Chords for Nashville Number System BREAKDOWN (music theory made easy)!

[G] Hey, what's up you guys?
Marty Schwartz here with Marty Music.
We got something a little different for this video.
I've got a special guest named Lindsay Elle, who's an amazing artist, singer-songwriter, and guitar player.
She recently had a number one on the country charts, so big congrats to her.
You can check her out in the link in the description on her [F] own YouTube channel.
[C] But in the meantime, let's [Gm] live it up for Lindsay Elle.
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ Hey guys, I'm Lindsay Elle.
Marty, thank you so much for that introduction.
I am going to be over here teaching you guys a few lessons.
Today we're going to talk about the Nashville Number System.
I love the Nashville Number System so much.
Ever since I moved to Nashville about ten years ago, I have been using this, and I use it pretty much every day of my life.
The coolest part about the Nashville Number System is it teaches you the key center of a song.
So you can really understand the chords you're trying to play and the relationship to one another.
And the coolest part about it is once you learn how the Nashville Number System works, you can transcribe a song.
You can play it in any key.
You can play stuff up and down the neck.
And you just need to learn one system.
So he developed a system that was based on numbers.
You can read a chart, basically, where it just has a bunch of numbers on a page.
Studio musicians sit down in their tracking session, and they look at this chart, and they can play the whole song.
They know what every chord means, and each number refers to a chord.
The coolest thing about the Nashville Number System is regardless of what key, the numbers stay the same.
So let's break this down a little bit.
The numbers refer to the tonal steps of a scale.
Now let me also say that every time in a key, you will have certain degrees that always mean certain things.
Let's say we're in the key of G, for instance.
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_ _ _ So the two will always be a minor, usually.
And so when we see a two, often if you're looking at a chart, it's usually a minor chord.
So in our key of G, if the one is a G, _ _ _ [Am] the two would be an A minor. _ _
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The _ _ _ three would also be a minor.
So that would [B] be your B minor.
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_ _ _ The four and the five are both major.
So your four would be a [C] C. _ _ _
_ Your five is also major, and it [D] would be a D. _
_ _ _ Your six is always minor, so it would be an E minor in the [Em] key of G. _ _ _
_ Now your seventh is a tricky one, because it is known as the leading tone.
It's known as the part of the scale or the chord that is always wanting to lead back to the one.
So oftentimes it can be a diminished chord, not to get all crazy,
but a diminished chord, you flat the third and you flat the fifth in it.
So sometimes they can sound, it just sounds a little bit dissonant.
It makes you want to resolve back to the one.
So in [F#] the key of G, our seven chord is an F sharp.
So you could hear a lot of times in a song that your seventh is a diminished chord.
So an F sharp diminished sounds like this.
_ _ So that holds a lot of tension.
It makes you want to resolve back to the one.
So you hear this, and you're like, [E] ah, I want [G] to hear _ the one.
You want to feel that, ah, that sense of relief.
Now the other thing that can also create tension is your five chord.
Often your five chord also makes you want to hear that one.
Now the five chord in the key of G is a D.
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So _ _ _ when you hear a D in a lot of progressions,
it makes you want to hear the one chord again.
For instance, [N] let's say we're playing 12 bar [G] blues.
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_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ Anytime you hear that [D] five, _ [G] you kind of want to resolve back to the one.
_ _ _ So as you study these things more, you'll get to know what each number means,
which number means correlating back to the key of the song.
But know if you study the Nashville number system well,
you will be able to pick up a chord chart,
or you will even be able to listen to a song and just learn things easier,
because it really helps you understand how chords relate themselves to one another.
I'm Lindsay Yell.
Thank you so much for watching my lesson about the Nashville number system.
If you have any questions, leave them below.
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[A#m] See you next time, guys.
All right, you guys.
I hope you enjoyed that video.
Big shout-out and thank you to Lindsay Yell.
Once again, you can check her out in the link in the [E] description.
If you guys have any comments or anything [B] else you'd like to see [A] from me,
or from Lindsay for that matter, let me [E] know in the comments below.
Hope to [C#m] see you guys again real soon.
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