How To Use The Nashville Number System

Check out our free 30 minute Songwriter Minute video:

How To Use The Nashville Number System!

This video is an excerpt from a Songwriter Minute Workshop presented by Larry Beaird. He created this comprehensive music guide to help songwriters, artists and musicians better understand the Nashville Number System. This video features very detailed (but easy to understand) instructions along with real musical examples.

Larry also provides one-on-one mentoring sessions via Zoom to help songwriters hone their writing skills. During a mentoring session you can discuss your songs, work on musical charts, or ask him about the music business in general. Click here to learn more about mentoring.

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Aaron Beaird.

Give The Gift Of Music This Christmas With Beaird Music Group!

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Looking for the perfect gift for the songwriter or artist in your life? Give them a premier Nashville recording from Beaird Music Group!

Order now through December 18th to have an email announcing your gift sent directly to you or that special musical person.

Gifts can be purchased in increments of $50 or for the full purchase price of one our recording packages. Here's a list of the prices: 

www.beairdmusicgroup.com/prices/

Please email Aaron at bmgaaron@gmail.com to order your gift or get additional information.

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season!

Beaird Music Group, Inc.

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Aaron Beaird.

How To Use The Nashville Number System - Online Workshop

I’m excited to present a new ‘Songwriter Minute’ workshop called “How to Use the Nashville Number System”! I’ll be live via Zoom this Saturday, May 9th at 2pm central time.

The cost is $35. Please email Aaron at aaron@beairdmusicgroup.com to sign up! Registration ends at 4pm central time on Friday, May 8th.

Hope to see you there!

-Larry Beaird

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Aaron Beaird.

Free 1 Hour Online Songwriting Workshop with Larry Beaird

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I’m excited to present a FREE 1 hour Songwriter Minute workshop ONLINE via ‘Zoom’ video conferencing this Wednesday, April 1st at 7:00pm central time! Sign up for our email newsletter via the link at the bottom of this post to participate.

In the fall of 2018 I presented this workshop in Sacramento, San Diego, Phoenix, St. Louis, Savannah, Malibu, Charlotte, and Albany NY. If you attended one of those workshops, this might be a good refresher course - and it’s FREE!

If you’ve never attended one of my workshops, here’s a description:

I’ve researched hit songs for many years to see what makes them work. I like to share the results of this research with songwriters in order to suggest ways to make their songs more commercial.

I began a few years ago by writing musical charts for every #1 song of 2014 and 2015. Since then I’ve also looked at various Top 5 and Top 10 hits as well as the CMA and ACM Songs-of-the-Year of the last 5 years. Although I mainly focus on Country, I also look at title use in several other genres including Rock, Pop, Latin, etc.

For this workshop, I will focus on a group of Top 10 songs from Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. 

Topics include:

  1. How hit songs best use verses, choruses and bridges

  2. The use of intros, turnarounds, solos, and outros 

  3. Chords used (and chords NOT used) in the hits

  4. Vocal ranges of the artists

  5. “Tightening up” songs so that publishers and other listeners will stay interested to the end

  6. The number of writers per hit song

  7. The time it takes the hits to get to the first chorus 

  8. Minimum, maximum and average songs lengths

  9. Time signatures, grooves, and tempos

  10. The difference between a swing and straight-eight groove

  11. Patterns of chords used in the hits 

  12. Frequency and placement of song titles

  13. Topics of the hits

  14. Choosing the best chords for particular melodies

  15. Sticking with the central idea of the title 

  16. The importance of repetition

  17. The importance of rhyme (and use of “imperfect” rhyme)

  18. Title use in several other genres 

  19. Use of instrumental sections (solos) in current hits

  20. How Songs-of-the-Year are different

Zoom is a free online platform for video webinars, meetings and conversation. You can use Zoom on your desktop or laptop computer, tablet or smartphone. We recommend downloading the Zoom app to your computer/smartphone/tablet well before the meeting time to familiarize yourself with the program. You don’t need an account to join the video meeting.

Click here to sign up for our email newsletter to join the workshop this Wednesday, April 1st, and we will email you the workshop ‘join meeting’ link and code the day before, on Tuesday, March 31st. 

We suggest you go to the link at approximately 6:50pm central, so you’ll have time to familiarize yourself with the Zoom set-up.

PLEASE NOTE: The workshop will only accommodate a maximum of 100 people, so be sure to join early to reserve your spot!

Please spread the news to all your songwriter buddies. I hope to see you Wednesday!

All the best,

Larry Beaird

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Aaron Beaird.

Songwriting Tutorial Video - Kacey Musgraves' Award Winning Album "Golden Hour" Breakdown

Chord charts (Nashville Number System and letters) for the two hit singles “Butterflies” and “Space Cowboy”:

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Beaird Music Group, Inc. (voted one of Nashville’s best recording studios by readers of Music Row Magazine) is the premier Nashville recording studio and service. We are located in the heart of Nashville, where our recording complex houses three studios.

Whether you are an artist looking to record an entire album or a writer looking to record demos of your songs, Beaird Music Group takes care of the recording process from start to finish.

Check out a before-and-after video here: http://www.beairdmusicgroup.com/song-transformation-nashville-recording-studios

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Aaron Beaird.

Hit Song Breakdown: "God's Country" by Blake Shelton

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Check out our latest Songwriter Minute Hit Song Breakdown Video, featuring “God’s Country” by Blake Shelton, which reached #1 on the Billboard Country Charts.

Here at our recording studios in Nashville, Beaird Music Group is always researching how today’s hit songwriters structure their songs for the current commercial country market. Contact us today to bring your songs to life!

Follow us on Instagram for new videos every week!

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Aaron Beaird.

Larry Beaird Songwriter Workshop heads to Charlotte, NC

$625 Demo Recording to be given away!

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Larry Beaird is taking his songwriter workshop, Songwriter Minute, on the road!  He's headed to Charlotte, NC and at the end of his workshop he's going to have a drawing for a chance to win a free $625 demo from Beaird Music Group! 

The workshop is set for Saturday, September 22, 2018 (10am - 1:00 pm). To have a chance at having a song being one of 5 songs included in his presentation, make sure to reserve your seat by Aug 25, 2018. For details, click here. Make sure you register by September 15, 2018 for a chance to win the free demo!

Hope to see you there!

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Aaron Beaird.

Songwriter Minute Workshop 2018

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The Workshop

Larry Beaird has researched hit songs for many years to see what makes them work. He will be sharing the results of his research with songwriters in order to suggest ways to make their songs more commercial.

In addition to Larry’s recent research, he also uses his experience as a session musician in Nashville.  He’s played on thousands of recording sessions for writers and artists. Albums, singles, and videos he’s performed on have sold over 28 million copies - including 2 songs of the year - Three Wooden Crosses by Randy Travis and I’m Movin’ On by Rascal Flatts. For a more detailed look at Larry’s recording experience, click here: http://www.beairdmusicgroup.com/aboutlarrybeaird

Highlights of the workshop include:

- Larry will examine a group of Top 10 Hits and show what makes them work.
- He will also examine up to 3 songs written by writers in attendance (chosen by random drawing).
- A drawing is sometimes held for a free $625 Premier Demo from Beaird Music Group! 
- See 20+ ways  to make your songs more like the hits.

Larry’s Songwriter Minute videos take a look at some of the topics of the workshop. You can see examples of his videos here: http://www.beairdmusicgroup.com/songwriting-tips-videos-nashville-recording-studios

If you'd like info about a workshop in a particular city, please contact Aaron Beaird at (615) 279-8030.

Hope to see you there!

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Aaron Beaird.