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.
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: