Sorry, that version didn't have Chas on it!

Here's the one with guitar
https://soundcloud.com/david-elaine-alt/goat-on-the-tracks


Elaine Alt
415 . 341 .4954                                           "*Confusion is
highly underrated*"
ela...@flaminghakama.com
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On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 6:22 PM Flaming Hakama by Elaine <
ela...@flaminghakama.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 5:46 PM Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2021-06-04 5:28 pm, Flaming Hakama by Elaine wrote:
>> > However, there is one other Nashville rule that would need to be
>> > accommodated, which is that for minor, the numbers still follow the
>> > relative major.
>> >
>> > So, for a song in A minor that goes A- D- A- E7 A- it is not 1- 4- 1-
>> > 57 1-
>> > as you might expect, but is rather 6- 2- 6- 37 6-
>>
>> I thought the numerals were always relative to the key.  So a "1" is
>> always an "A" even if it is "A major" or "A minor".  Where "A major" and
>> "A minor" differ is in the assumed chord types:
>>
>> (from Wikipedia)
>>
>> Nashville numerical notation     1      2           3          4      5
>>      6      7
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Chord type (major key)           major  minor       minor      major
>> major  minor  diminished
>> Chord type (minor key)           minor  diminished  major      minor
>> minor  major  major
>> Chord type (harmonic minor key)  minor  diminished  augmented  minor
>> major  major  diminished
>>
>> So if you wanted "Am Dm Am E7" then that becomes "1 4 1 5M7" in "A
>> minor" and "1 4 1 57" in "A harmonic minor".
>>
>>
>> -- Aaron Hill
>>
>
>
> It seems that there is variation among practitioners.
>
> Attached is the first pages of the lilypond and Nashville chart in minor
> that uses the numbers of the relative major.
>
> While my knowledge of this system is limited to this little firsthand
> knowledge, I can't say whether this is more or less common than using 1 for
> the tonic.
>
> What I can say, is that the guitarist on this session was none other
> than Chas Williams, author of THE NASHVILLE NUMBER SYSTEM 10th Edition
> https://nashvillenumbersystem.com/
>
> He was not the author of these charts, but he certainly read them without
> hesitation.
>
> https://soundcloud.com/david-elaine-alt/bluegrass-train
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Elaine Alt
> 415 . 341 .4954                                           "*Confusion is
> highly underrated*"
> ela...@flaminghakama.com
> Producer ~ Composer ~ Instrumentalist ~ Educator
>
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