You can in turn, use this formula to create the major scale in any key. I also said in my Guitar Number System we will note it with numbers, 2-2-1-2-2-2-1.

If you will remember, the formula for the major scale traditionally is whole step, whole step, half step, then 3 more whole steps and another half step, sometimes noted W-W-H-W-W-W-H. In the last lesson, I talked about half steps and whole steps and how in certain orders, I call formulas, can be used to create chords and scales. The major scale using the Nashville Number System would be 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8. With this system, the scale degrees of the major scale, C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C, are changed to numbers. Charlie McCoy, A Nashville session musician and music leader of the Hee Haw television show, took what Matthews created and, together with some of his recording session friends came up with the system musicians use today.ДЇor musicians, the Nashville Number System is a chord charting system that makes charting and transposing keys easier and quicker. When Neil Matthews created the original Nashville Number System in the late 1950вЂ™s, he was looking for a way to help he and the other members of the Jordanaires, Elvis PresleyвЂ™s Vocal Backup Group, learn vocal parts more quickly.

There are some differences but I will point those out as we go along. The Nashville Number system is the greatest thing ever invented for the working musician. Thanks in advance to NVSongwriter for this excellent article.

Nashville number system chart for 7ths