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24 Apr 08 - 04:50 AM (#2323980) Subject: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: greg stephens This is probably in another thread, but I couldn't immediately find an answer. Does anybody know a good mnemonic for fiddle tuning...GDAE? And while you're at it, a nice one for guitars..EADGBE? There seem to be plenty of wellknown ones for the music staves, but not for these tunings. |
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24 Apr 08 - 04:51 AM (#2323984) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: peregrina 1) G'day is how I remember GDAE 2) Eddie ate dynamite good bye Eddie |
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24 Apr 08 - 05:05 AM (#2323996) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Zen As those are the standard tunings... they would seem to me to be very easy to remember in their own right, even for complete beginners. As much so as a mnemonic? Or do you find it useful in teaching? Just interested and asking... (:>) Zen |
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24 Apr 08 - 07:50 AM (#2324124) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: danensis God Damn All Englishmen EADGBE - Easy Backwards God Damn All Englishmen |
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24 Apr 08 - 07:57 AM (#2324127) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,Ian cookieless Go Dip An Egg Egg And Dripping Go Beautiful E |
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24 Apr 08 - 08:01 AM (#2324134) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: greg stephens Zen: I think mnemonics always make things easier to remember. All Cows Eat Grass and Get Big dates FRom America have always stuck easily in my mind. And I was talkinmg to a fiddle teacher about to give a beginner's lesson to a nine-year old and discussing the lack of a suitable mnemonic that either of us can recall. Sentences are instantly memorable, GDAE and EADGBE sound like gibberish the first time you hear them. |
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24 Apr 08 - 09:52 AM (#2324253) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: greg stephens danensis: are you sure about that God Damn All Englishmen? I thought it was Goddam Danes Are Everywhere. |
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24 Apr 08 - 09:57 AM (#2324259) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: open mike what;s GBDFA? It has an "E" in front of it.. Didn't the moody Blues have an album or song called: Every Good Boy Deserves Favor--note on the lines and FACE are the notes in the SPACES on the Treble Clef... Now what are the notes on the bass clef? but the best one i hear from a young friend who took guitar lessons was Ever Acid Dealer Gets Busted Eventually I have not heard one for G D A E |
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24 Apr 08 - 09:59 AM (#2324261) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Peace Well, ferret won't work. Too many letters. |
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24 Apr 08 - 10:41 AM (#2324307) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Midchuck When my children were still children, I got interested in DADGAD tuning and played in it a lot of the time. I got some gratuitous suggestions that I should try BADDAD. Peter |
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24 Apr 08 - 10:47 AM (#2324311) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Old Roger I always used this for guitar Every Amateur Does Guitaring By Ear It amused me a bit |
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24 Apr 08 - 10:49 AM (#2324316) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST 1 - 6 on guitar: ee by gum, don't ask Elvis Stu |
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24 Apr 08 - 10:50 AM (#2324317) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Peace "Every Amateur Does Guitaring By Ear" Sooner or later that will hurt the neck. May I suggest flat picks instead? |
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24 Apr 08 - 10:59 AM (#2324325) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: wysiwyg GDAE Gaw'Dammit All to 'Ell. ~S~ |
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24 Apr 08 - 12:07 PM (#2324391) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Skivee Ganglial Dendtrites Acknowledge Endometriosis? |
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24 Apr 08 - 03:21 PM (#2324597) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,Jim I have always called the fiddle tuning "EADG". Am I wrong? |
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24 Apr 08 - 03:21 PM (#2324600) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: John MacKenzie God Doesn't Actually Exist. |
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24 Apr 08 - 04:03 PM (#2324646) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: open mike that is the most memorable yet.. and Giok, it depends if you go from low note to high or the around way other.....<------ |
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24 Apr 08 - 04:08 PM (#2324654) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: John MacKenzie Every Atheist Disappoints God G ¦¬] |
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24 Apr 08 - 05:40 PM (#2324727) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: webfolk God Did Almost Everything |
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24 Apr 08 - 05:43 PM (#2324731) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,Fiddlelady Great Dentists are expensive |
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24 Apr 08 - 05:52 PM (#2324735) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: greg stephens John Giok: Goid doesnt actually exist. Excellent, that will be rmembnered for a long timer. Nice one, did you just invent that? |
