My Dog Has Fleas

Jim Supreme Member Posts: 1,939 Location: Port Hope, Ontario, Canada Playing guitar since: circa 1960	My Dog Has Fleas Oct 5, 2016 10:40:52 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jim on Oct 5, 2016 10:40:52 GMT -5
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modernsaint Senior Member Posts: 388 AKA: Randy Hano Location: SoCal Playing guitar since: When life was simpler	My Dog Has Fleas Jan 2, 2017 14:57:30 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by modernsaint on Jan 2, 2017 14:57:30 GMT -5 Oct 5, 2016 10:40:52 GMT -5 Jim said: I guess I am in good company. I used to do this many eons ago when I was playing.
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My Dog Has Fleas Jan 3, 2017 15:11:16 GMT -5

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I never understood how this "my dog has fleas" thing was a help to anyone.

I made up my own acronym for the uke which for me was much more helpful. From the top down: Good Cowboys Eat Apples.

This helps me tune it right. The pitch thing, High, low, med, little bit higher; I just associate with the words in my acronym. My dog having fleas or any other kind of bugs does squat to help me. LOL!

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My Dog Has Fleas Jan 3, 2017 16:51:59 GMT -5

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sometimes tuning's a pitch

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My Dog Has Fleas Jan 3, 2017 17:07:19 GMT -5

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Jan 3, 2017 15:11:16 GMT -5 TonyKgull said:

I never understood how this "my dog has fleas" thing was a help to anyone.

I made up my own acronym for the uke which for me was much more helpful. From the top down: Good Cowboys Eat Apples.

This helps me tune it right. The pitch thing, High, low, med, little bit higher; I just associate with the words in my acronym. My dog having fleas or any other kind of bugs does squat to help me. LOL!

TonyKgull, I'm sure you really know, but if you strum your Uke, nice and slow, and listen in a quiet room, you can hear your Uke speak to you, it will say "My dog has fleas".

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The words to My Dog Has Fleas are not helpful for tuning a uke, but the four word tune is known to most uke players and many folks who don't play the uke. If you can't sing the song, it's of no use as a tuning mnemonic.
It's similar to using the first two notes to Somewhere Over The Rainbow to remember an octave or White Christmas to remember a minor second or Rudolph for a Major second, Greensleeves for a minor third, Kumbaya for a Major third, Amazing Grace for a perfect fourth. . .
Whenever I have to read lazy triplets, I think of the first three notes of April In Paris.

My mnemonic, taught to me by my grade five music teacher, for remembering the order of sharps is Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle. For flats, simply reverse the order "Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father".
I've heard other folks use for flats: "BE A Darned Good Country Fiddler" and for sharps: "Four City Girls Dance An Excellent Ballet" and others use for flats: "Boring Ed Always Drove Good Clean Fords" and for
sharps: "Four Crazy Guys Drank At Ed's Bar".

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-I own a fiddle, but only play it when Maggie and the cats are all out of the house.

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My Dog Has Fleas Jan 4, 2017 5:16:34 GMT -5

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Jan 3, 2017 23:10:12 GMT -5 Jim said:

The words to My Dog Has Fleas are not helpful for tuning a uke, but the four word tune is known to most uke players and many folks who don't play the uke. If you can't sing the song, it's of no use as a tuning mnemonic.
It's similar to using the first two notes to Somewhere Over The Rainbow to remember an octave or White Christmas to remember a minor second or Rudolph for a Major second, Greensleeves for a minor third, Kumbaya for a Major third, Amazing Grace for a perfect fourth. . .
Whenever I have to read lazy triplets, I think of the first three notes of April In Paris.

My mnemonic, taught to me by my grade five music teacher, for remembering the order of sharps is Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle. For flats, simply reverse the order "Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father".
I've heard other folks use for flats: "BE A Darned Good Country Fiddler" and for sharps: "Four City Girls Dance An Excellent Ballet" and others use for flats: "Boring Ed Always Drove Good Clean Fords" and for
sharps: "Four Crazy Guys Drank At Ed's Bar".

I don't know any of those. LOL.

Of course, I never took music.

The only one I know is for the major scale on guitar. When you start from the root note and go down, the easiest way to remember it is the notes sing out "Joy to the world, the Lord has come." That's the extent of my "formal" music knowledge (if that's even an example of "formal" music knowledge).

