more.
Nick: Let's do a Christmas album. They're like, "No, I've got work to do", "Christmas is soon", "I can't think of anything".
RJ!: Let's just do like four songs.
RJ!: And then I wrote the ending song.
Nick: Jit being the lazy bones decided to be the last guy.
RJ!: I did that, threw Shit, Let's Be Santa at the end and I threw that in there.
RJ!: And then from there, I think everyone just started sort of doing things on this album a bit.
RJ!: Kind of just blossomed from there.
RJ!: I'm actually really, really impossibly impressed with the team as a whole.
Nick: See, Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff really did save Christmas.
RJ!: I have to applaud the team on this one.

(Continued in Carefree Perigee)