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Progression

The I–V–vi–IV in Ab major

I–V–vi–IV in Ab major plays Ab, Eb, Fm and Db — I, V, vi and IV — across 4 chords. The four-chord pop loop heard in hundreds of hit songs across every decade since the 1980s — the same four chords, started on vi instead, are sometimes called the 'sensitive female' progression.

The chords, in order

1AbI
2EbV
3Fmvi
4DbIV

The shapes

The same progression in a nearby key

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