It is a useful system. Another good tip someone told me years ago, is to try playing the guitar without looking at it all the time. It teaches you to use your ears, and you start to rely on muscle memory more too. It also comes in useful if you are going to sing while playing the guitar, as it's hard to sing into a mic and look at the guitar at the same time.
"The two will ALWAYS be a minor, USUALLY..." 🤔 That got me thinking. Great video! Thank you! Please work some more with Marty. And, I L❤VE your music too BTW!
I'm not ripping on her. It really was very informative. I just found that statement amusing 🙂 I always do that. Well, usually... sometimes... mostly... unless, occasionally... okay now and then... definitely frequently 😉
Okay so i may finally understand this. So is each Key of a songs whether its G or A or whatever, do they all have their own system of chords or are they same as the G Key she just explained? Is every key (Maj - Min - Min - Maj - Maj - Dim - Maj) ?
@@Tuhqa Every major key. It works by building triads on each note of the scale. Minor keys are totally different. The seventh note of the scale is actually a half diminished flattened fifth but that happens when you add the fourth note over the triad and is maybe a bit farther along than this lesson. Four notes built on the b (7th degree of a C major scale) will give you B, D, F, A which forms a m7b5 chord.
@@andrewkim7147 there is a pattern to establish which chords are in any given key. The pattern for a major key is different from a minor key. So in major keys it's always going to be minor and in minor keys it's always major. 👍
A song that explains this system is Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. And it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth. The minor fall and the major lift. The lyrics help you memorize the chord sequence
The Nashville world was the number chart no notes just key and numbers change the key the numbers stay the same. Yes If you know the keys you know the notes same thing but the Sessions guys do via numbers not Music notation.
Hello, but the roman numeral 'standard' way is the same, if you read a II V I on a chart its the same concept. I guess its just a less intimidating version maybe. if it works it works. I didn't comment to trash the idea, i was excited about learning a new system. It did look like there were some more notation nuances, but the video finished before they were explained.
Toby Hodkinson it’s the exact same thing. It’s just they’ve switched the Roman numerals for numbers. This was systematized by catholic monks, not Nashville cowboys
Love Lindsey Ell! She is awesome. The causal hang out feeling of the lesson about Nashville numbers is great. Marty I like where you are going with having guest muscians teach little bits of healthy guitar snacks for the mind to chew on. Please keep it up.
Thanks, Lindsay - the way you explained and demonstrated the system was the best I've heard. Can't get that from a book. Thanks for taking the time to teach this.
stuart lawler I didn’t want to speak for everyone, but that’s literally the first question I’m asked when I play with other people for the first time, “do you know the Nashville numbers.”
@@jburdsinfuse good ol 'merica' incapable of seeing past there own borders... If you said that to a musician in any other country they would piss themselves laughing... It's so funny that you guys call it that 😂 I've got a feeling its nashville thing tbh and not all of America...
I saw so many guys with instruments(including guitars) who didn’t pay attention in Music 1A class. Too cool for school! You gotta be a little nerdy to be a better musician......
Lindsay, The 2 in the Nashville Number System is NEVER automatically a minor. This is a widespread misconception about the NNS. This scale...1, 2m, 3m, 4, 5, 6m, 7dim is NOT the NNS. In the NNS a number by itself will always be played as a basic MAJOR chord. A minor chord MUST have a suffix attached as in 2- or 2m.
Great to hear another perspective on how music works! Everyone has their own understanding of music and by being exposed to more views, one or more of them is bound to "click" with you. Thanks for sharing!
Lindsay, As a musician and producer in Nashville for more than 45 years I can tell you the progression you are using (1,2m,3m,4,5,6m,7dim) is NOT the Nashville Number System. Not only is the 2 chord not usually minor, IT IS NEVER MINOR UNLESS IT HAS A SUFFIX ATTACHED AS IN 2- OR 2m!!! In the NNS a number by itself always is a Major chord...ALWAYS!!! I urge you to correct this ASAP!
@@richard642 The Nashville Number System is simple. In the key of C the NNS is as follows...1= C Major, 2= D Major, 3= E Major, 4= F Major, 5= G Major, 6=A Major, 7= B major...simple! All Major chords! All this nonsense about 2, 3, and 6, minor and 7 dim is just that...nonsense. Anyone who teaches this is wrong, even though they may be sincere. It's easy for someone in Topeka, or Vancouver, or Anytown USA to preach this, but when you live and work in Nashville with some of the greatest musicians on the planet, as I do, you know that the NNS begins with Major chords. Everything else is built on this. Minor chords, diminished chords, augmented chords, and any other chord must, I repeat...MUST... have a suffix attached or it will be played as Major. All I'm trying to do is correct this false concept about the NNS.
She never said it was always minor. In fact, she said it was “usually” a minor. This is probably as far as most people are going to go with theory anyways.
I use the number system on melodies too. It really helps me to remember them when I see it in numbers instead of note names. 115567165. Baaa! Or maybe 6234 3432 5123 2321 for a great Gary Moore solo.
