Product Description
THE NASHVILLE NUMBER SYSTEM
In the late 50's, Neil Matthews devised a musical number system for the Jordanaires to use in the studio. Charlie McCoy and fellow studio musicians began adapting Matthews' number system into chord charts. The Nashville Number System has evolved into a complete method of writing chord charts and melodies---combining Nashville shorthand with formal notation standards.  
The Nashville Number System is 130 pages with a step by step method of how to write a Nashville number chart for any song. Included with each NNS book in Edition 7 is the cd, "String Of Pearls". This is a 10 song cd of  instrumentals, including, Amazing Grace. I walk you through the details of each song and explain the Number System tools used to write the charts. Now, while listening to the cd, you can see and hear how Nashville number charts work.
THE NASHVILLE NUMBER SYSTEM includes a collection of handwritten number charts for the songs on the cd, String Of Pearls. Each song is charted by hand from the cd by:
  • Charlie McCoy (Hee-Haw)  • David Briggs (Session Keyboardist/Arranger)• Eddie Bayers (Session drummer)  • Jimmy Capps (Studio guitarist, Grand Ole Opry Staff Band) • Brent Rowan (Studio guitarist/Producer)• Lura Foster (Charts for TV shows: Nashville Now, Music City Tonight, Primetime Country)• John Hobbs (Session Keyboardist)• Mike Chapman (Session Bassist)• Biff Watson (Session Guitarist)• Chris Farren (Producer/Guitarist)• Tony Harrell (Session Keyboardist/Studio Owner)
Each of these musicians wrote 5 number charts in his or her style from the String Of Pearls cd.
For example, the song, String Of Pearls, has charts written by: Charlie McCoy, Brent Rowan, John Hobbs, Jimmy Capps and Biff Watson.
The song, Waylon, has charts written by Tony Harrell, Lura Foster, Chris Farren, Biff Watson and Eddie Bayers.
The idea is that you’ll be able to compare, side by side, some of the different styles of notation and symbols you can use to chart the same piece of music. So, as you listen to a song on the cd, you can flip between different charts written of the same song.
These different charts represent the kinds of numbering techniques that you are liable to run into in almost all of the major recording and television studios, clubs, showcases, rehearsal halls, and other situations where music is performed in Nashville. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (10)

The Nashville Number System
The Nashville Number System by Chas Williams is easy to read and understand. It gave me the understanding I needed to be able to
write charts for musicians in the band or studio. Chas provides examples and CD that helps you get through the book in less
than a week. If you are a professional musician and intend to work with Nashville Musicians or studio musicians this book is a
must have. You will not regret buying this book I promise !

Great Service!
I purchased this book for a student of mine who is going to college in Nashville this September and is planning to major in music. He has already read the entire book and actually understands it. The order arrived much more quickly than I expected was shrink-wrapped and in excellent condition. I highly recommend this vendor and will happily do business with them again. Thank you very much for such excellent service.

A must-read for songwriters and anyone who wants to play music with others
Chas Williams' detailed explanation of music theory for not-formally-educated is a must-read. This book single-handedly gave me the foundational information I needed to perform and record with professional musicians.
So instead of saying, "I'm playing G-C-D, then E-minor and then C, but I'm capo'd to three so..." You just say, it's in B-Flat and it's 1-4-5 then 6minor and then back to 4. Any musician who understands the numbers will get you, and like you more. They might even suggest changing the 4 to a 4 with 6th and 9th added in.
Buy it, read it slowly, then read it again.

of Great Benefit to bands / musicians.
I wouldn't say much of this book is original, but nevertheless very very useful.Having played with multiple bands over the past 15 years, it would be so helpful for musicians to learn this method to make playing together in different keys / transposing / writing etc be so much easier in a band format.

Nashville rosetta stone
If you need to deal with Nashville you've got to speak the lingo. This is an invaluable introduction to the arcane practices of Nashville's session musicians, many of whom cannot read traditional music notation and play all their amazing material by ear and feel.

