Questions re: Chord numbering ("Nashville")

I don't do strict nashville numbering...use my own lil' system that is pretty close. I would show that as bVI. Some of it depends upon the context of the song you're playing. Are these chords from a real song or just something you made up?

To your second question...there are a couple of ways you can do that. In classical type theory you can show a temporary modulation via a slash chord...so for your D7 above, you can show that as II7. You can also call it a V of V, meaning that D7 is the V chord of the V of C (G). That would appear as V7/V.

I think that this numbering system gets pretty cumbersome with modulations and non-diatonic chords, but maybe that's just me.

They're from a real song.  Second half of the verses of "It Might as Well Rain Until September" by Carole King.

I play it like this:  "(F) For all the (Fm) fun I'll have while (C) you're so far a(D7)way, it (Ab) might as well (G) rain until Sep(C)tember."

The Ab looks really out of place until you hear it in context, then it actually works.

They call it the "Nashville Numbering System" for a reason - it's meant for use with cowboys chords for songs that are written in one key and a max of 3 chords. For flatdiminshedminorseventh chords you've got to look for the Jazz numbering system which looks a lot like Chinese Arithmetic.

It's a bit bubblegummy, but my wife likes it, so I learned it for her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbKE0gJETA0

It's actually a piano song originally recorded in Db, so capo 1 as needed.

One interesting (to me) thing about this song is that it has a 1/2 step DOWN key change for the first half of the bridge, then the second half comes back up to the original key.  Maybe a lot of songs do that, but I guess this is first one that I really noticed.

The transcription?  I can't remember exactly where I got it, but I probably found on on the internet somewhere and then transposed it and otherwise changed it as needed to suit my ear.  I have a Microsoft word version of it if anyone wants it.

I remember this 1962 song very well (showing my age I know) but here are the only lyrics and chords I could find (not Nashville I'm afraid): http://rock.totaltabs.com/tablature/Car … ord_57774/

Roger

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