Why is it called Nashville Number System? Because it uses indi-arabic numbers instead of roman numbers? What is the difference? After watching this video, they seam to be the same. 🤔
As a professional musician who knows the Nashville Number System, I was searching for a video to give to a friend to learn the Nashville Number System, I can see how this would be a dreadful video to watch as a novice. She skipped over so much and didn’t explain the WHY it’s a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 or WHAT makes it a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 or what is the difference between major minor diminished. Hoping to see a better beginner NNS video from y’all in the future. 🙏🏼
This video didn't actually teach anything or how to use the system. It was just her picking a key and saying what chords are there. Doesn't explain why the chords are what they are, what differences there are when the key is major vs minor, and doesn't even show anything to help visualize and make sense. It was just her saying "this chord is ALWAYS a minor, USUALLY" but not much else
If the Nashville number system is that good, why do we use letters and not only numbers ? No need for # or b just numbers that would simplify the neck.
Uses sus chords to show majors??? 7dim is leading to one? Only because it is a substitute for dominant 5, a part of 1-5-1, which is the most important movement in western harmony? And what about songs in minor keys? They start with 6? Nashville system? This is basic western music theory. From Europe. My place. Just my 2 cts.
My system is my ear. That’s a good bad thing, because unless you can chart they don’t want you, yet throw a song in my ear and I’ll have it. I may have to cave and just learn it, but my ear is like the devil on my shoulder saying “No no, you don’t need no stinking system , I’m quicker “. The curse of the blessing.
I learned something today. Great video! I use to work security for concerts, I would sometimes see papers left from country bands behind stage and they would be written like that, I wondered what that meant. Now I know it was Nashville number system.
If the music director says the key of the project is a non-modal major key the 2 will be a minor. You can tell by her facial expression that she realized midsentence that she should’ve said “usually” a minor but in her head she was like “OK well there’ are other situation’s where it wouldn’t necessarily be” She should have explained... or edited the video, so that people new to the concept wouldn’t react as some have here... because that tripped a lot of people up and made them discount the whole video...but she actually explained the concept very very well
Not a very good video at all as she hasn't explained from the start that it is a means of categorising chord sequences, or how the chords are derived from the major scale. The claim it helps you to play be ear is highly dubious.
So do I have to move to Nashville to use the Nashville Number System? She seems to imply that it's a Nashville thing. Am a not allowed to use it because I live in Michigan?
I like the way she explains things. No offense Marty because you are a great teacher but I could listen to her explain how to tie shoes and be completely engrossed.
You beat me by 8 hours but I'm still going to put my rant about Western European music being founded on these principles since we stepped out of Gregorian Chant and Plainsong and added another note on top of the pair to put three notes on top of each note of the scale, then four notes etc. Of course there's always somewhere in the US that will claim it as their own.
TH-cam makes me sad, i keep falling in love with super talented beautiful women and makes me realise after 30yrs of playing guitar i'm still a shit guitarist
Pretty much. Just switch the roman numerals in classical theory to numbers and boom: nashville number system. I guess this is an easier pill to swallow than learning "music theory."
Lindsay explained the NNS perfectly and effortlessly. I know the number system, it does make it easier to play with others who know the language, but I hasn't made me a better player, I played for years, decades actually, without knowing the NNS. Is it a necessity to understand, no it's not. Is it nice to know, yeah it is... It's easy to learn, give yourself 5 minutes and you will understand it. I'm a big fan of Lindsays, she is the real deal. a gifted artist to say the least.
Why is this called the Nashville number system? I already knew all this but I thought it was just apart of music theory.. dating back hundreds of years ago. I dont see how this is different than the regular chord numbers you find in guitar teaching books..
Bilb Ono, I studied theory and played In Nashville for a few years. We called them ‘napkin charts’ because you can’t get much more basic. One assumption this method makes is almost everything is diatonic which I see as it’s downfall. I guess it’s strength is transposition and/or aid in those lacking of median level of comp/performance skills.
I love it. Western European music has been based upon these principles for centuries (basically following the Renaissance period when we progressed from Gregorian Chant/PlainSong) yet (Of Course) we must have some place in the good ol' US of A holding them up as their own. Unbelievable.
@@ulflurken221 well, the example you gave is 5 syllables and “I vi IV V” which you would simply say as “one six four five” like we all do in real life is 4 syllables. So I’m not sure how “sixteen forty five” is either more clear or easier 😂 But it’s cute!
Yes, NNS works on the principles that we’ve used to analyze Western Art Music for centuries. However we don’t perform and record the classical cannon looking at one sheet of Roman Numerals or calling them out to each other. And the system we use for analysis doesn’t include any rhythmic information, which the NNS does indicate on its charts. I’m not sure what there is to get so hung about. WAM has been held up as the supreme music ahem for centuries. No one is forgetting about it and it doesn’t need defending lol
760Piper yeah it looks like she is holding a sus2 shape for the A string barre chords. These are neither major nor minor, so it still fits. It’s a also a much easier chord to get to in my opinion so i use them a lot as well.
