This is definitely a game changer once you've gotten the hang of it! It makes adjusting keys for songs super easy. Hope this helps you and your church!
Nice video. I've been using NNS for worship team charts for the last couple of years, having come from a more "traditional" classical/jazz/pop style of charting with chord names. I personally find arabic numerals easier to read quickly - the roman numerals have too many Vs and Is, and the order matters. 😛 If you're scanning a chart on-the-fly, the arabic numerals are difficult to misinterpret. Also, it's helpful to be able to assume that a number without other annotations is Major, and add a dash (-) for minor. So, 1 2- 3- 4 5 6- are your typical "diatonic" chords in any Major key. And songs in minor keys would be written relative to its Major. So, if a song is in A-minor, you would write it as if it was in C-Major instead. Most of the CCLI charts have a "Number" version you can export, and they use these conventions. The other thing that's helpful about NNS charts is that each number (separated by whitespace) indicates that chord should be played for a full measure. So, 1 1 4 5 means two measures of the 1-chord, followed by a measure each of the 4 and 5 chords. There are other conventions for representing faster changes, where multiple chords are in a measure. If you've never heard a song, and you're winging it based solely on the chart, it's super helpful to know where the chords change in relation to the bar line (measure). Also, check out JotChord for authoring nicely-formatted PDFs using NNS. (www.jotchord.com)
As a long time Nashville musician and producer I am always glad to see the Nashville Number System promoted. I appreciate your video and the work you put into it. However, I must correct you. This scale...1,2m,3m,4,5,6m,7dim..is NOT the NNS. Unfortunately this is a widespread misconception about the NNS that has been spread by music theory gurus who think they know the NNS...but they don't! In the real NNS used every day by myself and the world class musicians here in Nashville, all the chords are MAJOR. A 6 in the NNS is ALWAYS played as a basic major chord. A minor chord must have a suffix attached as in 6- or 6m. This applies to recording sessions as well as live gigs....minor chords are fingers down. I realize you have probably gotten your information from the many videos teaching this concept, but they are ALL wrong! Especially the many worship teams that continue to call out a six when they mean 6 minor. Here's an exercise for you: Look up the chords online to the song by Eddy Arnold titled Anytime. Translate it to numbers using your system...2m,3m,6m etc. See how that works! LOL. Keep on keepin' on.
This should literally be the first thing you learn as a musician - Every degree of the scale has a chord, learn each chord, and then learn every scale. Pro-tip: there are only 12 scales in western music.
I always thought you distinguished Maj and Min chords using upper case vs lower case roman numerals. So the diatonic chords of any key would be I ii iii IV V vi vii dim. It looks like you are only using upper case.
Yup. You're right. I was using a font that only has upper cases in it. That's a mistake on my behalf. I accidentally overlooked that detail for font styling. I've made that adjustment with a different font for future videos. Thanks for bringing this up! If a 6 is minor is should be *vi* NOT *VI*
Thanks for sharing power chord / triad chord shapes in Nashville system numbering to improve your guitar chord progression playing for a beginner guitarist.
The 5th trick is a nice one. I've only recently found how powerful that 1 and 5 are especially for simple parts. The part you went through quickly starting at about 11:50 was very interesting and I look forward to the Triad video.
Glad you found it helpful! That’s always a great starting point if you’re not sure what chord a number is. I’ll definitely be diving into the triad part more in its own video! The triad video is going to build on this concept a lot for sure.
Right at 41 seconds they’re saying Nashville Tennessee is the country music and western capital???? Wrong !!!!! There would be no country music without Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama . There would be no country music without Louisiana Hayride days and Hank Williams along with my grandfather Bud Fisher , along with people like Abe Manual . The 1940s created what would be the standard in country music throughout the south. Obviously, whoever put this together does not know their history . Nashville is just some thing that happened after the fact .
I would imagine that pros, who already understand & have tweaked their logic of how chord progressions work use, and have used, whatever system works for them, either nashville or roman numeral. One may be more practical while the other is far greater for analysis. Because of how the Nashville number system denotes inversion, it's very hard to show secondary chords needed for analysis. EX: a progression in C Major C D G which is a I V/V V in RNumeral would most likely just be represented as a flavor of 1 2 5 just denoting 2 as major
