Making music is great fun, but sometimes the theory and reading the music is difficult. That’s why there are mnemonics for the music! To play a musical instrument you must of course be able to read notes, but that staff is quite difficult to put together. And also the theory of music often has difficult rules and these have to be learned. Then mnemonics help!
A Monkey That Likes To Eat Bananas
With this phrase you will never forget the sequence of the strings of the guitar. From thick to thin: E (en) A (ap) D (ie) G (raag) B (ananes) E (et).
Big Farmers Eat Groats Every Day
These are the major scales with flats. One flat: scale F (van Flinke). Two moles: Bes. Three flats: Es. Four flats: As. Five moles: Des. Six flats: Ges.
Give That Poor A Plate of FIS
These are the major scales with sharps. One cross: scale G (from Geef). Two sharps: D. Three sharps: A. Four sharps: E. Five sharps: B. Six sharps: F sharp.
Moles are underground. Crosses are on the church
If a note is preceded by a flat (b), the note is lowered by a semitone, because flats live underground (low). A sharp (#) raises the pitch by a semitone, because the church has a cross (high).
A Big Farmer Drinks Fanta
The E, G, B, D and F are in the G clef on the lines from bottom to top (line notes).
FACE
The F, A, C and E are in the G clef between the lines from bottom to top (intermediate notes).
Singing intervals:
| Interval | Song by which you recognize it |
|---|---|
| Prime | Jingle Bells |
| Second | Father Jacob |
| Third | There is a child |
| Quarter | Wilhelmus or Zie ginds comes the steamer |
| Quint | Kortjakket is always ill |
| Sext | Bear bone |
| Septime | Not a song, but the septime wants to dissolve to the root note |
| Octave | Somewhere over the rainbow |
Behind This Great Cello
This phrase is a mnemonic for the sequence of the cello’s strings, namely the A, D, G, and the C.
The difference between a whole rest depends and a half rest lies
There is always confusion with the rest. There is a block near the center line on the staff, but when is it below it and when is it above it. A whole rest has been hanged (so dead) and rests for a long time, because he is dead. Half the rest is on a hard mattress, so rest briefly.
The difference between a full rest and a half rest
This is the story: Such peace is a bit like a hat. Such a hat from the past that is now sometimes worn by the bride gum at weddings. Now, wearing such a hat, a sympathetic man walks down the shopping street. Does he meet a beautiful lady there. He greets her by lifting his hat (half rest), but a little later he sees an even more beautiful lady there. He wants to make an impression on this and takes a graceful gesture off his hat completely, upside down, and then back on his head. (hat upside down -> rest)
Submitted by: Karin van Toor
Foei, Ciska, You Dance Like A Bear
This is the order of the crosses, namely: first the Fis, then the Cis, Gis, Dis, Ais, Eis, Bis.
If Dora Plays Like Me All ?? s Lost
The first letters are also the first letters of the diatonic scales. First stage: Ionic (from if). Second stage: Doric (from Dora). Third stage: Phrygian. Fourth stage: Lydisch. Fifth stage: Mixolydian. Sixth stage: Aeolian. Seventh stage: Locrian.
ALWAYS SOP your TENs in a BASin
This is the order of the pitches: soprano, alto, tenor, bass.
