The uppercase Roman Numerals represent Major chords, and the lowercase Roman Numerals represent minor chords. You may have noticed that some are upper case and some are lower case. There's one change though when we talk about chords in a key, we switch to Roman Numerals: And you guessed it, C is the one chord, D is the two chord, etc. This is how we make up our chords, by combining notes intentionally.Īll Chords in a key also have numeric representation. The D is the second degree in the scale, and so on. When we look at the above, we can see the C note is the first note (or degree) in the scale. Each note in a scale can be linked to a number, which represents its position in the scale. Don’t panic, basic music theory is just elementary level math. Let’s start with a touch of music theory. Let’s take a look at each system and find out what exactly they are, and which one might be the best for your application. And provide greater performance direction in the case of the NNS. If you have basic understandings of the Major scale, these are actually very easy to read. The reason in both cases is we’re replacing the actual chords (like C-G-Am-F) with some sort of numeric representation. Even if that key changes during rehearsal. One chart can be used by every musician (even drummers, especially with the Nashville Number System), in any key. The better solution is using either the Roman Numeral Analysis or Nashville Number System. The guitarist with the capo will be playing in a different “key” (different shapes) so the chart used by the bassist would be useless. How many chart variations would you need to write out? More than one, which is too many. Let’s say you have a capo’d rhythm guitar and a bass in your group. You’re probably inferring, that I’m implying, (and now I'm stating) that chord charts are a better solution in most cases.Īnd you’d be right.
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