On Dec 5, 4:06 pm, wrote:
On Dec 5, 4:02 pm, wrote:

On Dec 5, 3:52 pm, wrote:

Cause to the best of my knowledge, I made it up and have only told a
few folks.

Anyway, a couple of years back I decided it was time to learn a lot
more about music, specifically reading music. Anyway, during that
initial time I found that if I "eat dog bones" it would help me learn
to play. Can anyone tell me how that would work?

Me. out playin' with the sharks...

EAt DoG BoneEs the open strings on a 6 string guitar.

We have a winner. I don't know how it happened but I was looking at
the tuning and came up with it. Specifically, remove any letter from
the statement that is not part of the scale, you are left with
eadgbe . I told my son in law who is a guitar teacher, he uses it with
his new students to help them remember...

Pretty nifty, I just remembered by remembering EADGBE, and it did take
awhile!