For any songwriter who wants commercial success this is a useful tool. ... Read more

Product Description

Product Description
Discovering the way people in ancient cultures conducted their lives is fascinating for young people, and learning how these people counted and calculated is a part of understanding these cultures. This book offers a concise, but thorough, introduction to ancient number systems. Students won't just learn to count like the ancient Greeks; they'll learn about the number systems of the Mayans, Babylonians, Egyptians, Romans, and Hindu-Arabic cultures, and also about quinary and binary systems. Symbols and rules regarding the use of the symbols in each number system are introduced and demonstrated with examples. Activity pages provide problems for the students to apply their understanding of each system. Can You Count in Greek? is a great resource for math, as well as a supplement for social studies units on ancient civilizations.

This valuable resource builds understanding of place value, number theory, and reasoning. It includes everything you need to easily incorporate these units in math or social studies classes. Whether you use all of the units or a selected few, your students will gain a better understanding and appreciation of our number system.

Grades 5–8 ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Great Tool for Teaching number concepts
This book presents a series of worksheets that progressively from the most primitive number systems to more modern number systems such as binary. Each set of worksheets allows students to learn and interact with the different number systems and ultimately compare them, thus giving students a deeper understanding and appreciation of our own number system. They can also serve as a bridge between math and social studies.

Easy to Understand History of Number Systems
This was used as a reference for a project my son was doing. It had easy to understand explanations and worksheets that helped us along. Another plus for a math book is that it is filled with many visuals that enhance the written text. ... Read more

Product Description
This book is suitable for ages 9 to 12 years. You can discover the relationship between maths and people's needs, and how these needs have continually pushed people the word over to come up with very similar solutions to keep track of things, measuring time, and distance, and calculating numbers. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Easy to understand history of numbers for kids!
Great explanation for kids of the history of numbers.Includes little projects for kids to do to see the actual way civilizations kept track of items.

The Secret Life of Math
Wonderful book...Has lots of great ideas for teaching the history of math in the classroom. Great connections to the past. ... Read more

Product Description
The Nashville Number System Dial A Chord consists of two circles - 8 inches across (UV Plastic Coated 14 pt. card stock in full color) with a grommet in the middle so that the circles spin around ... The top circle has windows that show you how to make every guitar chord at the first position in all 12 keys - including the 7th.s ... They line up to show which chords go together in each key And are "Color-CODED" with the Nashville # System designations as well ... Also on the front is a "Color-CODED Quick Check Reference Grid" of the Nashville Number System which goes up to "The 9" ... It also shows you how many sharps or flats are in each key signatureThe names of the diatonic scale degrees (tonic, dominant, mediant, etc.)The Solfa names of the scale positions (the do, re, me's,) ... On the back ... a full explanation of the "Nashville # System" along with How to make the minor chords and The preferred "Natural Qualities" of the chords (major or minor)No music reading is necessary to use "The Nashville Number System Dial A Chord" - Home - Studio - Office - Library - Classroom - Garage - Welcome to the ultimate resource to learn or review the aspects of the Nashville Number System and to learn every chord in Western Music in every key ... no matter your skill level or musical style ... what "Dr.Ducks Nashville Number System Dial A Chord" covers all at your fingertips can impact the rest of your musical life ... Enjoy ... ... Read more

Product Description
32 pages ... Read more

Product Description
The subject of this book is the successive construction and development of the basic number systems of mathematics: positive integers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, and complex numbers. This second edition expands upon the list of suggestions for further reading in Appendix III. From the Preface: ``The present book basically takes for granted the non-constructive set-theoretical foundation of mathematics, which is tacitly if not explicitly accepted by most working mathematicians but which I have since come to reject. Still, whatever one's foundational views, students must be trained in this approach in order to understand modern mathematics. Moreover, most of the material of the present book can be modified so as to be acceptable under alternative constructive and semi-constructive viewpoints, as has been demonstrated in more advanced texts and research articles.'' ... Read more

Product Description

Product Description
Besides giving readers the techniques for solving polynomial equations and congruences, An Introduction to Mathematical Thinking provides preparation for understanding more advanced topics in Linear and Modern Algebra, as well as Calculus. This book introduces proofs and mathematical thinking while teaching basic algebraic skills involving number systems, including the integers and complex numbers. Ample questions at the end of each chapter provide opportunities for learning and practice; the Exercises are routine applications of the material in the chapter, while the Problems require more ingenuity, ranging from easy to nearly impossible.Topics covered in this comprehensive introduction range from logic and proofs, integers and diophantine equations, congruences, induction and binomial theorem, rational and real numbers, and functions and bijections to cryptography, complex numbers, and polynomial equations.With its comprehensive appendices, this book is an excellent desk reference for mathematicians and those involved in computer science. ... Read more

