Nashville Number System BREAKDOWN (music theory made easy)!

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[fishypaw]

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.

[giz]

Never thought I'd be learning guitar theory from Sweet Dee 😁

[nickbruno]

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.

[PapaE-ekce]

I got an ad for fender play before this...
WHO NEEDS THAT WHEN YOU HAVE MARTY!

[nicderianed]

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

[jean-paulhorre]

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.

[Mark.R.]

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.

[RJRonquillo]

My favorite song written in Nashville numbers: end

[IgetsnoplayTaylor]

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 YouTube 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.

[SundayMatinee]

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!

[roberto]

"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!

[chimas]

Me: sees the paper full of numbers
My brain: I'm out
Me: 😐

[Armead_Vista]

I looked too fast and thought that she was Marty in a wig

[Tuhqa]

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) ?

[NekroSlaughter]

Never heard of this till a post just popped up on fb and someone mentioned it.


So

1 major

2 Minor
3minor

4Major
5Major
6Major

7Diminished


Got it.

[jcburger]

Thank you Lindsay & Marty for explaining the Nashville number system. Appreciate it!

[petecolorado]

Thank you for explaining the Nashville seven system to someone like me hearing the system for the very first time. I will have to learn this system as a songwriter it helps enormously and saves time.

[itchybrother]

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

[garrygaggles]

Amazing Lindsay ..Thank you, X.. wish I had a music teacher like you way back when I was in school

[brinkybrinkz]

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.