Comments on: Music Rhymes to help in a Music Theory lesson

By: Justin Sweeting

Justin Sweeting — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:20:47 +0000

Order of Modes:

“I Don’t Punch Like Muhummad A-Li”

By: janice

janice — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:21:30 +0000

What creativity Shelly- thanks for sharing your fun ways of learning.

By: janice

janice — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:20:31 +0000

Father Christmas Gives Dad an Electric Blanket ! Great stuff & keep them coming

By: Yo

Yo — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:22:11 +0000

What about Father Christmas gives dad a electric blanket?

By: Shelly

Shelly — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:06:05 +0000

Order of Modes:
I made up this one~
I Don’t Pinch Llamas Manes After Lunch.
Its silly but it works

Order of 4ths:

Bill Eats All Dave’s Gorgeous Chocolate Frogs

By: LAM

LAM — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:42:43 +0000

I learned all my key signatures and order of flats/sharps using sayings.
For the order of sharps: Fat Charles gets dumped at every ball.
For the order of flats: BEAD Greatest Common Factor.
For identifying key signatures with sharps: Greg destroyed all earth by fire, Charles.
For identifying key signatures with flats: Fat boys eat apple dumplings, girls cook.

Very strange sayings, but that’s how I’ve been remembering it for almost 8 years now.

By: janice

janice — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:55:33 +0000

Hi Dan,
We’ll put our thinking hats on for that one!
Kind Regards,
Janice

By: Mary-Beth

Mary-Beth — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:04:03 +0000

For many years, I have taught my students to remember:
Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Biscuits (and)
B E A D Glass Cuts

It still proves to be a successful method, and it seems to be especially popular among the younger students.

To Jessie, I believe Karen only made a mistake. Her method is correct. She wrote the following:

Fb Cb Gb Db Ab Eb Bb FCGDAEB F# C# G# D# A# E# B#

Beginning from C, Eb is 3 steps away. She simply made a minor mistake, and said it was two. Even though she miscounted, this method is still correct, as it shows Eb is 3 steps away.

By: Karin Marietta

Karin Marietta — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:06:49 +0000

Dear reader, how about: Fat Cats Go Dancing And Elephants Boogie Generally During Afternoon Episodes of Bob the builder! I’m going to test drive this one next Wednesday. This rhyme takes us around the cycle of fifths moving clockwise from 12 o’clock.(12 major/12 minor keys) I think most kids have seen Bob the builder and might like to have a bash at writing their own jingle. Could even open doors to other fun compositions! (2 sessions for the price of 1!)

Kind regards
Karin Marietta

Kind regards
Karin

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:47:44 +0000

Can any one think of a rhyme to help me remember the order of the modes?

thanks