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24 Apr 08 - 06:24 PM (#2324755) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: meself The one I use for kids is: Good Dogs Are Everywhere. Now isn't that much nicer than all that foul language and blasphemy? (Buncha cynical #@%&#s!) |
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24 Apr 08 - 06:36 PM (#2324764) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Escapee Every American Dog Gets Bones Easily SKP |
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24 Apr 08 - 06:48 PM (#2324775) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: skipy Eat A Damn Good Breakfast Everyday Skipy |
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24 Apr 08 - 07:17 PM (#2324794) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: open mike blasphemous?! hey, what you got against dentists, dogs and ferrets? |
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24 Apr 08 - 09:20 PM (#2324894) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Uncle Phil I learned standard guitar tuning as Every American Daughter Gets Babies Easily. Politically incorrect, easy to remmember. I remember fiddle and mando tuning as the reverse of bass tuning (or bass strings on a guitar) -- GDAE vs EADG. - Phil |
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25 Apr 08 - 04:50 AM (#2325081) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: John MacKenzie Yes Greg, all my own work. G |
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21 Sep 10 - 02:15 PM (#2990952) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,micheller0630 GO DANCING AT EDINBURGH |
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21 Sep 10 - 02:32 PM (#2990962) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,ifhudhfjdh guitar damages are expensive |
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22 Sep 10 - 03:46 AM (#2991265) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Joe Offer EADGBE - Every Awful Day Goes By Endlessly |
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22 Sep 10 - 04:33 AM (#2991284) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Mrs.Duck Great Danes Are 'Eavy |
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17 Jun 12 - 11:48 PM (#3364788) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST For guitar? How about "Emily Always Does Good Bug Eating." :P |
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18 Jun 12 - 01:52 AM (#3364805) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,GMGough Good Donkeys Adore Eggs, but what it means and where it came from I don't know. I learnt it in Somerset as a schoolboy in the 60s. |
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18 Jun 12 - 03:40 AM (#3364815) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Megan L Get drunk and eat |
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18 Jun 12 - 04:12 AM (#3364823) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Tootler My daughter used Elephants Are Dark Grey |
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18 Jun 12 - 09:00 PM (#3365238) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: ossonflags Elvis And Dylan Got Big Egos |
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19 Jun 12 - 03:28 AM (#3365335) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Big Al Whittle Grieve! Dylanophiles Alienated Ewan! |
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19 Jun 12 - 04:10 AM (#3365344) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: JohnInKansas Back a long time before political correctness existed, but when people (in public) were more polite, my grade school taught the way to remember key names for the sharped keys as: "Go Down And Eat Breakfast." And on the same "theme," the keys with flats in them were: "Fat Boys Eat Apple Dumplings." Some of the kids seemed to be able to remember other phrases for either the sharps or flats, but not both directions at the same time. "Attaching" both to the same idea of "eating" got most of them to the point of remembering them both (at least 'till the afternoon bell rang and they went home and washed their brains). Of course the order is reversed when you increase the number of flats, from the order as you add sharps, but with the "neutral" key of C in between, flipping either one lets you remember the entire circle of fifths (which was an advanced subject not discussed until fifth grade, IIRC). Some of the other phrases are rather cute, but this pair should be generally acceptable for teaching to young children, even in "formal" contexts - although political correctness by now may have made it - or soon will make it - impolite to refer to "fat boys" in any context. Maybe you could substitue "fluffy" for "fat," like several of my acquaintances do(?). John |
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20 Jun 12 - 02:32 AM (#3365750) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Big Al Whittle Gerard Depardieu's Amazing Erection....or would awesome be easier to remember? Either way, its quite visual. |
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15 Jan 18 - 12:09 AM (#3899699) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,Sambo Gosh! Dinosaurs Are Extinct!? |
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15 Jan 18 - 02:36 AM (#3899702) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Dave Hanson If anyone can't remember 4 notes they should give up playing. Dave H |
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15 Jan 18 - 03:44 AM (#3899708) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: BobL From my piano teacher in the 1950s: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (notes on stave lines in treble clef) Great Big Dogs Fight Anything (ditto, bass clef) |
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15 Jan 18 - 04:06 AM (#3899711) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Big Al Whittle Great Dane's Arse Explosion |
