The canon progression — the most-reused spine in music, every chord inside the family. Played root-position (these chips) the bass leapfrogs down a fourth, up a second, with the strong beats falling 1 → 6 → 4; voice the middle chords as inversions (5/7, 3-/5, 1/3) and the floor becomes the literal descending scale — the wedding-gig arrangement. Pachelbel's own cello leaps.
movesroots leapfrog — down a 4th, up a 2nd — so the strong beats descend 1, 6, 4; inversions turn it into the stepwise walksolo·singone major scale fits all eight bars — the famous stepwise descent lives in the TOP voice (the violins' theme), so chase it up thereon recordCanon in D — Pachelbel · Basket Case — Green Day (same spine, more distortion)try it▶ play it, then steal four bars. Bonus: swap in 5/7 and 1/3 grips and hear the floor start to walk.