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Double Bass "Berklee System"?
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I am a current Berklee student and I'm not 100% sure I completely understand what you are asking but here Ask the Berklee Bass Department | TalkBass.com would be a good place to ask this question since from my understanding most of the bass department faculty checks it and responds.
I am not really familiar with the Nashville system but the only major difference I could think of is that in Harmony here they only use upper case roman numerals to identify chords and use suffixes for the quality instead of using lowercase to signify its minor.
So for example the diatonic triads of a major scale would be shown as I, II-, III-, IV, V, VI-, VII(dim) instead of I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, vii(dim)
Also there is a whole system they teach for analyzing tunes and progressions which isn't really that complex or anything but it would be hard to explain.
I am not really familiar with the Nashville system but the only major difference I could think of is that in Harmony here they only use upper case roman numerals to identify chords and use suffixes for the quality instead of using lowercase to signify its minor.
So for example the diatonic triads of a major scale would be shown as I, II-, III-, IV, V, VI-, VII(dim) instead of I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, vii(dim)
Also there is a whole system they teach for analyzing tunes and progressions which isn't really that complex or anything but it would be hard to explain.
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Yeah haha the other Berklee but I'm sure plenty of what you described happens here as well haha.
The two seem basically the same to me.
I think the Berklee system refers to the kinda-standard Roman numerals, lower case for minors, and functional chord notation like V7/ii (five-seven of two-minor).
Nashville number system uses Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3, ...) and "m" for minor. It's not functional, meaning everything relates directly to the key center.
I think the Berklee system refers to the kinda-standard Roman numerals, lower case for minors, and functional chord notation like V7/ii (five-seven of two-minor).
Nashville number system uses Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3, ...) and "m" for minor. It's not functional, meaning everything relates directly to the key center.
