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Treble staff lines with a goose sentence
A sentence helps you remember the lines of the treble clef staff.
- Time
- ⏱ 1 min
- Difficulty
- ◆ easy
How to do it
- Take the first letters: Every (E), Good (G), Boy (B), Deserves (D), Fudge (F).
- Apply them from bottom to top to the five lines.
- Remember the spaces between the lines with “FACE”.
Variations
- An older version: “Every Good Boy Does Fine”
- The German sentence “Eine Gans hat dicke Füße” (“A goose has fat feet”), where H is the German name for B
Sources
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- karrierebibel.de (opens in a new tab)
Eine Gans hat dicke Füße“ (Notenlinien im Violinschlüssel E, G, H, D, F); https://barrypopik.com/blog/every_good_boy_deserves_fudge — „Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge“ (EGBDF music mnemonic); https://music-theory-practice.com/reference/clef-mnemonics — „Lines E G B D F E very G ood B oy D eserves F udge“ (Treble Clef)
