The Nashville Number System

This is a cool book, however if you are looking to get in to using the nashville number system I recommend starting with the book called "Song Charting Made Easy" by Jim Riley. To me that was a better introduction and foundation to the system, and then use this book as the second step, as it has some different info and info from the other book presented in new ways.This book also includes a bunch of handwritten charts, which are much more helpful and interesting to understand and analyze after learning the core of the system from the Jim Riley book.

Looks like this book is the de-facto standard. I had seen it mentioned in multiple places including a youtube instruction video on the system. It's not a large book but the information is what I was looking for. There are a number of places to get the the basics, but this book goes well past that.I'd consider myself to be an intermediate player and the included songs are challenging to me. So far I've been working on two songs and I can play them pretty well but usually still make a few mental mistakes changing chords. The songs have a number of chord transitions within some measures and working on those has been interesting. Like any instruction book, don't expect to learn the material without doing some work.

I bought this book because I wanted to find out what the Nashville number system was all about and how it differed from the numbers that jazz musicians commonly refer to--usually in Roman numerals. Not much difference, really. I once saw a jazz pianist coach his bassist through a live performance of an old jazz standard that the young bassist didn't know by simply flashing fingers at each chord change--and there were more than just three chords in that tune. When a jazz musician says "IV chord," he's saying exactly what a Nashville player says when he says "4 chord." It's just that they got there by different routes.I found this book fascinating, particularly as to the lengths to which Nashville-using musicians have each gone to flesh out the Nashville number system. It's a bit funny, though, because it ends up being almost as complicated as learning standard music notation, if you go the whole way. They just use different symbols for the same things--like a diamond for whole note, for example. I'm not at all sure that it really wouldn't be just as easy to become good at reading standard music notation as reading Nashville. But this book is a fascinating and fun read, particularly the various and varied actual handwritten pages of Nashville notation made by experienced musicians.

This is a very accurate explanation of The Nashville Number System. It comes in handy to help prepare for studio recording the Nashville way. It is well written and easy to understand.

Good coverage of the topic

Well written and comes with a CD to understand the material.

great job of simplifying the number system.

I enjoyed the entire book. There is a lot of great information that will help me learn to play guitar. I recommend it to anyone that wants to learn more music theory.

Great book , full of useful history

Explains the system very clearly, covers the possible gotchas, and provides a lot of study material. I'll be using it for years.