Chords & Numbers
Published on March 22nd, 2003 in Ask Brendan Columns
Ask Brendan is a monthly column where Guitar Educator, Brendan Burns, answers questions about music and the pursuit of Understanding and Mastering the guitar.
CHORDS & NUMBERS
March 03
Q: I was looking through a chord lead-sheet I found on Olga.net and it had numbers instead of chords. What do the numbers mean?
B: It could either be the Nashville Number System, Classical Notation, or Jazz Chord Analysis. Either way, the concept is the same. The numbers signify the degrees of the major scale.
Original Chord Progression (key of C):
| C | Am | F | G |
Numeric Analysis:
| 1 | 6m | 4 | 5 |
Transposition into new (key of G):
| G | Em | C | G |
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