I can't figure out how people know what chords to play in certain keys (example) the key of G your playing how do you know what chords are in that key? Someone please help me understand this!!!
Guitarist trying to get laid: 'I made this system called the nashville system for communicating music' Teaches basic music theory* Gullible blonde chick: 'omg you are teh genius! Meh lives deh nashville!'...
Cool video. But let's call it what it is. It's "Harmonizing the major" scale. It has been around for a few centuries, way before Nashville itself existed, and doesn't need to be rebranded as "Nashville Number System" ;) 2-cents. Thank you for sharing though.
This system is useful but it has already been invented in classical music (it was just so simple that it was rarely spelt out as it is just the obvious), this reinvention is definitely handy though as you don't have to deal with knowing everything about theory to play (that's a good thing and a bad thing).
If your playing all those fancy numbered chords you just do the math. If you got a 9 in the chord you'll the root, 3rd, 5th then the 7th note and the 2nd. There's your 9. 7+2. For example, if your playing a B7 in a country song, its the B chord plus the 7th note in the major scale. People who use this, like me, toss modes out the door cuz they're kinda useless. 99.9999% of the time you just need the major and minor scale. Look up scott grove nashville number system on youtube. He explains it way better than me.
Mode TERMS...simply gives you interval Identifications. Different scales has different modes. They're basically just Interval Variations of 7 note scales. Different people Blend/mix/ borrow from different scale...or from what they know....KEYS are just PITCH...so it's easier to just say.. Play in C Major....the 1, 5, 6, 4...2, 5, 1...ect. That's just the BASIC ( and people use different TERMS to identify the same MODE....such as Phrygian dominant, Phrygian, Maj3, Spanish Gypsy..ect it's just the 5th mode of Harmonic minor.... It's actaully EASIER than most people MAKES it. If you ccmprehend it in C MAJOR/Amin at first.... becuase you can PUSH DOWN from C MAJOR towards C min More common CHORDS will criss/cross...which create more OPTIONS to play whatever you choose. Create tension or shift KEYS SMOOTHER and quicker.... And you can also PUSH UP from A min towards A MAJOR..at the same time. b3, b6, b7 = the SECOND ARPEGGIOS of the 1, 4, 5 chords from C MAJOR towards min b6 = Harmonic MAJOR ( Ab) b3 = Melodic min ( Eb) b3, b6 = Harmonic min ( Eb, Ab) b3, b6, b7 = Natural min ( Eb, Ab, Bb) reverse the process PUSH UP from A min towards A Major. b3, b6.......A Harmonic min ( G#) b3, Melodic min F#, G# b3, #4 Lydian b3 D#, F#, G# b6 Harmonic MAJOR C#, G# There's other scale.... I'll list it like this...... Harmonic min...........................Melodic min Harmonic min b2 Melodic min b2 Harmonic min b5 Melodic min b5 Harmonic min #4 Melodic min #4 Ion #6 Ion #2, b6... If you get HUNG PUT on terms..and havnt LEARNed the different scale becuase you paid $50K for a third degree in music and duun know jackshiet,,, It's NOT MY FUALT I can also LIST them like this...( i personally dont give a rats if you see this way or not... Aeo maj7 Harmonic min dor maj7 Melodic min phry maj7 Harmonic min b2 mix maj7 Ionian loc Maj7 Ion #6 These are just Modes from other scales... Im simply going to raise the b7 into a LEADING TONE. The same concept as Mix with Leading tone ( maj7) = MAJOR..lmao dor b2 dor b2, maj7 Melodic min b2 dor b5 dor b5 maj7 Melodic min b5 dor #4 dor #4 Maj7 Melodic min #4 aeo b2 aeo b2, Maj7 Harmonic min b2 aeo b5 aeo b5 Maj7 Harmonic min b5 aeo #4 aeo #4 Maj7 Harmonic min #4.... It's EASY to MEMORIZE the 2, 4, b6, 7 are ALL POSSIBLE full diminished whether you COUNT from C MAJOR or A min and or C min AND A MAJOR D, F, Ab, B ( C Hamonic MAJOR and min B, D, F. G# ( A Harmonic and min) So you could play A min D dim E7 into A min Sometime chords are BORROW from parallel min or MAJOR example from C min.....( but you're still playing into C MAJOR.) The Ab Maj and Bb Maj could be borrow from C min. (or other scales too.) It's just for quick reference...You could play G7 into C MAJOR or min or E7 into A Major or A min Anyways.... C MAJOR F Maj....G Maj....Ab Maj....Bb Maj....C MAJOR.. You can continue....( borrow from A melodic min..). D7 , E 7..into A min :-P Im the TOP .1%.....I know my shiet and dont play or sound like the rest of the HEARD.... :-P Becuase..I'll play the Bb as Lydian #6, lydian #5, #6, Lydian #2, #6... Make that bietch.... Maj7 , dominant, Aug, dim. Min7, Min/maj7....as I damn please. While in C MAJOR/Amin... Just for Kicks and Giggles... I'll play A min....Bb Maj, C min, G min, F min E7 into A min or A min Bb Maj Eb Maj F Min Ab Maj G7 into C MAJOR. or this....instead of playing B7 into E Major...all the time... A min G#7 into C# min D dim E 7 into A min F min Ab maj , B dim into C MAJOR
So you just look at the circle of fifths and the 1 4 5 are your major chords and the 2 3 6 are your minor chords and you borrow from the next key to get you 7 chord. Is this the Nashville number system in a nutshell? If so I've known it for a while and didn't even realize.
