It has been around for about four hundred years, but sometime during the past fifty years, Nashville got the credit. It is an easy tool to use if you understand how music works. The Nashville Number System is a trick that musicians use to figure out chord progressions on the fly. The Nashville Number System was compiled and published in a book by Chas. It resembles the Roman numeral and figured bass systems traditionally used to transcribe a chord progression since the 1700s. It was developed by Neal Matthews in the late 1950s as a simplified system for the Jordanaires to use in the studio and further developed by Charlie McCoy. The Nashville Number System is a method of transcribing music by denoting the scale degree on which a chord is built. ( June 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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