Axis progression
English
editEtymology
editFrom the name of a musical comedy group, The Axis of Awesome, whose 2009 song Four Chords comments on the ubiquity of this progression.
Noun
editAxis progression (uncountable)
- A chord progression, I–V–vi–IV, used in Western popular music, common since the 1970s.
- The Axis progression in the key of C:
- 2017, Mark Richards, “Tonal Ambiguity in Popular Music's Axis Progressions”, in Music Theory Online: