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Author: allencole
Date: 2008-03-02 23:27
I was very interested to read some of the mnemonic devices that were expressed in the 'Circle of Fifths' thread, and would like to use this thread to collect mnemonics not only on the circle, but on notes of the staff and anything else.
I know of two reversible pnemonics for the Circle of 4ths/5ths & order of sharps/flats.
1. Sharps: Fat Cats Get Drunk After Eating Beans
Flats: Beans, Eaten After Drinking, Get Cats Fat
2. Sharps: Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle
Flats: Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father
A student shared one for lines of the treble clef:
Elvis's Guitar Breaks Down Frequently
Please post your favorites for one-stop shopping in this convenient thread! Some of those posted in the 'Circle of Fifths' thread are now favorites of mine, by the way.
Allen Cole
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-03-02 23:36
Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips
Every Girl Buys Designer Fashions
Elephant Goes Boating - Drowns Fast !!
...GBK
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Author: ssax
Date: 2008-03-02 23:59
A quick google search reveals a number of such sites that feature mnemonic devices. For example, see:
http://www.netnaut.com/mnemonics/music.html
Cheers.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2008-03-03 01:28
I've mentioned this one before and will mention it again:
(Courtesy of Ani DiFranco on "King of the Hill")
"Every Girl Band Deserves Funding!"
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Author: Brenda ★2017
Date: 2008-03-03 11:55
One of my previous jobs left me with considerable time on my hands, so to pass the time I became creative.... These are posted in my studio with the suggestion that my students add to the list...
1. Famous Cartoonists Generate Debates About Every Body
2. Fabulous Clarinetists Groove Daily After Eating Breakfast
3. Frequently Children Gallivant Delightedly Aggravating Every Body
and the one my students prefer,
4. Four Children Go Downstairs And Eat Brownies
Now since I'm planning eventually to live and teach in Central America I'll have to come up with some way to remember the European names of the notes: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do. Hmmm...
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2008-03-03 12:12
For flats..... not reversible thus far I'm afraid, but my memorable one is
"Beans Eaten After Dark Generally Creates Flatulence"
Maybe someone could come up with a reasonable reversal that would be acceptable to the more "sanitised" among us ?
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Author: Bassie
Date: 2008-03-03 12:19
>2. Sharps: Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle
>Flats: Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father
Wow, that one stirs a distant memory! Father Charlie, I'm sure we said. Long time ago. Probably a fellow name of Gelder, whom we (of course) called 'Redleg'...
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At primary school we were taught
Elephants Get Big Dirty Feet.
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Author: robertgh
Date: 2008-03-03 14:34
From the ancient mists of elementary school . . . "Every Good Boy Does Fine" and its companion "FACE" took care of the treble staff.
Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn used a variant (which always sounds vaguely Dickensian to me) as the title for their stage collaboration "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour"
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Good_Boy_Deserves_Favour)
Bob H.
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Author: mrn
Date: 2008-03-03 15:30
I posted this on the circle of fifths thread, but since we're forming a collection here, I thought I'd repost it here for completeness (and since it's really easy).
The progression of flats forms the two "words" BEAD and GCF (greatest common factor). The progression of sharps, of course, is simply the same thing spelled backwards (FCGDAEB).
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Author: allencole
Date: 2008-03-03 16:29
Very nice so far. And thanks GBK for the spelling correction!
I'm also interested in finding related mnemonics for notes of the treble and bass clefs, in the same vein of "Every Good Boy Does Fine" and its cousin "Good Boys Do Fine Always."
Will definitely check out that website...
Allen Cole
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2008-03-03 18:07
And TKS to all for "defining" this funny word for me. I made a patent search for [mnemonic clarinet] and found one pat, on USPTO only, not on Google Patents !! US 6,870,085 which has a "laundry list" of cited references, and one to Johann Bach ! and considerable discussion of some of the prior art. I'm sure this could be "broadened out" by using music and other insts. If help is asked for, I'll do more than just read this thread. FUN? , Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: mrn
Date: 2008-03-03 18:56
Don--
A mnemonic is nothing more than a memory aid--it's not a musical term, per se.
The patent you found is kind of interesting, though. I'm a patent lawyer, so I've seen lots of patents. However, I've never seen one in which Herr Bach was cited as prior art.
Of course, Bach did come up with a lot of good inventions . . . some two-part ones and some three-part ones, so you never know . . . . ;-)
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2008-03-03 19:26
Hi mrn, its great to meet a pat atty on our BBoard. I'm just a "pat engr", a helper/searcher/tech-?expert?. 20 yrs with Phillips Pet Co Pat Div, after 20 yrs of chem eng. I really did have some knowledge of this word, more along the [clarinet] line of EGBDF and FACE than elsewhere. Searching USPTO with "mn piano" retrieved 28 pats, but only 13 on Google ! Makes one wonder about G's depth of indexing?? ?Not full text? , but back to "Genesis" , I think. If you have a Classif. Manual, look in 84 for a possible subclass, my info is quite oldt. Regards, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: mrn
Date: 2008-03-03 20:30
Ohhh...Now I understand what you're doing, Don. There's probably some good stuff in 84/470R (music teaching aids), like this doozy from US 6,841,724, "Fat Aging Cows Eat."
I've never actually tried using Google Patents before--I just use the PTO site and the www.pat2pdf.org site to get PDFs. There are a few glitches in PTO's website, though, too, it seems. If you go through the online classification manual (go to http://www.uspto.gov/go/classification/, then click "Class Numbers & Titles" near the top of the screen), when you get down to class 84, they put the "R" in 470R in some places, but not in others. You have to put the "R" in 470R to get any search results.
Great to meet a fellow patent guy and clarinetist! (I'm in private practice in the Dallas area, and my background is EE/Comp. Sci. I do a lot of software- and electronics-related work.).
All the best,
Mike
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Author: Aussiegirl
Date: 2008-03-04 01:34
For the modes-
I Dont Particularly Like My (A$$/Armpit/whatever other body part beginning with A) Licked
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Author: Tara
Date: 2008-03-04 03:00
For modes I was taught:
In Dallas People Like Music After Lunch.
My 7th graders remember it!
Tara
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Author: davyd
Date: 2008-03-04 17:52
The lines of the Alto clef: Freakin' Alto Clef! Extremely Gnarly!
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Author: Dominic
Date: 2008-03-04 19:27
Someone I knew in my previous job didn't believe teaching mnemonic (ie. E-G-B-D-F and FACE) to kids as he claims it doesn't teach them the notes from the stave...
I'm glad people still uses them and comes up with lots of new mnemonics.
Dominic
Cardiff, UK
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