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Chord Names and Nashville Numbers
Chord names for Nashville Numbers observe certain conventions. For example, Nashville Numbers are considered named for major chords unless you specify otherwise.
So, for example, if you say, “Play the two chord,” the Nashville session player will play the two major chord unless you say, “Play the two minor chord.”
If you say, “Play the seven chord,” the session player will play the seven major chord unless you say “Play the seven diminished chord,” or “Play the seven minor sixth chord,” or “When can we take a break and grab a beer?”
In the remaining discussion of harmony, the Nashville Number System applies. However, only Roman numerals are used for chords from now on, not Arabic numbers (as in the conventional Nashville Number System). For example, the Nashville Number of the “seventh” of the chord built on scale degree 5 is notated from here on as V7. In Nashwille, they use Arabic numbers and a superscript, so conventionally notate it as 57. In either case, the name of the chord is still the "five-seven" or "five-seventh" chord.