In what order are guitar strings numbered.?

Question:I'm learning how to play an acoustic guitar and I keep seeing people number the string differently. The way I know it is from bottom to top its 1-6. 1st being thiniest string and 6th being the thickiest strings, but I keep seeing other people number its the opposite way. I'm pretty sure i'm doing it right, but it keeps bugging me and I need to know for sure. Thanks for the help, ROCK ON!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm learning how to play an acoustic guitar and I keep seeing people number the string differently. The way I know it is from bottom to top its 1-6. 1st being thiniest string and 6th being the thickiest strings, but I keep seeing other people number its the opposite way. I'm pretty sure i'm doing it right, but it keeps bugging me and I need to know for sure. Thanks for the help, ROCK ON!

The first string is the thinnest string, High E. The second is B, the third is G, the fourth is D, and the fifth is A. The lowest and thickest string E, is the sixth string. Some guitars have more than six strings, but they generally go from the thinnest and highest, to the thickest and lowest. Most people who hold the guitar in the traditional way, find that the thinnest string is the farthest away from them, but a few who hold the guitar in the style of Jimi HYendrix (left handed, but strung as a right hand guitar) might find this confusing if I did not mention both designations.

If someone does it backwareds though, it is nothing to be concerned about since we are supposed to be learning music forwards and backwards. I use two different memory aids (mnemonic devices) for remembering the strings

Every - Body - Get - Down - And - Exercise

and

Eat - At - Doc's - Grill - Before - Easter

The most important thing is to remember the major third interval between the G and B string. All other strings are tuned in Perfect Fourths and are consistant with each other.

Hope this helps.

My mnemonic was Elvis Ate Dynamite Good Bye Elvis

ok so the one closest to your legs while playing is 1 the one closest to your chin 6
easiest way to describe it.
well thats if you strum right handed