After getting pretty decent at playing some of the songs on guitar I wanted to learn music theory. I realized a lot of the Nashville number system videos on TH-cam just weren't cutting it. Coming back to Marty was a game changer. It was simple and to the point. Thank you so much Marty and Lindsay Ell for the thoughtful presentation.
Although I can read, I'm very slow because I never invested the time (lazy), so I play 100% by ear, and because I'm fortunate to be able to pick things up quickly, I've just stuck with what works well for me. But I've always been curious about the NNS. Lindsay's lesson explains it so well and it makes perfect sense. Thanks Marty and Lindsay!
Love this lesson great job! I want to see her version waiting in a world to change or how she does as bold as love by Jimi Hendrix she does great versions of both
I did learn more about the Nashville Number System, but I am still learning.The two will always be a minor, usually. (about 6:10) No system is perfect all the time. Wikipedia lists 65 scales because we cannot make up our minds.
Never thought I'd be learning guitar theory from Sweet Dee 😁
LOL holy crap thats funny. So true
Ikr they make it look easy when you are just told what to say and what chords to play
Dannnnnnng
Hell ya. Best comment on TH-cam today 😂
It is a useful system. Another good tip someone told me years ago, is to try playing the guitar without looking at it all the time. It teaches you to use your ears, and you start to rely on muscle memory more too. It also comes in useful if you are going to sing while playing the guitar, as it's hard to sing into a mic and look at the guitar at the same time.
My favorite song written in Nashville numbers: 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111..the end
Also check out Lindsay's latest single 1 4 6m 5 😉
"The two will ALWAYS be a minor, USUALLY..." 🤔 That got me thinking.
Great video! Thank you! Please work some more with Marty. And, I L❤VE your music too BTW!
Usually, unless you change to a different mode of the major scale
I'm not ripping on her. It really was very informative. I just found that statement amusing 🙂 I always do that. Well, usually... sometimes... mostly... unless, occasionally... okay now and then... definitely frequently 😉
UNLESS IT’S A SECONDARY DOMINANT
It's like Sex Panther. 60% of the time it works 100% of the time. It's science.
I looked too fast and thought that she was Marty in a wig
Kinda wish she was
Hahaha
Me: sees the paper full of numbers
My brain: I'm out
Me: 😐
Okay so i may finally understand this. So is each Key of a songs whether its G or A or whatever, do they all have their own system of chords or are they same as the G Key she just explained? Is every key (Maj - Min - Min - Maj - Maj - Dim - Maj) ?
Same for any key, except you have the end of it wrong. It's 1. maj 2. min 3. min 4. maj 5. maj 6. min 7. dim
Ken Sharp thank you!
@@Tuhqa Every major key. It works by building triads on each note of the scale. Minor keys are totally different. The seventh note of the scale is actually a half diminished flattened fifth but that happens when you add the fourth note over the triad and is maybe a bit farther along than this lesson. Four notes built on the b (7th degree of a C major scale) will give you B, D, F, A which forms a m7b5 chord.
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I got an ad for fender play before this...
WHO NEEDS THAT WHEN YOU HAVE MARTY!
Yeah don't ever pay for Thursday lessons in this day and age! th-cam.com/video/aQFnlH9mF7o/w-d-xo.html
The 2 chord is always minor usually. That was funny
Yep, thats where my ears switched off.
Don't think she is aware of the fact that there are minor keys and major keys 😂 some system...
I'm not too knowledgeable on music theory, could you explain to me why the 2 chord is not always usually minor?
@@andrewkim7147 there is a pattern to establish which chords are in any given key. The pattern for a major key is different from a minor key. So in major keys it's always going to be minor and in minor keys it's always major. 👍
@@stuartlawler2411 Ahhhh I see. Thanks so much!
A song that explains this system is Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
And it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth. The minor fall and the major lift.
The lyrics help you memorize the chord sequence
She's really cool! Cool video!
Os Marty: that finish on your strat is amazing! What finish is that?
I think the finish is called blue. 🙄😏
Or to be more precise, it's probably a "lake placid blue".
That isn't nashville? that is just standard music theory? I was expecting something new.
The Nashville world was the number chart no notes just key and numbers change the key the numbers stay the same. Yes If you know the keys you know the notes same thing but the Sessions guys do via numbers not Music notation.
