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Thread #144294   Message #3335732
Posted By: Will Fly
09-Apr-12 - 11:01 AM
Thread Name: Darrell Scott's song notation - is?
Subject: RE: Darrell Scott's song notation - is?
Ah - a clue there - thanks Wesley. It looks like what's called the Nashville system, which uses numbers to indicate the chord in any scale - 1=C, 2=D. etc., in the key of C. The two numbers underlined together seem to indicate that they are in the same bar.

The system, using Roman numerals instead of Arabic, has long been a convention in jazz progressions = I, IV, V, etc. - just never seen it done this way before.