Sheet music notation

[Randy07]

Hi everyone,

does anyone know what "N.C" stands for when it's shown above the staff on sheet music?

Best Regards,
-Randy

[Desert_Runner]

No chords.

[Randy07]

hmm ok, and i'm guessing that if there is a chord in brackets beside it then it's referring to what chord it sounds like?

[Jeries]

I've never seen N.C. and then next to it a chord- perhaps that chord refers to another beat or measure .

Typically if they want to analyze it and put a chord to play there they wouldnt put NC

[Big Bad Bill]

The chord is brackets after N.C. tells you what the melody suggests would be the appropriate underlying chord.

[Fanch]

The chord is brackets after N.C. tells you what the melody suggests would be the appropriate underlying chord.

I could be wrong, but I belive N.C. means: A directive placed over a note (or a series of notes) in a composition signifying that the note (s) should be performed without accompaniment. This is typically found in popular music notation with either a melody with chordal accompaniment, two-staff score with chordal accompaniment, or a simple chord progression. N.C. is the abbreviated form of No Chord


Again, BBB is saying something. I'm just a bass player with google. My gut tells me we are both 'right'. He simply said it more simply.

[notavirtuoso]

I thought the composer was making a note that he needs cabbage, but I guess I was wrong. Damn public schools.