08 August 2008 ~ 7 Comments

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- [...]

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06 August 2008 ~ 8 Comments

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 [...]

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05 August 2008 ~ 4 Comments

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 [...]

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15 July 2008 ~ 17 Comments

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 [...]

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15 January 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Practical Music Theory Tips #7 – More Seventh Chords

Ha, how fitting that this post happens to be the 7th tip. Okay, I was typing this post and realized that this is one of those posts that is probably impossible to explain with just words. As I don’t want to thouroughly confuse everyone, the best way to learn about seventh chords online is to [...]

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