7 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Descending Sequence"

A clavinet-like sound descending sequebce.

Chromatic descending 5-6 sequence from which "Lay, Lady, Lay" sequence is derived.

Air can descending into glass of water.

An important subtype of the descending 5-6 sequence is the root position variant, also known as the Pachelbel sequence, due to the use of this sequence in Pachelbel's Canon. The Pachelbel sequence changes the first inversion chords in the descending 5-6 sequence to root position chords, resulting in a bass pattern that moves down a fourth, and then up stepwise.

An ascending fifths sequence in C major. Notice the "circle of fifths" pattern in the lower staff similar to the descending fifths sequence, except going in the opposite direction.

The standard way of filling in this descending thirds pattern is to interpolate a first inversion chord in between each of these descents by thirds. The result is a bass line that moves down continuously stepwise, resulting in a figured bass of '5-6', and therefore, the standard descending 5-6 sequence.

Striking a long plastic shoehorn along an old headboard made of wide brass pipes. Produces an ascending and descending sequence of notes.