Spiral bound with CD, 128 pages
English language
Published 2019
In the late 50's, Neil Matthews devised a musical number system for the Jordanaires to use in the studio. Charlie McCoy and fellow studio musicians began adapting Matthews' number system into chord charts. The Nashville Number System has evolved into a complete method of writing chord charts and melodies---combining Nashville shorthand with formal notation standards.
The Nashville Number System is 128 pages with a step by step method of how to write a Nashville number chart for any song. Included with each NNS book in Edition 11 is the CD download, "String Of Pearls". This is a 10 song album of instrumentals, including, Amazing Grace. I walk you through the details of each song and explain the Number System tools used to write the charts. Now, while listening to the CD you can see and hear how Nashville number charts work.
If you think you might need to understand Nashville Numbers, get this book. I found it much more approachable and understandable than half a dozen YouTube videos. It comes with a bunch of great example charts with audio tracks so you can see how different people chart the same songs, and get practice doing it yourself.
