> I am arguing that the Axis progression is not a variation of the Canon in D progression But it most certainly is. They chords Axis are using are E –

> I am arguing that the Axis progression is not a variation of the Canon in D progression But it most certainly is. They chords Axis are using are E – B - C#m – A, or I-V-vi-IV Pachelbel's Canon transposed to E Major uses the same chords except for the last, which would be E - B - C#m - G#m, or I-V-vi-iii Changing one root from a minor third to a perfect fourth does not a new progression make. Changing one chord in a progression by one half step in the same key does not make it "a rather different chord progression." One is a variation of the other and derivative, and the single variation is in the same key, changed by a half step and minor to major. And Axis is doing the same thing. They're changing the minor third to a perfect fourth in many of the songs they're demonstrating. But how could they do that if it would make it a fundamentally different progression? Because it wouldn't.