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According to the wikipedia. This system is clearly based from the figured bass system from the Baroque music era. The figured bass system uses roman numerals to indicate the chord function. Roman numerals can appear as lower case or upper case.

This is quite useful because upper case is used to denote major chords while lower case represents minor chords. The Nashville Number system does require some understanding of music theory. Music theory names all the functions of melody and harmony.

Learning songs becomes quicker and quicker. He has rigorously updated and edited the book for each of 7 subsequent editions. An introduction is included that thoroughly explains how to use the book. Lyrics are not included. This book was written for people who play music and write songs but have no traditional music training.

In fact, it's eerie and a bit melancholy—according to Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel, Dm is the saddest sound in music. Keep moving this triad pattern note by note up the scale until you get to the C an octave above where you started. As you do, the chord types will change. Here are the triads you're gonna get if you stay in the scale:. Ear training tip : Do this all the time and train your ear to really hear the difference between the way major and minor chords sound.

Close your eyes and have a friend play the chords for you and see if you can tell the difference between major and minor triads within the C major scale. Keep it up and you'll be driving everyone crazy naming majors and minors as you hear them on the radio. Implied Knowledge These major and minor triads give us a valuable clue into understanding implications within the number system. When you're looking at a number chart each number refers to an entire chord.

It's implied that when you see a 1 on the chart it will be a major chord, 2 will be minor, and so on. This follows the pattern we established above, when harmonizing the C major scale using triads:. When you're writing a number chart, it's assumed that you understand the inherent major or minor-ness of the chords. The number 2 will have a dash next to it, which means the chord is minor.

Remember, in a major scale the second chord in the scale is always a minor chord. The number 1, the first chord of your major scale, won't have a dash. The lack of a dash implies that the chord is a major chord. But what if some smarty pants songwriter decides to throw in a major 2 chord instead of a minor 2 just for fun? In the key of C, this would indicate a D major chord and there ain't no F in the key of C major. In Ex. Using the method we described above, you end up with Ex.

Never Rewrite Charts Again It doesn't matter what key your song is in—this chart will work. This is the whole point of the number system. If someone wants to change the song's key, all you have to do is write the new key at the top of your chart. Nothing else on your chart has to change. So functional. What about Minor Keys?

Let me explain. Every major scale has a relative minor scale that's based on the sixth degree. For example, the relative minor of C major is A minor. Now, go back to your piano. You jumped in the same pool from a different angle.

You turned a smile upside down into a frown, taking happy sparkly major action and darkening the skies just by starting on a different spot in your scale. When you play the same notes of any major scale but start from the sixth note of that scale, the order in which the whole- and half-steps fall adds up to a natural minor scale.

You can hear it. Since the notes are the same as in the major scale, the corresponding numbers in your number chart are the same. You're just starting your song from a different spot on the scale. And now everyone's crying. That would completely negate the inherent chord values of the number system, you'd be throwing in major 2s and 3s all over the place, and the whole chart would be a huge mess. Your song would simply start on the Same pool, different diving board.

A great place to start understanding all of this is over a bar blues. Most players get their start by learning the blues, and for good reason. The chord progressions have a familiarity to them. Your ear knows what type of chord it wants to hear next, and for the most part you only have to learn three chords. In the key of C, those chords are C, F, and G. You need to indicate this blueness on your number chart, so you write a tiny 7 next to your number, just like you do with a letter chart.

Here is the same blues progression written in numbers Ex. Listen for it at in the video. Changing Keys What happens if your singer decides to sing the song in a new key? On a letter chart you would have to change every chord. Literally sit there and cross out every chord and write new letters in its place. No bueno. And forget about trying to rewrite letter charts onstage. I'm in an all-female cover band. We take requests.

If someone wants to hear a Tim McGraw tune, it's unlikely we're gonna be playing it in the key in which it was originally sung by Mr. It's a tremendous pain in my rear to have to transcribe letter charts up or down several steps in real time when I'm out on a gig. If the whole world would adopt the number system, many professional musicians' lives would be so much easier. That's why I'm spreading the good word here, folks.

Get onboard! Beat Values The other thing you'll notice with number charts is that there's no staff paper. Staff paper allows the depiction of measures of music, notating rhythms, etc. The number system is a shorthand, so those depictions are either eliminated or implied. With the number system it's understood that each number written on your chart is given the value of one measure of music.

Calm down, we've got you covered. If you see two numbers underlined, you split the measure equally between them. In our turnaround at the end of the progression, the C chord gets two beats, the Am gets two beats, then we head to the next measure where the Dm gets two beats and the G gets two beats.

Make sense? Relax, I got you. Say you want to throw some passing chords getting one beat into this blues progression. This is how we do it Ex. Watch and listen at in the video.

As you can see, just underline all chords within a single bar. Just write in some tick marks underneath the chords to show how many beats each chord gets.