[BallroomJam]

Hi All

I have written a Periodic Table Mnemonic Song, which I hope you find useful and/or amusing.  The opening line is:

How
He
Lives
Beggars
Belief

The video is at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htshZFplamA

Enjoy!

[Jasim]

Wow, kudos goes out to you and the others that assisted with this. Very impressive! You were even able to maintain some themes! Hope you get the recognition you guys deserve for this.

What brought this on? Must have been a lot of motivation to actually get this together.

[BallroomJam]

Thanks for your kind comments, Jasim.

The idea started when I saw a BBC technology programme "Click" where a presenter learned the Periodic Table in a feature on memorization techniques.  I decided to try a mnemonic along the lines of "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain".  Having worked out the text, I thought setting it to music would help.  As a musician, I find music and lyrics much easier to remember than other data.

Making the video was partly to reinforce the text with visual images and extra information and partly to experiment with using still images in video editing.

I used the periodic table image from webelements.com, which I found to be a fascinating site, including stuff like discovery and etymology. 

I can now tell the atomic number of any element by combining this song with some elements I know the number of already (eg Noble Gases, Fermium etc).

If you find the video useful, I'd be delighted if you could pass the link on to others

Cheers
Matt   

[Mitch]

It looks very cute, and no where near as vulgar as the mnemonics I made up to memorize them when I was in school.

[Guitarmaniac86]

That was very entertaining. I am in awe of how simple yet brilliant that song was.

[BallroomJam]

Thanks Mitch & Guitarmaniac.

If you fancy a go yourself, chords for main table: Dm F Am C Em G
and for Lanth/Act "middle 8s" Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 G

Cheers
M

[Dan]

Haha,

Rhoda Pederson augments caddy income snatching siberian terriers.

I especially enjoyed that line!