Bis is a Latin prefix or suffix designating the second instance of a thing, thus preceding ter. An example in recent modern usage is the ITU-T modem standard from the late 20th century, V.32bis. Bis can also refer to:
Pachelbel's Canon in D major, a piece of chamber music scored for three violins and basso continuo and originally paired with a gigue in the same key, experienced a tremendous surge in popularity during the 1970s.
Letâs take a simple and common set of chord changes like the VImâIVâIâV progression. In the key of G major those basic chords are E minor, C, G, and D. These are the same chord changes (in a different key) that I use in my song âBeautiful Pain,â as you can see in Fig. 1. Nothing too groundbreaking here, but letâs look at five different ways to make them more interesting.