What are the chords names for these two-note "chords"?
Live On Forever by The Afters has a "chord" progression that continues throughout the entire song, but each "chord" only has two notes, which are:
C, E?; (must be Cm, the only chord that works)
E?, G; (E? or Cm, probably Cm because the "C" note from before seems to be sustained into this "chord")
G, B?; (Gm or E?)
F, B?; (must be B?)
F, A; (Dm or F)
How would you name these?
The chords I would name it is Cm, Cm, E?, B?, F
It really tricked me because it's in C "dorian" (so its key signature resembles B? but ends on a C note), and there are no accidentals in the entire song, so the possible chords are F, B?, E?, Dm, Cm, and Gm.
If you want to listen to it, it's clearest at the very beginning.
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I would label it Cm, Eb, Gm, F. With roman numerals it would be i, III, v, IV.
You could say the first three chords are an arpeggiation of a Cm7 chord. Then the pattern is just Cm7 F.
Cm and Eb for the second and third chords seems wrong, because the roots are missing, any why not give them straight forward labels as root position chords instead of calling them rootless chords?
Regarding the Bb above the final F chord. That note is held over from the previous Gm chord and so you can call it a suspension which then resolves by stepping down to the A - the third of the F chord. In other words, the F Bb isn't a separate chord. It's an F chord embellished with a suspension.
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