Progression
The Pachelbel's progression in Ab major
Pachelbel's progression in Ab major plays Ab, Eb, Fm, Cm and Db — I, V, vi, iii and IV — across 8 chords. The eight-chord descending-bass pattern from Pachelbel's Canon in D, borrowed by pop songs from the 1970s onward.
The chords, in order
1AbI
2EbV
3Fmvi
4Cmiii
5DbIV
6AbI
7DbIV
8EbV