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>>>>>> "Douglas" == Douglas Ingalls <dwi@borg.com> writes:
>
>    >> Learning the music theory all over through a numerical system
>    >> has tremendously helped me. There's actually quite a lot to
>    >> describe this method of remembering music and so, unless
>    >> requested, I shall not elaborate on it. But here's some tips as
>    >> to the way I am instructed as well as being played by my team
>    >> in Tabernacle of Joy. We "don't know any keys"!!! We only know
>    >> numbers!!! That is, if we're playing a particular song in C,
>    >> we'll take C as 1.
>
>    Douglas> I really like this system too. I'm currently training a
>    Douglas> new bass player whom I have taught this system. It's so
>    Douglas> much easier to lean over an say '1,4,5,1,6,2,5' than it
>    Douglas> would be to say the actual chords, which will vary
>    Douglas> depending on the key.
>
>This is actually a system of intervals, and works particularly well on
>instruments like guitars where bar chords and capos make transposition
>trivial.  On woodwinds and keyboards, it conveys the chord, but
>fingering a "2" chord in F is rather different from fingering a "2"
>chord in G, etc.
>
>I think in terms of relative intervals (your "numerical" system) when
>I play, but I also use numbers to understand the chords themselves: in
>the key of Eb play a "3" chord as a double diminished minor seventh,
>followed by a "5" chord as 9-suspended-4th, then resolve it to a "4"
>chord as a major seventh.  This translates to Gm--7, Bb9s4, Abmaj7.
>
>This numerical system is actually traditional Pentecostal music.  How
>many of you are old enough (or have a church with old hymnals) to
>remember what "shaped note music" is?  The most recent hymnal from
>publishing house I know of was the "white" hymnal from the mid 70s.
>


	Very interestingly, I was also taught to script a new song
	right from a CD or tape through the numerical system. Not
	only do we use numbers for chords progression, we use it
	to represent chord inversions as well. My instructor is
	currently compiling a book of this issue. May take him quite a long
	while but I think it will be helpful to many.

	Gee. I'm glad to know that this system is actually traditional
	Pentecostal music. That's great!

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