Hello, but the roman numeral 'standard' way is the same, if you read a II V I on a chart its the same concept. I guess its just a less intimidating version maybe. if it works it works. I didn't comment to trash the idea, i was excited about learning a new system. It did look like there were some more notation
nuances, but the video finished before they were explained.
Toby Hodkinson it’s the exact same thing. It’s just they’ve switched the Roman numerals for numbers. This was systematized by catholic monks, not Nashville cowboys
Love Lindsey Ell! She is awesome. The causal hang out feeling of the lesson about Nashville numbers is great. Marty I like where you are going with having guest muscians teach little bits of healthy guitar snacks for the mind to chew on. Please keep it up.
Thanks, Lindsay - the way you explained and demonstrated the system was the best I've heard. Can't get that from a book. Thanks for taking the time to teach this.
Nashville ? This is the same in all western music. This has been around forever. Never heard it referred to as the Nashville system.
Kelly Conroy do you play country? I’m in Texas and country bands and P&W, this is just the way bands communicate.
@@jburdsinfuse not really. Mostly Rock.
@@jburdsinfuse this is the way every musician ever communicates...
stuart lawler I didn’t want to speak for everyone, but that’s literally the first question I’m asked when I play with other people for the first time, “do you know the Nashville numbers.”
@@jburdsinfuse good ol 'merica' incapable of seeing past there own borders... If you said that to a musician in any other country they would piss themselves laughing... It's so funny that you guys call it that 😂 I've got a feeling its nashville thing tbh and not all of America...
I saw so many guys with instruments(including guitars) who didn’t
pay attention in Music 1A class.
Too cool for school!
You gotta be a little nerdy to be a better musician......
Lindsay, The 2 in the Nashville Number System is NEVER automatically a minor. This is a widespread misconception about the NNS. This scale...1, 2m, 3m, 4, 5, 6m, 7dim is NOT the NNS. In the NNS a number by itself will always be played as a basic MAJOR chord. A minor chord MUST have a suffix attached as in 2- or 2m.
😡 Why was this secret hidden from me for so long? Thanks Marty and Lindsay for exposing this.
Thank you Lindsay & Marty for explaining the Nashville number system. Appreciate it!
Great to hear another perspective on how music works! Everyone has their own understanding of music and by being exposed to more views, one or more of them is bound to "click" with you. Thanks for sharing!
This is nothing different or new, just the chords of the major scale. Which are the same for every mode of the major scale, just in a different order.
What happens when the first chord is not a major but a minor what's the second and third etc.?
Lindsay, As a musician and producer in Nashville for more than 45 years I can tell you the progression you are using (1,2m,3m,4,5,6m,7dim) is NOT the Nashville Number System. Not only is the 2 chord not usually minor, IT IS NEVER MINOR UNLESS IT HAS A SUFFIX ATTACHED AS IN 2- OR 2m!!! In the NNS a number by itself always is a Major chord...ALWAYS!!! I urge you to correct this ASAP!
Oh here you are again video number 3 and your saying this one is wrong too. A right video? 🤷♂️
@@richard642 The Nashville Number System is simple. In the key of C the NNS is as follows...1= C Major, 2= D Major, 3= E Major, 4= F Major, 5= G Major, 6=A Major, 7= B major...simple! All Major chords! All this nonsense about 2, 3, and 6, minor and 7 dim is just that...nonsense. Anyone who teaches this is wrong, even though they may be sincere. It's easy for someone in Topeka, or Vancouver, or Anytown USA to preach this, but when you live and work in Nashville with some of the greatest musicians on the planet, as I do, you know that the NNS begins with Major chords. Everything else is built on this. Minor chords, diminished chords, augmented chords, and any other chord must, I repeat...MUST... have a suffix attached or it will be played as Major. All I'm trying to do is correct this false concept about the NNS.
She never said it was always minor. In fact, she said it was “usually” a minor. This is probably as far as most people are going to go with theory anyways.
So just the blues I, IV, V with the gaps filled in?
It actually predates Nashville by about 300 or so years
This is assuming a major scale, right?
Well shit, if she can figure it out. 😂
I use the number system on melodies too. It really helps me to remember them when I see it in numbers instead of note names. 115567165. Baaa! Or maybe 6234 3432 5123 2321 for a great Gary Moore solo.
Thank you so so much for this video Marty and thank you so much Lindsey L for this awesome lesson! 😍👏💖
The 2 is "always" a minor chord........ "usually"....... LMAO!!!!
I didn't know this stuff was called the Nashville number system but I use it all the time, really important folks!!!
Why is it called Nashville Number System? Because it uses indi-arabic numbers instead of roman numbers? What is the difference? After watching this video, they seam to be the same. 🤔
AMAZING!
Can you teach the song: "owner of a lonely heart"?
As a professional musician who knows the Nashville Number System, I was searching for a video to give to a friend to learn the Nashville Number System, I can see how this would be a dreadful video to watch as a novice. She skipped over so much and didn’t explain the WHY it’s a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 or WHAT makes it a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 or what is the difference between major minor diminished.
