Math rock chord progression analysis
I have been given this chord progression I have to analyse:
Em9 | F#m7 F#7/G | Bm11 | Cmaj7 Dmaj7 | Em9 (loop around)
I've got around to set E as the root since it's the one that sounds the most stable. So the progression would go like this:
Im9 | IIm7 II7 | Vm11 | bVImaj7 bVIImaj7 | Im9
Excluding the colours, and taking F#7/G as a passing chord, I'd say this is in E aeolian (or E natural minor). But the 7ths are inconsistent and getting me confused.
How would you analyse this?
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I would view this as a chord progression in E minor (or, given the C#'s, could be in Dorian mode) which, put in Roman numerals, would be
i-ii-V7/v-v-VI-VII
Without listening to the actual song it is hard to tell where the tonal center lies.
In E minor you wouldn't have neither F#m nor Dmaj7, but rather F#dim/F#m7b5 and D7.
If you look at it from a D major / B minor perspective, everything is diatonic besides the passing F#7/G and the Cmaj7, that can be seen as a bVII / myxolidian moment or as a simple planing back to D.
(btw in roman numerals notations you use small letters in favour of the m modifier, so v over Vm.)
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