brynray wrote:
unclejoesband wrote:OK. Laugh all you want but when I bought a mandolin I came up with a phrase that helped me remember the strings.
G- Good
D- Dogs
A- Are
E-EverywhereWith 7 of them in the house, that made it easy to make the association.
when I first started playin the mando, I remembered the tunning from my fiddle playin days,The guy that taught me how to play fiddle said just think of an aussie that don`t no how to spell so good...aussies are always sayin g-dae mate! obiously both my instructor and I are both hillbilly as can be but I never forgot it!
the world is but a stage and we mere actors upon it~billy shakesphere