Hoping to see a better beginner NNS video from y’all in the future. 🙏🏼
This video didn't actually teach anything or how to use the system. It was just her picking a key and saying what chords are there. Doesn't explain why the chords are what they are, what differences there are when the key is major vs minor, and doesn't even show anything to help visualize and make sense. It was just her saying "this chord is ALWAYS a minor, USUALLY" but not much else
If the Nashville number system is that good, why do we use letters and not only numbers ? No need for # or b just numbers that would simplify the neck.
Uses sus chords to show majors??? 7dim is leading to one? Only because it is a substitute for dominant 5, a part of 1-5-1, which is the most important movement in western harmony?
And what about songs in minor keys? They start with 6?
Nashville system? This is basic western music theory. From Europe. My place.
Just my 2 cts.
My system is my ear. That’s a good bad thing, because unless you can chart they don’t want you, yet throw a song in my ear and I’ll have it.
I may have to cave and just learn it, but my ear is like the devil on my shoulder saying “No no, you don’t need no stinking system , I’m quicker “.
The curse of the blessing.
Amazing Lindsay ..Thank you ,X.. wish I had a music teacher like you way back when I was in school
Can you do Big Black Car by Gregory Alan Isakov
I learned something today. Great video! I use to work security for concerts, I would sometimes see papers left from country bands behind stage and they would be written like that, I wondered what that meant. Now I know it was Nashville number system.
If the music director says the key of the project is a non-modal major key the 2 will be a minor.
You can tell by her facial expression that she realized midsentence that she should’ve said “usually” a minor but in her head she was like “OK well there’ are other situation’s where it wouldn’t necessarily be”
She should have explained... or edited the video, so that people new to the concept wouldn’t react as some have here... because that tripped a lot of people up and made them discount the whole video...but she actually explained the concept very very well
In the 12 bar blues, how is that a D major or a C major, using only your pinky and your ringfinger, confused???
Well done Lindsay Ell! Love the Nashville number system, and your explanation. Thanks Marty....you two are Monster players
Not a very good video at all as she hasn't explained from the start that it is a means of categorising chord sequences, or how the chords are derived from the major scale. The claim it helps you to play be ear is highly dubious.
So do I have to move to Nashville to use the Nashville Number System? She seems to imply that it's a Nashville thing. Am a not allowed to use it because I live in Michigan?
I like the way she explains things. No offense Marty because you are a great teacher but I could listen to her explain how to tie shoes and be completely engrossed.
Where is the link to Lindsey's channel?
I'm looking in the description
Looks like it's very well hidden
she plays great, looks great..but that theory..not for me...will check next video
Ahem "Nashville number system" that has been around since the 1600s and probably earlier
You beat me by 8 hours but I'm still going to put my rant about Western European music being founded on these principles since we stepped out of Gregorian Chant and Plainsong and added another note on top of the pair to put three notes on top of each note of the scale, then four notes etc. Of course there's always somewhere in the US that will claim it as their own.
TH-cam makes me sad, i keep falling in love with super talented beautiful women and makes me realise after 30yrs of playing guitar i'm still a shit guitarist
Isn’t this just classical theory?
it certainly is not
lmao not at all
Pretty much. Just switch the roman numerals in classical theory to numbers and boom: nashville number system. I guess this is an easier pill to swallow than learning "music theory."
Great lesson. Thanks for having her on Marty
I have no idea what is being said in this video. What knowledge am I missing that this sounds like foreign language to me?
Lindsay explained the NNS perfectly and effortlessly. I know the number system, it does make it easier to play with others who know the language, but I hasn't made me a better player, I played for years, decades actually, without knowing the NNS. Is it a necessity to understand, no it's not. Is it nice to know, yeah it is... It's easy to learn, give yourself 5 minutes and you will understand it. I'm a big fan of Lindsays, she is the real deal. a gifted artist to say the least.
Why is this called the Nashville number system? I already knew all this but I thought it was just apart of music theory.. dating back hundreds of years ago. I dont see how this is different than the regular chord numbers you find in guitar teaching books..
Bilb Ono, I studied theory and played In Nashville for a few years. We called them ‘napkin charts’ because you can’t get much more basic. One assumption this method makes is almost everything is diatonic which I see as it’s downfall. I guess it’s strength is transposition and/or aid in those lacking of median level of comp/performance skills.
She’s cool
given her posture, her favourite guitarist must be uncle Larry :D
Lindsay with an Ell but I ain’t taking losses 🥳👌(thank you Lindsay)
I love it. Western European music has been based upon these principles for centuries (basically following the Renaissance period when we progressed from Gregorian Chant/PlainSong) yet (Of Course) we must have some place in the good ol' US of A holding them up as their own. Unbelievable.
Skinny Karlos I was also confused about how this was different than the Roman Numeral system.
@@ulflurken221 well, the example you gave is 5 syllables and “I vi IV V” which you would simply say as “one six four five” like we all do in real life is 4 syllables. So I’m not sure how “sixteen forty five” is either more clear or easier 😂 But it’s cute!
