Pachelbel Canon in D major     1680

• Well known for its chord progression which has become one of the most used in popular music.

• Listen to "Basket Case" by Green Day.

To change this progression in to another key the chords would be shown like this:

I    V    VIm    IIIm    IV    I    IV    V   

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Key D

D / A / Bm / F#m / G / D / G / A /

Try the two bar bass line below - it just repeats all the way through!

Tune Your e6 string to d ["dropped d" tuning]

e1 --------------------------------------------------------

b2 ---------------------------------------------------------

g3 ----------------------------------------------------------

d4 -----0---------------------------------------------------

a5 -----------0-----2----------------------------------0-------------

d6 ------------------------4-------5-----0------5-----------------

           D     A     Bm    F#m    G      D       G       A

Pachelbel Canon in D major In C major !!!

C / G / Am / Em / F / C / F / G /

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