Hello all! I just wanted to give a special thanks to Matthew Daniel who so graciously stopped by and added some thoughts and things I was missing and/or mistaken about with the Nashville Number System. In my haste to do a comparison post I didn’t research as much as I should and wanted to give [...]
Nashville Number System vs. Roman Numerals (cotinued)
Wednesday we looked briefly at the Nashville Number system. Today I’d like to talk about the Roman numeral system equivalent and touch briefly on the benefits and disadvantages of each. The NNS system basically works like this:
Comparison
C - D - E - F- G - A - B - C
1 - 2- 3 - 4 [...]
Music Theory Tip of the Week #2 - The Nashville Number System
Continuing on from yesterday - let’s take a look at a different take on music theory notation, the Nashville Number System. As I’m writing this, I’ve decided to make this a mini-series for the rest of the week - as there’s a lot to cover.
Previously we have only looked at the classic Roman Numeral system [...]
Music Theory Tip of the Week #1 - Help Bass Players Get off the Root
This week I’d love to spend some time diving into some more practical music theory tips that you can use in your worship ministry (or in any modern musical venue for that matter). Very often I will run into bass players that know where the root notes of chords are but have no idea what [...]
The Pitfalls of Teaching to Piano Players to Play By Chord
For a long time I’ve subscribed to the school of thought that playing by chord off of lead sheets or chord sheets is a much better way to go for piano players than playing straight from the actual piano music. You only have to have a couple of pages to turn through, you learn how [...]