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15 Jan 18 - 07:52 AM (#3899742) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel Of course, for ukes it's "My Dog Has Fleas" which has nothing to do the the names of the notes... |
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15 Jan 18 - 09:04 AM (#3899762) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Nigel Parsons Key signatures (1 to 7 sharps) Go Down And Enter By Force, Crash! (1-7 flats) Fly B.E.A. Don't Go Cambrian (for those who remember the old British airlines) |
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15 Jan 18 - 12:14 PM (#3899796) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Stanron A mnemonic for GDAE is not needed if you know a smidgen of music theory. The strings are a fifth apart. A fifth is an interval of five notes, inclusive. GABCD, five notes, is a fifth. DEFGA, five notes, is a fifth. ABCDE, five notes, is a fifth. All the strings are a fifth apart. All you need to remember is the lowest string, G. |
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15 Jan 18 - 04:21 PM (#3899842) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: BrooklynJay When I was quite young (maybe 7?) a guitar teacher in a local day camp taught us: Every American Doll Goes Berserk Eventually. Over the years, I've heard Doll replaced with Dog, but I still can't get the original mnemonic out of my head. GDAE? All I have to do is think of the state of American politics and God Damned A**holes Everywhere is the only thing that comes to mind... Jay |
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15 Jan 18 - 06:56 PM (#3899872) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,ripov I dunno what I keep pressing! Anyway - the names (and the pitch) are totally irrelevant - the strings are tuned a perfect fifth apart if you use "the new Italian tuning", or sometimes an equal tempered fifth if you use a crap tuner. Otherwise the standard is fifth - fourth - fifth, for example G,D,G,D (called A,E,A,E, but that's not really kind to the fiddle). The most important thing is that all instruments are set to the same pitch - so much as it may grieve you, you tune to the melodeon, because it can't conveniently be tuned . If there's two of them god help you! |
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15 Jan 18 - 11:54 PM (#3899895) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: meself "The strings are a fifth apart. A fifth is an interval of five notes, inclusive. GABCD, five notes, is a fifth. DEFGA, five notes, is a fifth. ABCDE, five notes, is a fifth. All the strings are a fifth apart. All you need to remember is the lowest string, G." Yeah, that's what I told a six-year-old the other day at his first lesson. In fact, three times I told him - and he still didn't get it. I finally told his mother not to bring him again. |
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17 Jan 18 - 08:50 PM (#3900248) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Joe_F FACE Every Good Boy Does Fine AkEG GoodBye Dear Father Alas |
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18 Mar 20 - 12:50 AM (#4040401) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,Tom God Damn All Enemies |
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18 Mar 20 - 01:28 AM (#4040402) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Stanron I just remember the letters. It's easier. |
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18 Mar 20 - 02:38 AM (#4040405) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Joe Offer Goddamnawfuleverything...., |
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18 Mar 20 - 03:24 AM (#4040409) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Mr Red Of course, for ukes it's "My Dog Has Fleas" very appropriate considering the literal translation of Ukulele is jumping flea |
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18 Mar 20 - 03:39 AM (#4040412) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: Gordon Jackson When the OP, all those years ago, first posed the question, did he need a mnemonic when he typed in GDAE, or did he - in an amazing feat of memory - actually manage to remember those four letters all by himself? If he did indeed need a mnemonic, what was it? Are you still around, Greg? |
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18 Mar 20 - 05:28 AM (#4040431) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,Ray Some things you always remember; i.e. GDAE, EADGBE. Oh! ..... and the the mnemonic for the resistor colour code, taught to us at the very end of a physics lesson, more than 50 years ago and which I’ve never had to use - “Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls Bashful Virgins Getting Worried”. |
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18 Mar 20 - 06:41 AM (#4040437) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,Jerry Of course in the days before digital tuners you didn’t necessarily need to memorise the sequence of a notes in a tuning, because you tuned the instrument relatively string to string. You would use a pitch pipe, piano key or harmonica key note to tune one of the strings then tune the neighbouring strings relative to that one, largely at the fifth for guitar, seventh fret for mandolin and tenor banjo, but for fiddle without frets you needed pitch pipes for each string. Some might think that all sounds like hard work, but it meant you learnt where the main notes were on your fretboard, certainly the first half dozen frets on each string, which I get the impression many are not aware of these days. |
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04 Jan 22 - 07:47 AM (#4130935) Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE? From: GUEST,cienne Paul Open strings on the Violin GDAE G been the lowest pitch open string E been the highest pitch open string. Mnemonic for the open strings are G- Good D- Dogs A- Are E- Everywhere GOOD DOGS ARE EVERYWHERE |