Product Description
Number Power is the first choice for those who want to develop and improve their math skills. Every Number Power book targets a particular set of math skills with straightforward explanations, easy-to-follow, step-by-step instruction, real-life examples, and extensive reinforcement exercises. Use these texts across the full scope of the basic math curriculum, from whole numbers to pre-algebra and geometry. Number Power 6: Word Problems is designed to provide students with practice and instruction on applying math to real-world mathematical problems. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Contemporary's Number Power: Word Problems
I teach GED classes and this book has been very helpful to those who struggle with word problems. ... Read more

Product Description
Emphasis on mathematical thinking and teaching strategies on factors and multiples of 100, 1000, and 10000. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Building A System of Tens
A book to support the trainig component of how to teach children to explain their math reasoning. It honors all styles of learners & thinkers as long as they can explain the thinking & reasoning to support the answer they got. This is one of many in a series. I recommend the entire training component that goes with the book for your staff.

Service was great!
I received my book quickly and it was in excellent condition. I will place another order soon

SFT
The book arrived within a week after ordering it. It was in very good condition. I would def. order from them again! ... Read more

Product Description

The central theme of this book is the solution of Diophantine equations, i.e., equations or systems of polynomial equations which must be solved in integers, rational numbers or more generally in algebraic numbers. This theme, in particular, is the central motivation for the modern theory of arithmetic algebraic geometry. In this text, this is considered through three of its most basic aspects. The book contains more than 350 exercises and the text is largely self-contained. Much more sophisticated techniques have been brought to bear on the subject of Diophantine equations, and for this reason, the author has included five appendices on these techniques.

Product Description
Fundamentals of Mathematics represents a new kind of mathematical publication. While excellent technical treatises have been written about specialized fields, they provide little help for the nonspecialist; and other books, some of them semipopular in nature, give an overview of mathematics while omitting some necessary details. Fundamentals of Mathematics strikes a unique balance, presenting an irreproachable treatment of specialized fields and at the same time providing a very clear view of their interrelations, a feature of great value to students, instructors, and those who use mathematics in applied and scientific endeavors. Moreover, as noted in a review of the German edition in Mathematical Reviews, the work is “designed to acquaint [the student] with modern viewpoints and developments. The articles are well illustrated and supplied with references to the literature, both current and ‘classical.’”The outstanding pedagogical quality of this work was made possible only by the unique method by which it was written. There are, in general, two authors for each chapter: one a university researcher, the other a teacher of long experience in the German educational system. (In a few cases, more than two authors have collaborated.) And the whole book has been coordinated in repeated conferences, involving altogether about 150 authors and coordinators.Volume I opens with a section on mathematical foundations. It covers such topics as axiomatization, the concept of an algorithm, proofs, the theory of sets, the theory of relations, Boolean algebra, and antinomies. The closing section, on the real number system and algebra, takes up natural numbers, groups, linear algebra, polynomials, rings and ideals, the theory of numbers, algebraic extensions of a fields, complex numbers and quaternions, lattices, the theory of structure, and Zorn’s lemma.Volume II begins with eight chapters on the foundations of geometry, followed by eight others on its analytic treatment. The latter include discussions of affine and Euclidean geometry, algebraic geometry, the Erlanger Program and higher geometry, group theory approaches, differential geometry, convex figures, and aspects of topology.Volume III, on analysis, covers convergence, functions, integral and measure, fundamental concepts of probability theory, alternating differential forms, complex numbers and variables, points at infinity, ordinary and partial differential equations, difference equations and definite integrals, functional analysis, real functions, and analytic number theory. An important concluding chapter examines “The Changing Structure of Modern Mathematics.” ... Read more

Product Description
It is impossible to imagine modern mathematics without complex numbers. "Complex Numbers from A to ...Z" introduces the reader to this fascinating subject which, from the time of L. Euler, has become one of the most utilized ideas in mathematics.

