![]() Over the years this knowledge has helped me become a better musician in the recording studio and on stage. I will admit it took a few months for the light to come on but it eventually did. He began to explain chord progressions and numbers to this young player and how that knowledge would make me a better musician. We would sit backstage before and after the show and during our breaks. It was there that an old seasoned musician recognized that I didn’t understand music theory and taught me one of the most valuable pieces of information a musician can receive-The Nashville Number System. That was a wonderful time in my life and little did I know that the knowledge I learned from those early shows of my career and the musicians who played them would benefit me the rest of my life. The music and fun would continue throughout the night. ![]() At these parking lot square dances they would fill local supermarket parking lots with huge crowds, using a hay wagon for a stage and filling the parking lot with square bales of straw for makeshift seats. ![]() I also was a regular for the local square dancing Club, “Hardin County Fair Squares” and still managed to find time to play in a band of my own. Other regular performances I appeared where I could sharpen my skills as a young musician was at all the music jamborees throughout the state. It was a wonderful show each and every Saturday night with sell-out crowds almost every week. Not the famous Grand Ole Opry farther south of Elizabethtown but the famous “Small Town Opry” in Rineyville, Kentucky. During the 70’s I played the Opry several weeks each month. I’m now on stage almost every Saturday night playing my banjo, fiddle and, when asked, my guitar. Ok.it’s around 1976 and for the first time I am taking my hobby of music and sharing it with whoever will listen. The Nashville Number System, What The Heck?
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