Mel Bay's Guide to Capo, Transposing, & the Nashville Numbering System

by Bruce, Dix

• ISBN13: 9780786649792
• ISBN10: 0786649798
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-08
• Publisher: Mel Bay Pubns

Summary

This Mel Bay QWIKGUIDE begins with basic music theory about scales and keys and teaches how to transpose several songs with and without the capo. Then we look at chords in keys and explore some typical chord progressions by swapping numbers ("one, four, five") for the chord names ("D, G, A"). Finally we study the "Nashville Numbering System" in depth by examining different notation styles and converting several well-known songs to number charts. The more advanced number charts show detailed arrangements with modulations, intros, extros, a variety of chords, repeats, fermatas, strum patterns, beat accents, and much more. If you're interested in why the capo works as it does; if you're a songwriter or gigging musician who needs to know how to read, write, and understand "Nashville Number charts," this book is for you!

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(1)
The Chromatic Scale	3	(1)
Keyboard Charts #1	4	(1)
Fingerboard Chart #1	5	(1)
Fingerboard Chart #2	6	(2)
Chromatic Scale / A Chromatic Scale	8	(1)
The Major Scale	9	(1)
Piano Keyboard / C Major Scale	9	(1)
G Major Scale / C Major Scale	10	(1)
Piano Keyboard / G Major Scale	11	(1)
Major Scale Chart	12	(1)
Key Signatures	13	(2)
The Capo	15	(3)
Capo Chart	18	(4)
Will the Circle Be Unbroken	22	(2)
Quiz so Far	24	(1)
More Transposing	25	(4)
All About Keys	29	(4)
More About Key Signatures	33	(3)
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down	36	(3)
Scale and Chord Chart	39	(2)
Fair and Tender Ladies	41	(2)
Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho	43	(2)
The Nashville Numbering System	45	(1)
Number Chart #1: La Bamba	46	(1)
Number Box #2: Fair & Tender Ladies	47	(1)
Number Charts #3: 50s Rock and #4: Amazing Grace	48	(1)
Number Chart #5: Amazing Grace	49	(2)
Number Chart #6: House of the Rising Sun and #7	51	(1)
Number Chart #8	52	(1)
Number Chart #9 and #10	53	(1)
Number Chart #11	54	(1)
Number Chart #12	55	(1)
Coda	56