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give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I
am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your
souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
- Jesus, from Matthew 11:28-30

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My Dog Has Fleas Jan 4, 2017 8:21:05 GMT -5

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Jan 3, 2017 23:10:12 GMT -5 Jim said:

The words to My Dog Has Fleas are not helpful for tuning a uke, but the four word tune is known to most uke players and many folks who don't play the uke. If you can't sing the song, it's of no use as a tuning mnemonic.
It's similar to using the first two notes to Somewhere Over The Rainbow to remember an octave or White Christmas to remember a minor second or Rudolph for a Major second, Greensleeves for a minor third, Kumbaya for a Major third, Amazing Grace for a perfect fourth. . .
Whenever I have to read lazy triplets, I think of the first three notes of April In Paris.

My mnemonic, taught to me by my grade five music teacher, for remembering the order of sharps is Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle. For flats, simply reverse the order "Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father".
I've heard other folks use for flats: "BE A Darned Good Country Fiddler" and for sharps: "Four City Girls Dance An Excellent Ballet" and others use for flats: "Boring Ed Always Drove Good Clean Fords" and for
sharps: "Four Crazy Guys Drank At Ed's Bar".

I also have never heard a song called My Dog Has Fleas.

I have heard all the songs you pasted in BOLD. I even had the nerve to record Rainbow, White Christmas and Amazing Grace, sang Greensleeves and Kumbaya at camp.

But
I have never heard any of the 'songs' pasted in lowercase. Seriously, i never heard any on those mnemonics.
It's as if you were raised in another country

I'm joking, of course; it is I, raised in the english/irish ghetto of Quebec who was raised in another country.

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My Dog Has Fleas Jan 4, 2017 21:01:08 GMT -5

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Jan 4, 2017 8:21:05 GMT -5 RobertW said:

Jan 3, 2017 23:10:12 GMT -5 Jim said:

The words to My Dog Has Fleas are not helpful for tuning a uke, but the four word tune is known to most uke players and many folks who don't play the uke. If you can't sing the song, it's of no use as a tuning mnemonic.
It's similar to using the first two notes to Somewhere Over The Rainbow to remember an octave or White Christmas to remember a minor second or Rudolph for a Major second, Greensleeves for a minor third, Kumbaya for a Major third, Amazing Grace for a perfect fourth. . .
Whenever I have to read lazy triplets, I think of the first three notes of April In Paris.

My mnemonic, taught to me by my grade five music teacher, for remembering the order of sharps is Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle. For flats, simply reverse the order "Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father".
I've heard other folks use for flats: "BE A Darned Good Country Fiddler" and for sharps: "Four City Girls Dance An Excellent Ballet" and others use for flats: "Boring Ed Always Drove Good Clean Fords" and for
sharps: "Four Crazy Guys Drank At Ed's Bar".

I also have never heard a song called My Dog Has Fleas.

I have heard all the songs you pasted in BOLD. I even had the nerve to record Rainbow, White Christmas and Amazing Grace, sang Greensleeves and Kumbaya at camp.

But
I have never heard any of the 'songs' pasted in lowercase. Seriously, i never heard any on those mnemonics.
It's as if you were raised in another country

I'm joking, of course; it is I, raised in the english/irish ghetto of Quebec who was raised in another country.

Sorry, I see I was a little unclear. "My Dog Has Fleas" is a four note tune that uke players often use to tune their uke. It has no other use. It's really just a gapped C Ma6 arpeggio that is easier to recall if you put words to it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/4ig6k4/my_dog_has_fleas_ukelele_tuning/

There is a model of ukulele called "the Flea" which came from this mnemonic.
Jim Beloff's "Flea Market Music" was named for the mnemonic as well.
Probably the mnemonic came from the translation of "ukulele" as "jumping flea".

The mnemonics at the bottom of the page are not songs, but verses to remember certain things.

RobertW , I consider the english/irish ghetto of Quebec to be part of my country.

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-1950 Gibson LG1
-1958 Goya M-26
-1974 Yamaha FG75 high strung
-A number of banjos, mandolins, Autoharps, ukuleles, dulcimers, mouth harps, a Tele clone and various other stuff.
-I own a fiddle, but only play it when Maggie and the cats are all out of the house.

modernsaint Senior Member Posts: 388 AKA: Randy Hano Location: SoCal Playing guitar since: When life was simpler	My Dog Has Fleas Jan 5, 2017 12:06:24 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by modernsaint on Jan 5, 2017 12:06:24 GMT -5 I just grew up with my dad telling to sing "My Dog Has Fleas". Never knew a note or note names. It was just the way he thought me. Showed me shapes of the chords and names of them but I had no way of understanding why.
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