Axis progression

English

Etymology

From the name of a musical comedy group, The Axis of Awesome, whose 2009 song Four Chords comments on the ubiquity of this progression.

Noun

Axis progression (uncountable)

  1. A chord progression, I–V–vi–IV, used in Western popular music, common since the 1970s.
    The Axis progression in the key of C:
    {<c'e'g'>1<g'b'd''><a'c''e''><f'a'c''>}
    • 2017, Mark Richards, “Tonal Ambiguity in Popular Music's Axis Progressions”, in Music Theory Online:
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