Re: Nashville Number System, again

[Aaron Hill]

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