Mnemonic for GDAE?

Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE?
From: Peace
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 09:59 AM

Well, ferret won't work. Too many letters.

Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE?
From: open mike
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 09:57 AM

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

Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE?
From: greg stephens
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 09:52 AM

danensis: are you sure about that God Damn All Englishmen? I thought it was Goddam Danes Are Everywhere.

Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE?
From: greg stephens
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 08:01 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE?
From: GUEST,Ian cookieless
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 07:57 AM

Go Dip An Egg
Egg And Dripping Go Beautiful E

Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE?
From: danensis
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 07:50 AM

God Damn All Englishmen
EADGBE - Easy Backwards God Damn All Englishmen

Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE?
From: Zen
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 05:05 AM

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

Subject: RE: Mnemonic for GDAE?
From: peregrina
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 04:51 AM

1) G'day is how I remember GDAE
2) Eddie ate dynamite good bye Eddie

Subject: Mnemonic for GDAE?
From: greg stephens
Date: 24 Apr 08 - 04:50 AM

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.