Name that chord...Please and thank you!

[echophex]

Can anybody devise what two chords these are?
It would be greatly appreciated.
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[geroyannis]

Bm7(9) to E/B ?

[tapper mike]

Only 2 chords really.

First chord low to high
F# A B C# F2
The C# does go up to D slightly in.

The next chord is
E A B E G

There is a little of leveling. Between the first and the second chord a D is added below the F# and E

Least that is what band in a box is telling me

[echophex]

thanks Fellas!
this put me on the path.
Much much appreciated.

[jancivil]

Bm7 9, E major.

Band in the Box has no ear.

food for thought: the first chord can be thought of as [similar to] a double suspension of the second (the latter in third position). (A and C# moves down to G# and B)

[Sascha Franck]

Bm7(9) to E/B ?

Exactly. I'm sure the 9 that you hear just a little in the beginning is played more or less by accident as it doesn't exist anymore when the entire thing repeats.
Fwiw, it sounds as if it really was just a D/B (which of course is a Bmin7) and E/B. A very typical progression to, say, "describe" a dorian mode.

And fwiw #2: tapper mike, I'm almost sure it's been a typo, but there certainly isn't any G in this progression (but a G#).

- Sascha

[geroyannis]

Fwiw, it sounds as if it really was just a D/B (which of course is a Bmin7) and E/B. A very typical progression to, say, "describe" a dorian mode.

Mmm, yes. I think that's the essence of this little progression.

[tapper mike]

Bm7(9) to E/B ?

Exactly. I'm sure the 9 that you hear just a little in the beginning is played more or less by accident as it doesn't exist anymore when the entire thing repeats.
Fwiw, it sounds as if it really was just a D/B (which of course is a Bmin7) and E/B. A very typical progression to, say, "describe" a dorian mode.

And fwiw #2: tapper mike, I'm almost sure it's been a typo, but there certainly isn't any G in this progression (but a G#).

- Sascha

Like I said... band in a box. and as jan stated biab has no ear.

[jancivil]

if the Bm is i [E = IV], this is the perfect 2-chord Dorian vamp.

In the voicing in the recording, it feels like E could be I so it's a Mixolydian two-chord vamp.
The Frank Zappa Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, titular tracks are two-chord Mixolydian, eg., D-C vamp.

the thing about modes and a two chord vamp is that the mode can take the bass note/root of the chord as tonic and now it's the other mode. There, over the C you play with that F# vs the E third like it's that feel from lydian. but ultimately the D is the center of gravity, Home. I think rhythm would define which is stronger there. This seems ambiguous without that defining 'One' in time as well.

[AnalogModelled]

Don't forget to learn to guess chords on your own, it can seem hard at the beginning but it's priceless.

[jancivil]

I don't think I hear E in the bass though. (I do internet where I don't have a sound card, display speakers.) the bass player sticking to B, that's an E '6/4' position, gets rid of some ambiguity so it's i-IV6/4, the perfect vamp for dorian.

[geroyannis]

I thought that had been cleared up already.

Also AnalogModelled's advice is very good.

[jancivil]

you thought? You can look at it both ways. If the bass player emphasizes an E on that E chord, it could be E = I.

[geroyannis]

I meant that it's pretty clear from the recording (and has already been discussed) that bass stays on B for both chords. Why should we talk about E, or any other note for that matter?

[tapper mike]

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