Progression
The Pachelbel's progression in C major
Pachelbel's progression in C major plays C, G, Am, Em and F — 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
1CI
2GV
3Amvi
4Emiii
5FIV
6CI
7FIV
8GV