From the course: Singing Lessons: 3 Essential Techniques
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Introduction to the Nashville Number System
From the course: Singing Lessons: 3 Essential Techniques
Introduction to the Nashville Number System
- I'm going to share with you something that confounds even professional musicians who are not familiar with it. So this is like an insider tip. In Nashville, specifically the musicians there developed an ingenious method of writing music in a form that was so easy to read, so easy to transpose, so easy to use as a guide in a recording session or a demo session that they could almost instantly know the chord that they had to play and fill in the blanks from there. It's called the Nashville Number System, and even experience musicians who are not familiar with it, it's kind of a mystery to them. What are they talking about, those crazy Nashville players? Well I'm going to tell you, it's not that complicated and it's actually a very brilliant way to notate music. It's something that we can relate very easily to the fun that we just had with Axis of Awesome and the Four Chord Song. So in the scale, as you just learned, in your major scale, we're going to work in the key of C again…
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