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I've been playing the piano for over 35 years and had never heard of the Nashville Number System 😳😅. But once you started explaining it I was like "Oh this is just the degrees of a major scale I learned when I was a kid!" Nice job sneaking in music theory in there! 😁😁😁😁
I learned the number system in a music theory course I took twenty years ago, and it has been a big part of my musical journey ever since. Very important information here! Great job explaining it.
As I understand it, in the NNS, all chords are major unless marked otherwise. So, in the key of C major, 2 means a D major chord. You use 2- if you want D minor. (Wikipedia gives a useful overview.)
0:35 - I think it best to use to use 30 keys. For example - F# and Gb are not the same key. B/Cb, C#/Db the same, their relative minors as well. Learned this from Victor Wooten. This may not be critical to the Nashville system, however useful in overall musicianship. Also, be careful when thinking of the "7" chord in a key as diminished. The triad is diminished, but in reality the chord is half-diminished when the 7th tone is added to create the chord. If a chart or verbal instruction says to play the vii chord, they really do not mean to play to play a fully diminished chord. For example - in the key of C major you would play B as a half diminished chord (B-D-F-A) - Not B-D-F-G#
When I want to catch the scale key and the chords of a particular song that I heard for the very first time, either I find them both on the strongest beat of the first bar or I listen for when the song returns to the tonic chord and then know the key and the chord family. If the song begins with let’s say chord F major, then its key is F major with its accompanying 7 family chords. However sometimes the song doesn’t begin with the tonic chord even in the first bar but will require a few subsequent bars to return to its tonic chord. I use this system of musical logic and/or musical ear to ‘capture’ impromptu both the chords and key scale on both the guitar and piano. Things get easier for me for familiar songs like the oldies of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Things get a tad complicated when there is one or more key modulation in the same song but I usually still managed to get them keys
Hi Kaitlyn, Thanks for that. All new to me but really helpful. Now it all fits into place the organisation of the various scales, and how to switch between. Many thanks, Bill McG (NZ)
I've heard Martha Argerich saying that it's only Western ears that hear major as happy and minor as sad. Not sure if that's right - but she was my friend's student. I have nearly 100 compositions on my channel. Go check out.
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I've been playing the piano for over 35 years and had never heard of the Nashville Number System 😳😅. But once you started explaining it I was like "Oh this is just the degrees of a major scale I learned when I was a kid!"
Nice job sneaking in music theory in there! 😁😁😁😁
I learned the number system in a music theory course I took twenty years ago, and it has been a big part of my musical journey ever since. Very important information here! Great job explaining it.
As I understand it, in the NNS, all chords are major unless marked otherwise. So, in the key of C major, 2 means a D major chord. You use 2- if you want D minor. (Wikipedia gives a useful overview.)
I never managed to grasp the understanding of the number system. now I do . thank you very much.
Hooray!
0:35 - I think it best to use to use 30 keys. For example - F# and Gb are not the same key. B/Cb, C#/Db the same, their relative minors as well. Learned this from Victor Wooten. This may not be critical to the Nashville system, however useful in overall musicianship. Also, be careful when thinking of the "7" chord in a key as diminished. The triad is diminished, but in reality the chord is half-diminished when the 7th tone is added to create the chord. If a chart or verbal instruction says to play the vii chord, they really do not mean to play to play a fully diminished chord. For example - in the key of C major you would play B as a half diminished chord (B-D-F-A) - Not B-D-F-G#
When I want to catch the scale key and the chords of a particular song that I heard for the very first time, either I find them both on the strongest beat of the first bar or I listen for when the song returns to the tonic chord and then know the key and the chord family. If the song begins with let’s say chord F major, then its key is F major with its accompanying 7 family chords. However sometimes the song doesn’t begin with the tonic chord even in the first bar but will require a few subsequent bars to return to its tonic chord. I use this system of musical logic and/or musical ear to ‘capture’ impromptu both the chords and key scale on both the guitar and piano. Things get easier for me for familiar songs like the oldies of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Things get a tad complicated when there is one or more key modulation in the same song but I usually still managed to get them keys
Yay!
Thank you for that explanation!!❤🎉
please make a video on how to transpose through a Nashville number system ?
Hi Kaitlyn, Thanks for that. All new to me but really helpful. Now it all fits into place the organisation of the various scales, and how to switch between. Many thanks, Bill McG (NZ)
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Thank you for the video. Very well explained!
thanks, never heard of this system before
I have seen videos using this number system but had not understood it. Thanks for the explanation.
Glad you understand it now!!
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You said you were going to explain this the other week and you did. 🙂 Now just need to figure it out. Thanks for the great videos!!
Yep, sure did!! Glad it was helpful! 😊
I haven't learned anything new but thanks for providing information about these because many will find it useful ❤
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I've heard Martha Argerich saying that it's only Western ears that hear major as happy and minor as sad. Not sure if that's right - but she was my friend's student. I have nearly 100 compositions on my channel. Go check out.
Yes, this only works for Western Music... but nowadays I believe most people listen to that!
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In C, how can #2 be "minor" when there are no sharps nor flats in C? Instead #2 is D natural not D minor. I must be missing something
Why are piano teachers always so pretty? I cant focus on the lessons!
i can’t focus at all.
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