What are Nashville Charts?
As far as I can tell (and fair warning, I may be wrong about this), Nashville “chord charts” aren’t actually chords or charts per se as much as they are a way of being able to play a song in any key. If their intention was to not have to read music they made it a lot harder on themselves. In a nutshell, whatever key a song is, is #1. Then the other numbers are the chords according to the scale in that major key. So, for instance, if you are all agreed that you want to play in D major, then you’ll have this: 1 = D 2 = E 3 = F# 4 = G 5 = A 6 = B 7 = C# Now what I can’t tell you is whether or not they distinguish between major and minor. Technically, if you are in D, as I’m sure you know, things should look like this: 1 = D 2 = Em 3 = F#m 4 = G 5 = A 6 = Bm 7 = C#dim Maybe they write “2m” or something, I don’t know. If they assume it’s a major scale and use the normal minors, then what do you do when you grab a chord outside of the scale. How would a Bb fit into the key of D, for instance
