- Spiral-bound: 108 pages
- Publisher: Nashville Number System; 6th Bk&CD edition (April 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0963090666
- ISBN-13: 978-0963090669
- Product Dimensions: 28.7 x 22.4 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,094,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Nashville Number System was originally written and published in 1988 by Chas. He has rigorously updated and edited the book for each of 6 subsequent editions. Featured here is the 2001 printing and 6th edition of The Nashville Number System; now expanded with the inclusion of the cd, 1511. By word of mouth, it has become the most recommended source for learning the Number System.
The Nashville Number System is used as a text at Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Belmont University, in Nashville, and MTSU in Murfreesboro,TN.
From the Author
I had heard about the Number System even before I moved to Nashville. I knew what 1 4 5 meant and thought I had all I needed to know before moving up to Music City. However, I quickly found out that there were many more details involved in reading and writing a number chart. It’s scary.
The best way to understand how a number chart works is by listening to the song as you’re reading the chart. So, I recorded some of my original instrumentals on a cd and included them with the book. The cd, 1511 (“Fifteen Eleven”), contains 9 songs with several different styles represented. These songs give an opportunity to write charts which demonstrate many of the number system tools. The idea is to watch the bars go by as you listen to the music. For example, you will hear how to count a “diamond” while you see how it’s drawn on the chart; or listen to a syncopated rhythm as you count the beats. With the cd, you will see and feel how to count bars.
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4.8 out of 5 stars (16 customer reviews)
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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A Nashville Cat Who Knows the Nashville Technique!, Sep 15 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Nashville Number System (Spiral-bound)
Charles does it right ... if you want to understand the Nashville Number System, in plain simple english, this is the book I recommend in my tutorial at GuitarNotes.Com and at my site.~~Alan Horvath
17 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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An excellent resource for an excellent tool!, May 28 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Nashville Number System (Spiral-bound)
So, what happens is, you're playin' with a bunch of Nashville dudes, see? They're cuttin' this song, and the big-shot says, "progression is 1, 4, 5 ... the chorus goes: 4, 5, 6minor - three times; fourth time, it goes 4, 5, 1." What do you do? You go, "what key is it in?" 'Course, you should be able to figure that out by a quick listen, and a tap or two on your guitar ... but even if you don't, someone's bound to think you're just lazy, and blurt out, "It's in G, man!" So, okay ... big deal. You can count! You know the song goes G, C, D ... exept in the chorus, which goes C, D, Em - three times, and then C, D, G the fourth time. The cool thing about it, is when the vocalist arrives and he/she can't sing in the key of G! ... it has to be in the key of D! Nothing changes. The progression is still 1, 4, 5, etc. -- only now you're starting from D as #1 and counting. So, now we're gonna play D, G, A ... and the chorus goes G, A, Bm - three times; fourth time is G, A, D. Pretty simple, huh? Everybody can do their private math, quietly, and, in ten minutes when the tape starts to roll, everybody sounds like they knew what was up all the time. The vocalist is very impressed! And, most of all, the guy cutting the checks is smiling.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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of Great Benefit to bands / musicians., July 24 2008
By David Swart - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Nashville Number System (Spiral-bound)
I wouldn't say much of this book is original, but nevertheless very very useful. Having played with multiple bands over the past 15 years, it would be so helpful for musicians to learn this method to make playing together in different keys / transposing / writing etc be so much easier in a band format.
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