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Nashville notation as chord symbols
From: |
Stan Mulder |
Subject: |
Nashville notation as chord symbols |
Date: |
Tue, 19 May 2015 19:31:10 +0000 (UTC) |
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Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
I would like to use Nashville Notation for chord symbols using Arabic
numbers instead of Roman numbers. Is there any way to do this?
So in the key of C:
C=1
D=2
E=3
F=4
G=5
A=6
B=7
So a blues progression might be:
1 4 5⁷
Instead of
C F G⁷
So a B-flat7 chord in the key of C might be represented at either
♭7⁷ or 7♭⁷.
I think there is a great deal of value with what might be called "relative
notation" in this way. It is a hard system to learn, but once learned can
make key transpositions much easier.
For my projects I would like to write regular chord symbols, but above or
below those symbols I would have the Nashville number thing.
After working with this system, I think all the fake books in the world
should be done this way.
- Nashville notation as chord symbols,
Stan Mulder <=