{"id":774,"date":"2009-10-06T15:12:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T22:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/numbers-rule-the-world-of-music-heres-how-to-really-use-them-in-chord-patterns-to-learn-all-12-keys"},"modified":"2024-12-25T18:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T02:01:58","slug":"numbers-rule-the-world-of-music-heres-how-to-really-use-them-in-chord-patterns-to-learn-all-12-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/numbers-rule-the-world-of-music-heres-how-to-really-use-them-in-chord-patterns-to-learn-all-12-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers rule the world of music. Here&#8217;s how to really use them in chord patterns to learn all 12 keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &gt;NOTE: To learn ALL the techniques and strategies that you&#8217;ll need to start playing songs on your own &#8211; in all 12 keys &#8211; and sounding like you&#8217;ve been playing for years, go here:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/products\">https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/products<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> After last week&#8217;s e-mail, I received a host of replies. Here&#8217;s one that I think will really help you (VERY IMPORTANT STRATEGIES).<\/p>\n<p><strong> ***Comment From Kelly W.*** <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi Jermaine,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for sending such an informative e-mail. I feel like you give so much through your website, blog, and e-mails (maybe too much). Do you ever sleep?<\/p>\n<p>Well, here&#8217;s another e-mail to add to your insomnia. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You mentioned the number system and how it is key when it comes to playing music by ear. I totally get that now. But towards the end, you started talking about numbers and patterns but you quickly ended. Kinda left me hanging as I was hanging on your every word up until that point and didn&#8217;t want the e-mail to end.<\/p>\n<p>Do you mind expounding on how the number system works with patterns?<\/p>\n<p>A passionate fan, Kelly W. <\/p>\n<p> &gt;&gt;&gt; My Comments (and explanations): <\/p>\n<p>Kelly, first off, thanks so much for your kind words. Yes, I DO sleep (but not nearly as much as I should). My wife says I should be getting in as much sleep as possible RIGHT NOW before our 2nd daughter is born in December. But I&#8217;m hard-headed. So enjoy these personal replies while they last :-)!<\/p>\n<p> To recap, YES, the number system is absolutely pivitol in playing music by ear without sheet music. There&#8217;s just so much you can do with it. (And it&#8217;s so easy to grasp &#8212; you just take every major scale you know and NUMBER each of them from 1 to 7&#8230; BAMMM! There&#8217;s the number system).<\/p>\n<p> But let&#8217;s talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chord patterns<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> for a second&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> In playing by ear, you&#8217;ll notice that a lot of songs use the same chord patterns over and over again. One popular chord pattern is the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1-4-5 chord progression<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script>. (Let me stop &#8212; for my beginners, &#8220;chord patterns,&#8221; &#8220;chord progressions,&#8221; &#8220;chord changes,&#8221; &#8220;chord ___whatever___&#8221; pretty much all mean the same thing).<\/p>\n<p> When I say &#8220;1-4-5&#8221; in this sense, I&#8217;m literally talking about a chord built off the first tone of the scale &#8220;moving&#8221; (or progressing) to a chord off the fourth tone of the scale&#8230; and finally to a chord off the fifth tone of the scale. There are countless possibilities.<\/p>\n<p> In the key of C (ahhhh, amazing how the number system stands on its own two feet&#8230; but now let&#8217;s move into a specific key)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> In the key of C, a 1-4-5 chord pattern would be some kind of chord on C moving to some kind of chord on F, and finally ending on some type of chord on G. Those notes &#8211; C, F, &amp; G &#8211; are the 1st, 4th, and 5th degrees of the scale, respectively. In other words, the &#8220;root&#8221; or &#8220;bass&#8221; of the chord will determine the number that gets attached to it.<\/p>\n<p>C major. Root (or bass) is C. And C is the first tone of the scale. Therefore, C major is on &#8220;the 1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Now the reason NUMBERS are important is that I can express tons of patterns like this without being in any particular key. That is why I made the statement above about &#8220;coming&#8221; into a specific key. See, numbers are like a universal language. I can sit here and chat with a fellow musician all day long and if he or she knows about numbers, our conversation could actually make sense just saying stuff like &#8220;1-4-5&#8221; or &#8220;6-2-5-1&#8221; or &#8220;2-5-1&#8221; or &#8220;b5-7-3&#8221; (b5 = &#8220;flatted 5&#8221; and you get it by literally taking the 5th tone of the scale and flatting it a half step).<\/p>\n<p> So that&#8217;s why I mentioned how important numbers are when it comes to chord patterns.<\/p>\n<p> Here&#8217;s my advice to any musician who wants to get the most out of NUMBERS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> First, master your scales as numbers and be able to call out any number fast. Like if I asked you, &#8220;what is the 2nd tone of F,&#8221; you should answer within seconds, &#8220;G.&#8221; If I say &#8220;the 7th tone of B,&#8221; you should answer &#8220;A#&#8221; within seconds. I&#8217;ve created a free 28-pg report about this very strategy and you can download at: https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/numbers (Enjoy!)<\/p>\n<p> Second, once you&#8217;ve mastered numbers and they are second nature to you, start &#8220;THINKING&#8221; about them as you play songs. For example, if someone taught you these chords in the key of C:<\/p>\n<p>C major &gt; F major &gt; G7 &gt; G\/F &gt; E minor &gt; A7 &gt; D minor &gt; G7 &gt; C major<\/p>\n<p>(Believe it or not, this is a very common string of chords). Oh yeah, since I hate for people to be lost, the &#8220;G7&#8221; is the quick way to write &#8220;G dominant 7.