There are plenty of other music sites out there. I have used many of them to pull together these charts. What makes these charts any different? 2 things: 1. Chord progressions are presented with the timing structure of each song. 2. Chords are presented in the Nashville Numbering System. The goal of this chart design was, with a quick glance at a chart, and regardless of what key someone is playing it in, a musician can follow along playing chords, singing, and taking breaks to tunes they may have never heard before, or only vaguely know.

Most music sites show lyrics with chords above the words, but give no clear indication as to for how many beats do you play each chord. That means you need to know by ear, otherwise it can be very tough to play the song, even though the worlds and chords are right there! Some music sites do give song structures for some tunes, and some cool sites let you pick a key to play the tune in and all the chords magically change, and there are many tab and sheet music sites out there. Those sites are great for many purposes, but I wanted charts for a room full of people trying to immediately learn the chords to a new song. In that situation song structure is more important than the details of a guitar solo or melody. And if you learn to play chord progressions based on the Nashville Numbering System, you can play them in any key.

My charts are designed for both someone trying to learn a new song as well as for group jams where people are often playing along to tunes that they have never heard before.

As a guitar player, I like to use a capo. So for a tune in the key of A, I will set the capo to the second fret and play chords in the key of G, because the open G position on the guitar is one of the easiest positions to play traditional songs. That means many of my charts have chords in the key of G, even though the tune is generally played in some other key, such as A or B. This works fine for guitar and banjo players who have capos, but that can leave the mandolin, fiddle and bass players scratching their head when they see a G chord on the chart when they know they need to play an A chord. Do not despair, capo-free pickers! My charts also present chord progressions in the Nashville Numbering System. Learning chord progressions by numbers can take some getting used to, but once you get it, it is an easy way to learn countless traditional, bluegrass and blues tunes.