Mammoth Memory

How do you name the strings of a guitar?

From a guitarists point of view, we now know that the guitar is seen as this.

Notice how the pickguard is the other way up now.

The strings are labelled from the guitarists point of view as follows:

The strings are labelled from the guitarists point of view as follows

The top string is the 1st string and the thinnest string
The bottom string is the 6th string and the thickest string
(all from a guitarists point of view)

The way Mammoth Memory remembers this is to recall that a tree gets thinner as you get to the top:

The way Mammoth Memory remembers this is to recall that a tree gets thinner as you get to the top:

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