Canon in D

Chords in this song

DABmF#mG

Chord chart

How to sing it

Eight chords, two to a bar, go round twice in the chart and repeat without end, so once one lap is in your hands you can keep it going for minutes. From the G in the third bar the back half of each lap sounds brighter than the front; if you hum a tune over it, let it rise there and fall back to the start on the final A.

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Patterns inside this song

• Three-chord Song I–IV–V
• IV–V–I Cadence IV–V–I
• Canon Progression I–V–vi–iii–IV–I–IV–V
• Plagal Cadence IV–I
• Pop Canon I–V–vi–iii–IV–I–IV–V
• Canon with Sevenths Imaj7–V7–vi7–iii7–IVmaj7–Imaj7–IV–V
• Canon Pop Short I–V–vi–iii–IV
• Plagal Amen IV–I

Why this song is free to play

Johann Pachelbel died in 1706. More than 300 years after his death, no country’s term remains. His dates (1653–1706) and the eight-chord ground bass were checked by search.

More in this category

• Für Elise
• Ode to Joy
• Brahms Lullaby
• Minuet in G
• The Blue Danube
• Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

More in this key

• Joy to the World
• The First Noel
• Holy, Holy, Holy
• The Blue Danube
• Air on the G String
• Pomp and Circumstance

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• How to read a chord chart