Yes, NNS works on the principles that we’ve used to analyze Western Art Music for centuries. However we don’t perform and record the classical cannon looking at one sheet of Roman Numerals or calling them out to each other. And the system we use for analysis doesn’t include any rhythmic information, which the NNS does indicate on its charts. I’m not sure what there is to get so hung about. WAM has been held up as the supreme music ahem for centuries. No one is forgetting about it and it doesn’t need defending lol
This is always hard for me so when they say the 🗝️ key what exactly does that mean is it the root note that tells me the key help 🆘
Good explanation of the system. Is she playing some sort of suspended major chord? I hear a different voicing when she plays the 4 and 5. Cool sound.
760Piper yeah it looks like she is holding a sus2 shape for the A string barre chords. These are neither major nor minor, so it still fits. It’s a also a much easier chord to get to in my opinion so i use them a lot as well.
760Piper yeah, I heard a suspended chord in there. But depends on the root how you interpret.
Jamey Doulin Yeah. It sounds nice. I’ll try it.
Sooo gutted I couldn't see her at the Country 2 Country in Amsterdam.
Also a really useful video!
Lindsey 😘😘💚 ur the best
Hey Marty 👋 top fan here 💯🔥
yeah, this is way too advanced for me, what the hells a 7th chord
Play the 1,2,3,4,5 chords in sequence and you've learned the verse of what some consider, to be the best rock song ever - Like a Rolling Stone.
Jim Brew Then Dylan comes back down. 54321. He had probably just learnt the system😁.
I can't figure out how people know what chords to play in certain keys (example) the key of G your playing how do you know what chords are in that key? Someone please help me understand this!!!
Play the G major scale. Those are the notes and chords in that key.
I know this but never knew it was called the nashville number system
How did Nashville appropriate basic chord scales?
We need lindsay on another live stream
Not me guessing E for every minor and it being the last one 🤣
“The 2 will always be a minor. Usually.” 😂
Marty what model Strat is that at the beginning of the video?
Guitarist trying to get laid: 'I made this system called the nashville system for communicating music'
Teaches basic music theory*
Gullible blonde chick: 'omg you are teh genius! Meh lives deh nashville!'...
Works great if you want to play repetitive crap.
Cool video. But let's call it what it is. It's "Harmonizing the major" scale.
It has been around for a few centuries, way before Nashville itself existed, and doesn't need to be rebranded as "Nashville Number System" ;)
2-cents.
Thank you for sharing though.
It’s been around since the 50s. It wasn’t rebranded, it was developed. Your outrage is hilarious.
It's a good starter instructional. I still find the notation (for major scale chords) I ii iii IV V vi vii° to be more intuitive
It is good but he whole diminished chord thing really throws me out.
Who is He? Who Developed this System?
Please make a video on how to play tenacious D songs
This system is useful but it has already been invented in classical music (it was just so simple that it was rarely spelt out as it is just the obvious), this reinvention is definitely handy though as you don't have to deal with knowing everything about theory to play (that's a good thing and a bad thing).
Nice! Lindsay should be a regular on the show. Good on ya, Marty🤘
She said "The 2 will always be a minor, usually."
Link to Lindsay’s music is not in the description?
“The 2 will always be a minor, usually” lol
Marty's got the best snapchat filter in the game
A want to learn how to play song 2 by blur please
Always loved and admired the Nashville scene! So much to come out of their for contributing to music!
Hmmm I like her she has the same strat as i do....
What is the common name for a major 3 chord.
What about the notation of 7°, 11°, 13°, +4 etc. And how do they do with modes notations (Minor, Dorian, Mixo etc.?)
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If your playing all those fancy numbered chords you just do the math. If you got a 9 in the chord you'll the root, 3rd, 5th then the 7th note and the 2nd. There's your 9. 7+2. For example, if your playing a B7 in a country song, its the B chord plus the 7th note in the major scale. People who use this, like me, toss modes out the door cuz they're kinda useless. 99.9999% of the time you just need the major and minor scale. Look up scott grove nashville number system on youtube. He explains it way better than me.
@@misterknightowlandco much better
Mode TERMS...simply gives you interval Identifications.
Different scales has different modes.
They're basically just Interval Variations of 7 note scales.
Different people Blend/mix/ borrow from different scale...or from what they know....KEYS are just PITCH...so it's easier to just say..
Play in C Major....the 1, 5, 6, 4...2, 5, 1...ect.
That's just the BASIC ( and people use different TERMS to identify the same MODE....such as Phrygian dominant, Phrygian, Maj3, Spanish Gypsy..ect
it's just the 5th mode of Harmonic minor....
It's actaully EASIER than most people MAKES it.
If you ccmprehend it in C MAJOR/Amin at first....
becuase you can PUSH DOWN from C MAJOR towards C min
More common CHORDS will criss/cross...which create more OPTIONS
to play whatever you choose. Create tension or shift KEYS SMOOTHER
and quicker....
