Does Every Good Boy REALLY Deserve Fudge?

September 12th, 2009

Today we’re going to look at part two of the Grand Staff.

So, in my first (or second) lesson, remember that we looked at some acronyms to help us name the line notes and the space notes for both the treble clef and the bass clef.

What’s that? You don’t remember them? Well, we’re going to come up with some more so that your brain is just exploding with these notes.

So, here’s the first acronym we looked at for the line notes of the treble clef: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. These represent letters E, G, B, D, and F going upwards on the lines of the staff. Now, if you’re not a little boy who doesn’t like fudge, this may see boring to you.

Lines Notes

So, let’s try a new one, shall we?

Every Good Bear Deserves Fish

and

Every Good Bird Does Fly

If you want, you can make up some really ridiculous ones to make sure you NEVER forget.Here’s my personal favourite:

Elise Gardens Big Dumb Flamingos

Does it make sense? No. But it’s funny, and a lot more memorable. See, learning music can be fun!

So, for the space notes, we usually just use the word FACE, for the notes on the spaces going upward, F, A, C, E. Let’s make it more interesting, shall we?

Frogs And Crocodiles Everywhere

If you don’t like reptiles and amphibians, that one might not be so good.

Foreign Alien Come Earthbound

If you’re afraid of aliens, you might want to skip that one.

Fly Away Crazy Elephant

Who doesn’t love flying, crazy elephants? Okay, now we’re moving onto the bass clef.

For the line notes, we use Good Boy Deserve Fudge Always to represent G, B, D, F, A going upwards along the staff.

Boring. Let’s change it up a little

Great Big Dogs Fight Animals

Good Birds Do Fly Always

Grandma Bit Dan’s Finger Again.

I don’t know who Dan is, but it sounds funny. And now for the space notes. We normally use All Cows Eat Grass.

Space Notes

How about All Cars Eat Gas for those car lovers out there?

All Chickens Eat Grain

Any Creature Escapes Geometry

Wow, that’s a pretty weird one. So, if you like this game, go pull out a dictionary and see what acronyms you can come up with to remember the line and space notes for each clef. I hope you have hours of fun discovering new acronym and PRACTICING with them!

Elise’s Musical Tip For The Day:

Today’s mini lesson has been brought to you by: the Letter E. E is for the E major scale. The E Major Scale has four sharps. F Sharp, C Sharp, G Sharp, and D Sharp. To play this scale, play the notes E – F# – G# - A – B – C# – D# – E using the finger 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 1 – 2 – 3 for the right hand, and 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 – 3 – 2 – 1 for the left hand.

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