Manual Nashville Number System
Nashville Number System
If you are new to the Nashville Number System you can find detailed information at wikipedia or have a look some of the videos at YouTube.
See these examples:
- Van Dieman´s Land (U2) (All diatonic chords)
- Country Roads (John Denver) All but one (bVII) diatonic
- In My Life (The Beatles) (Almost diatonic (I7, IV-, bVII))
- Streets Of London (Ralph McTell) (Almost diatonic (II7))
- Hallelujah (Leonhard Cohen)
- Your Song (Elton John) (slash chords)
- Basic Jazz Blues (Common Progression)
How to
Within Chord Sheet Maker Online you do not actually write the numbers, but can transform the resulting chart to show numbers instead of regular letters.
There are three steps required to make a Nashville Number Chart ...
- write a regular song chart using letters
- set song sheets key (advanced edit form)
- set transpose in PDF preview to NNS
See some more nns examples.
User Setting
In the settings you can choose your preferred display, i.e. whether you prefer Arabic or Roman numerals. And how minor chords should be represented.