And you can also PUSH UP from A min towards A MAJOR..at the same time.
b3, b6, b7 = the SECOND ARPEGGIOS of the 1, 4, 5 chords
from C MAJOR towards min
b6 = Harmonic MAJOR ( Ab)
b3 = Melodic min ( Eb)
b3, b6 = Harmonic min ( Eb, Ab)
b3, b6, b7 = Natural min ( Eb, Ab, Bb)
reverse the process PUSH UP from A min towards A Major.
b3, b6.......A Harmonic min ( G#)
b3, Melodic min F#, G#
b3, #4 Lydian b3 D#, F#, G#
b6 Harmonic MAJOR C#, G#
There's other scale....
I'll list it like this......
Harmonic min...........................Melodic min
Harmonic min b2 Melodic min b2
Harmonic min b5 Melodic min b5
Harmonic min #4 Melodic min #4
Ion #6
Ion #2, b6...
If you get HUNG PUT on terms..and havnt LEARNed the different scale
becuase you paid $50K for a third degree in music and duun know jackshiet,,,
It's NOT MY FUALT
I can also LIST them like this...( i personally dont give a rats if you see this
way or not...
Aeo maj7 Harmonic min
dor maj7 Melodic min
phry maj7 Harmonic min b2
mix maj7 Ionian
loc Maj7 Ion #6
These are just Modes from other scales...
Im simply going to raise the b7 into a LEADING TONE.
The same concept as Mix with Leading tone ( maj7) = MAJOR..lmao
dor b2 dor b2, maj7 Melodic min b2
dor b5 dor b5 maj7 Melodic min b5
dor #4 dor #4 Maj7 Melodic min #4
aeo b2 aeo b2, Maj7 Harmonic min b2
aeo b5 aeo b5 Maj7 Harmonic min b5
aeo #4 aeo #4 Maj7 Harmonic min #4....
It's EASY to MEMORIZE the 2, 4, b6, 7 are ALL POSSIBLE full diminished
whether you COUNT from C MAJOR or A min
and or C min AND A MAJOR
D, F, Ab, B ( C Hamonic MAJOR and min
B, D, F. G# ( A Harmonic and min)
So you could play A min D dim E7 into A min
Sometime chords are BORROW from parallel min or MAJOR
example from C min.....( but you're still playing into C MAJOR.)
The Ab Maj and Bb Maj could be borrow from C min. (or other scales too.)
It's just for quick reference...You could play G7 into C MAJOR or min
or E7 into A Major or A min
Anyways....
C MAJOR F Maj....G Maj....Ab Maj....Bb Maj....C MAJOR..
You can continue....( borrow from A melodic min..).
D7 , E 7..into A min :-P
Im the TOP .1%.....I know my shiet and dont play or sound like the rest
of the HEARD.... :-P
Becuase..I'll play the Bb as Lydian #6, lydian #5, #6, Lydian #2, #6...
Make that bietch....
Maj7 , dominant, Aug, dim. Min7, Min/maj7....as I damn please.
While in C MAJOR/Amin...
Just for Kicks and Giggles...
I'll play A min....Bb Maj, C min, G min, F min E7 into A min
or A min Bb Maj Eb Maj F Min Ab Maj G7 into C MAJOR.
or this....instead of playing B7 into E Major...all the time...
A min G#7 into C# min D dim E 7 into A min F min Ab maj , B dim into C MAJOR
@@oneeyemonster3262 thats the simplest and easiest to understand explanation of modes I've heard. Thanks for the info!
So you just look at the circle of fifths and the 1 4 5 are your major chords and the 2 3 6 are your minor chords and you borrow from the next key to get you 7 chord. Is this the Nashville number system in a nutshell? If so I've known it for a while and didn't even realize.
So....basically just modes?
God bless you Marty! Keep the good work on!
You should make covers
After getting pretty decent at playing some of the songs on guitar I wanted to learn music theory. I realized a lot of the Nashville number system videos on TH-cam just weren't cutting it. Coming back to Marty was a game changer. It was simple and to the point. Thank you so much Marty and Lindsay Ell for the thoughtful presentation.
Although I can read, I'm very slow because I never invested the time (lazy), so I play 100% by ear, and because I'm fortunate to be able to pick things up quickly, I've just stuck with what works well for me. But I've always been curious about the NNS. Lindsay's lesson explains it so well and it makes perfect sense. Thanks Marty and Lindsay!
Learning this changed my life!!
Why do some musicians call a 6# a 7 ?
Love this lesson great job! I want to see her version waiting in a world to change or how she does as bold as love by Jimi Hendrix she does great versions of both
I did learn more about the Nashville Number System, but I am still learning.The two will always be a minor, usually. (about 6:10) No system is perfect all the time. Wikipedia lists 65 scales because we cannot make up our minds.
It’s bigger than Nashville 😑it’s just the number system period! Want to be Even cooler, learn scales by notes AND names 😎
I am SCREAMING the Nashville Numbering System Marty Thank YOU Lindsay Ell's ! Just finished Theory Class I KNOW what your saying Girl........Excited.