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Topic: Nashvill Numbering System
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Hans Holzherr
Member From: Ostermundigen, Switzerland
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posted 01 May 2006 08:55 AM
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The NNS is also a great tool for shortening vocals reheasal time because it's used to write the melodies for the voices, where the numbers signify the scale notes of the key that the song is in, regardless of the chord progression. So far, so good. But one obstacle I encountered was the bridge in "Buckaroo" where it goes from the 1 chord to the +5 chord and on to the -3 chord etc. That was completely messing up my little system, and I wish someone would tell me how to write melodies against key-unrelated chords. Hans |
basilh
Member From: United Kingdom
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posted 01 May 2006 11:03 AM
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Hans, Where is the change you're referring to ?------------------
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Steel players do it without fretting
 
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Ron Sodos
Member From: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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posted 01 May 2006 01:49 PM
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Dr Hugh Jeffereys. I always add my 2 cents here whenever I hear "The Nashville Number System". What a crock!!! How about calling it the Warsaw number system, or the Prague number system. It was probably created somewhere in Poland or Chekoslovakia anyway.
I learned 1 (major), 2 (minor), 3 (minor), 4(major), 5 (major), 6 (minor), 7 (diminshed) in my orchestra class in NYC in 1960 +/- long before it was ever called the Nashville Number System. Whenever I hear it called that it actually makes me angry. But that is my problem isn't it. LOL.......  [This message was edited by Ron Sodos on 01 May 2006 at 01:50 PM.] |
Hans Holzherr
Member From: Ostermundigen, Switzerland
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posted 02 May 2006 03:54 AM
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Basil, it's 1:12 into the song where it goes "heaven knows..." and the harmony voices echoing.Hans |
David L. Donald
Member From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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posted 02 May 2006 06:07 AM
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I didn't read every post yet, but,
For me the beauty of the Nashville/Berklee number systems is for instant transposition.You do a song on F for the male singer,
but suddenly you need to do it in D for the girl singer. Or even an unexpected mid song transposition of the whole frame work. With numbers you just change your refrence point 1/I and keep going. This for me is also just as helpful on heavey jazz tunes,
where transposition is MUCH more difficult. And often more requested on the fly.<
[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 02 May 2006 at 06:09 AM.] |
David Doggett
Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 02 May 2006 06:35 AM
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Having learned the number system while taking classical piano lessons in grade school in the'50s, it was immensely helpful when I took up guitar and started learning guitar chords. It was even more helpful when I took up Dobro and lap steel, because the fret counting relationships to the number system are the same in every key. Finally when I took up pedal steel, the number system became my main way of learning the functions of all the pedals and levers. It seems to me that knowing the number system is essential for learning pedal steel. This instrument is unique in that the fret counting rules, strings, grips, pedals and knees are all identical in all keys in relation to the number system. I can play in any key, just by changing my home fret. Outside of a few common keys, I have no idea what the note and chord names are for the notes and chords I am playing - it's all according to the number system. Unfortunately that makes reading music difficult. But transposing keys is a breeze. ------------------
Student of the Steel: Zum uni, Fender tube amps, squareneck and roundneck resos, tenor sax, keyboards |
Ron Sodos
Member From: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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posted 02 May 2006 02:53 PM
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You guys make it sound like such a big deal. Knowing the number system is as simple as Do Re Mi. Its music, thats all. 1 = 1, 4 = 4 and 5 = 5. Why is that so awesome. I learned it at 8 years old. I never called it anything other that learrning music. Just like the key of G has F# and the key F has Bb. |
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