• 🎸 Interactive Nashville Number Chart

    Choose a key to see the Nashville Number System for the major scale. Click any number to explore its chord, scale degree, and notes.

    C Major Nashville Number System

    Selected Number

    I
    C Major — Scale Degree 1

    🎼 Scale Notes

    The notes of the selected key are:

    🎵 Common Nashville Number Progressions

    Click a progression to see it in the selected key.

    1 - 4 - 5
    1 - 5 - 6 - 4
    1 - 4 - 6 - 5
    6 - 4 - 1 - 5
    1 - 6 - 4 - 5
    2 - 5 - 1
    💡 Nashville Number Tip: The Nashville Number System represents chords by their scale-degree numbers instead of their letter names. This makes it much easier to transpose a song to another key. For example, a progression of 1 - 5 - 6 - 4 in C major is C - G - Am - F, while the same progression in G major becomes G - D - Em - C.

  • An Interactive Nashville Number Chart helps musicians, songwriters, singers, worship musicians, producers, and DJs understand the Nashville Number System and quickly transpose chord progressions into different keys.

    Instead of writing chords by their letter names, the Nashville Number System represents chords using their position within a key. For example, in C major, the progression 1 - 5 - 6 - 4 represents C - G - Am - F. Move the song to G major and the same numbers become G - D - Em - C.

    This makes Nashville numbers particularly useful for transposing songs, communicating chord progressions with other musicians, learning songs by ear, and creating flexible chord charts. The numbers describe the musical relationship between chords rather than locking the progression to one particular key.

    The chart also shows the scale notes, chord qualities, Roman numerals, and common Nashville number progressions. Changing the key automatically updates the chord names while keeping the underlying progression the same.

    Tip: Learn common progressions as numbers rather than memorizing them only as chord names. Once you recognize patterns such as 1 - 4 - 5, 1 - 5 - 6 - 4, and 2 - 5 - 1, you'll be able to recognize and transpose thousands of songs much more quickly.