Behold the Nashville Scale Video Lecture - The Ultimate Guitar Course From

all right so we all know that one guy or
girl in high school they just love to
take credit for everything everything
maybe they were just in your family
right now
taking credit for it I did this I did
that me me me
did you know that there's a city in
America that also does that oh do tell
Sean I'm looking at you Nashville and
hey I don't want to be the guy to hate
on Nashville
awesome city it's a great city but I
feel like they get musical credit for
everything that's ever been invented in
rhetoric like the Nashville method the
nashville method which is like are the
national counting method which is like
here's the major scale 1 2 3 4 5 go from
a one to a 4 to a 5 that's the national
counting method simulate button mozart
was using numbers back in the day yeah
when that was just a glimmer and Davy
Crockett's I whoa that historically
accurate probably not yeah also the
Nashville Nashville's tuning yes another
thing out of whatever I beg rats Bo
today we're going to talk about the
Nashville scale the Nashville scale
which again Nashville getting credit for
um a lot of people have heard rumors
Manila explain the national scale so I'm
going to show you what this so-called
Nashville scale is first finger on the
first fret of B second finger on the
second fret of D okay and you have these
two notes so imitates like I'm a
owe me two fingers and we have one and
two good and then three and three five
two five six and seven
even take it to eight nine ten ten
twelve twelve and back to you or
thirteen fourteen that's the national
scale that's what they say that sounds
like the major scale to me it does more
importantly sounds like major chords
played in water looks like what in
Nashville the natural actually no we're
doing it right yes sir
if you welcome play the C chord a non
plane here is this this is my scene
major arpeggio or or porch or double
stop really now inversion about a minor
chord a lot of people do or don't know
about is this guy here this is a DS my
root note this is a D minor okay so what
goes here with this we have scheme of D
minor and now we move up to an E minor
and then on the play and s chord I'm
playing these two pieces left forward
and a G chord and then your a minor and
your B diminished really just the one
five and then back to your seat the
Nashville scale is nothing more than the
C major chords in order played it's
double stops nothing more nothing less
so let's because now as much riding on
it it can be a suit for a helpful tool
to kind of see if pieces of the major
scale throughout the neck right and
major towards the same time from very
effective and again we're not knocking
on it which kind of demystifying it the
whole premise is like if you're in the
key of C and you play anything on the
key of C it's going to sound good like
if Shawn holds down a C chord just a C
chord
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just hungry I mean amazing so how do we
use this well I guess if we're writing
songs right yeah sure and Shawn like
happens come over the chord progression
in the key of C well then I'm going to
use my natural scale to help write a
little bit of melody slash harmony using
these pieces so the same exact or
disease I'm so beautiful what kind of
what kind progression you want go uh
start with D minor
ah to a II mine whoa so do you minor sa
E minor yes so number wise I'll get that
would be a two then before yes magic
three like it's tough one now and again
now I play more special please see like
you can come out anytime I was following
your chords for sure yeah then I started
playing the national scale it's gonna
push you where you need to go yes sir
and creates a little bit of I'm moving a
little bit melodies so your challenge
out there is write a song in the key of
C that's original good luck and and and
I kind of like that right yeah really
brother
so write out the two four six three
anywhere else and you tell you I was
like you're not going to happen not
going to off the top of my head what do
I say that was that was tight maybe
exact delta spells they fell before you
were songwriting on dating on natural
everything credit but I'm like I just
needed to know anyways the natural scale
is awesome if you know how to apply it
so that's how you apply very quickly go
write a song add area as good as that
one right there and I'll record it send
it to us and we will judge it