&#8221; The &#8220;G\/F&#8221; is what we call a slash chord. It means play a G major chord over F bass. Whenever you see a letter without &#8220;major&#8221; or &#8220;minor&#8221; or something like that, assume &#8220;major.&#8221; And if you see a slash, the note on the right of the slash is to be played on your left hand as the bass.<\/p>\n<p>I get carried away, excuse me! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So back to this chord pattern. Once you&#8217;ve mastered numbers, you need to be thinking &#8220;NUMBERS.&#8221; See, if you&#8217;re just playing this progression and thinking these are random chords, you&#8217;re cheating yourself. But if you think of this string of chords as numbers progressing from one to the other, then you&#8217;ll be opened up to a whole new world. Let me explain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Because there are 12 distinct keys that you can possibly be playing a song in, most people don&#8217;t know they are playing the SAME exact thing in other keys. I mean, how can you? Everything feels different. The notes are different, the letters are different, the titles are different. The chords feel different to your hands. etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Numbers standardize everything. There can only be a single number per chord. So it doesn&#8217;t matter what key you&#8217;re in, if you&#8217;re thinking in terms of numbers, you have just brought that key into a neutral world.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<p>F major: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>F major &gt; Bb major &gt; C7 &gt; C\/Bb &gt; A minor &gt; D7 &gt; G minor &gt; C7 &gt; F major <\/p>\n<p>Did you realize right off the bat that this was the same exact pattern I displayed above in C? Most WOULDN&#8217;T because the notes are different. It throws most people off so they continue playing these two separate <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chord progressions<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> in different keys NOT KNOWING they are playing the same thing!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s analyze:<\/p>\n<p>C major &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>C major &gt; F major &gt; G7 &gt; G\/F &gt; E minor &gt; A7 &gt; D minor &gt; G7 &gt; C major<\/p>\n<p>1 &gt; 4 &gt; 5 &gt; 4 &gt; 3 &gt; 6 &gt; 2 &gt; 5 &gt; 1<\/p>\n<p>(I just took the keynotes of each chord and figured out their &#8220;numbers.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>For example, in the C major chord, C is the keynote (the title). It is the first tone of C major (duhh!). F major is the next chord. It&#8217;s the 4th tone of C major. G7 is the next chord. It&#8217;s the 5th tone of C major. (You just keep doing this until you&#8217;ve analyzed each chord). At the end, you have this chord pattern in numbers:<\/p>\n<p>1 &gt; 4 &gt; 5 &gt; 4 &gt; 3 &gt; 6 &gt; 2 &gt; 5 &gt; 1<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you do the same thing to the &#8220;F major&#8221; chord progression I posted above, you&#8217;ll get these numbers: <\/p>\n<p>F major: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>F major &gt; Bb major &gt; C7 &gt; C\/Bb &gt; A minor &gt; D7 &gt; G minor &gt; C7 &gt; F major<\/p>\n<p>1 &gt; 4 &gt; 5 &gt; 4 &gt; 3 &gt; 6 &gt; 2 &gt; 5 &gt; 1<\/p>\n<p>Lightbulb yet?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the SAME pattern but you probably didn&#8217;t know that if you don&#8217;t already think in terms of numbers. Most musicians would have treated these progressions as two separate &#8220;things&#8221; because they look different.<\/p>\n<p>But at the core, when you strip all the letters away, they are the same. Hmmm, &#8220;MESSAGE!&#8221; Everyone comes in different shapes, colors, and sizes. But when you strip all that away, we are all the same! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The third thing to do is to just get fast at being able to figure this out WHILE you&#8217;re playing. That&#8217;s all. After you do it so much, you&#8217;ll just &#8216;think&#8217; that way. It&#8217;s a paradigm shift from the standard way of playing. You&#8217;ll be there soon.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;re full circle. Back to numbers and their importance.<\/p>\n<p>You may be thinking, &#8220;Jermaine! How do I &#8216;think&#8217; in terms of numbers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s not something you overdo. It&#8217;s just something you&#8217;re &#8220;aware&#8221; of. As you&#8217;re playing, you force yourself to think: &#8220;Ok, I&#8217;m on the ____ tone of the scale.&#8221; That&#8217;s it! It&#8217;s simple! Over time, it will become second nature.<\/p>\n<p>Then, you&#8217;ll see just how EVERYTHING YOU PLAY (or 80% of it) boils down to the same exact patterns. You can&#8217;t see it now because you&#8217;re thinking in terms of letters. &#8220;Letters&#8221; are sort of the enemy of playing in all <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12 keys<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script>. Just two hard to memorize all the letters. But if you get good at memorizing the universal numbers for all the patterns and chords you play, you won&#8217;t go wrong.<\/p>\n<p> To learn other unique techniques and strategies you can use to master the number system and take your playing to the next level, go to the link below. I recommend either my 300-pg course or my Starter 702 audio course (or BOTH). The Starter 702 course is cheap&#8230; a steal&#8230; $17 bucks and covers much of what I&#8217;ve talked about here&#8230; but with my VOICE and piano explaining everything. If you&#8217;re serious, check it out:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/products\">https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/products<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;s in the CORE ESSENTIALS section).<\/p>\n<p> Talk soon,<\/p>\n<p> Jermaine <\/p>\n<p>P.S. &#8211; This old video I did several months ago will really help you with numbers as well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s e-mail, I received a host of replies. Here&#8217;s one that I think will really help you (VERY IMPORTANT STRATEGIES).<\/p>\n<p><strong> ***Comment From Kelly W.*** <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Hi Jermaine,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for sending such an informative e-mail. I feel like you give so much through your website, blog, and e-mails (maybe too much). 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