The exposition concentrates on key concepts and then elementary results concerning these numbers. The reader learns how complex numbers can be used to solve algebraic equations and to understand the geometric interpretation of complex numbers and the operations involving them.

The theoretical parts of the book are augmented with rich exercises and problems at various levels of difficulty. A special feature of the book is the last chapter, a selection of real outstanding Olympiad and other important mathematical contest problems solved by employing the methods already presented.

The book reflects the unique experience of the authors. It distills a vast mathematical literature, most of which is unknown to the western public, and captures the essence of an abundant problem culture. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Amazing book on complex numbers
This is a complete work about complex numbers. Perfect for Mathematical Olympiads. A lot of difficult problems.

lots of unusual and challenging problems on complex numbers
Comprehensive and yet concise enough to cover lots of material. Lots of wonderful questions to challenge any math problem lovers.
Highly recommended.

A very useful book on complex numbers
Mathematics is amazing not only in its power and beauty, but also in the way that it has applications in so many areas. The aim of this book is to stimulate young people to become interested in mathematics, to enthuse, inspire, and challenge them, their parents and their teachers with the wonder, excitement, power, and relevance of mathematics.
This book is a very well written introduction to the fascinating theory of complex numbers and it
contains a fine collection of excellent exercises ranging in difficulty from the fairly easy, if calculational, to the more challenging.As stated
by the authors, the targeted audience is not standard and it "includes high school students and their teachers,
undergraduates, mathematics contestants such as those training for Olympiads or the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, their coaches, and any person interested in essential mathematics."
The book is mainly devoted to complex numbers and to their wide applications in various fields, such as geometry, trigonometry or algebraic operations. An important feature of this marvelous book is that
it presents a wide range ofproblems of all degrees of difficulties, but also
that it includes easy proofs and natural generalizations of many theorems in elementary geometry.
The authors show how to approach the solution of such problems, emphasizing the use of methods rather than the mere use of formulas. Of course, the more sophisticated the problems become, the more specific this approach has to be chosen.

The book is self-contained; no background in complex numbers is assumed and complete
solutions to routine problems and to olympiad-caliber problems are presented in the last chapter of the book.
The aim of the core part of each chapter is to develop key mathematical ideas and to place them in the context of novel, interesting, and unexpected applications to real-world problems.
The first chapter deals with complex numbers in algebraic form and leads up to the geometric interpretations of the modulus and of the algebraic operations. The second chapter deals with various applications to trigonometry,
starting with elementary facts on the polar representation of complex numbers
and going up to more sophisticated properties related to $n$th roots of unity and their applications in solving
binomial equations. Chapter 3 is devoted to the applications of complex numbers in solving problems in Plane and Analytic Geometry. This chapter includes a lot of interesting properties related to collinearity, orthogonality, concyclicity, similar triangles, as well as very useful analytic formulas for the geometry of a triangle and of a circle in the complex plane. Chapter 4 contains much more powerful results such as: the nine-point circle of Euler, some important distances in a triangle, barycentric coordinates, orthopolar triangles, Lagrange's theorem, geometric transformations in the complex plane. This chapter also includes a marvelous theorem known in the mathematical
folklore under the name of "Morley's Miracle" and which simply states that "the three points of intersection
of the adjacent trisectors of any triangle form an equilateral triangle". As stated in the book, this theorem
was mistakenly attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte. The proof of this theorem follows directly from Theorem 3 on page 155, a deep result which was obtained by the celebrated French mathematician Alain Connes (Fields Medal in
1982 and Clay Research Award in 2000),
in connection with his revolutionary results in Noncommutative Geometry.Chapter 5illustrates the force of the
method of complex numbers in solving several Olympiad-caliber problems where this technique works very efficiently.

This very successful book is the fruit of the prodigious activity of two well-known creators of mathematics problems in various mathematical journals. The big experience of the authors in preparing students for various mathematical competitions allowed them to present a big collection of beautiful problems. This book continues the tradition making national and international mathematical competition problems available to a wider audience and is bound to appeal to anyone interested in mathematical problem solving.
I very strongly recommend this book to all students curious about elementary mathematics, especially those who are bored at school and ready for a challenge. Teachers would find this book to be a welcome resource, as will contest organizers.
This book is meant both to be read and to be used.
All in all, an excellent book for its intended audience!
... Read more