oh, wait, I get it. how does Merman use 6 points to indicate 7 offsets.
yeah - how do you do that. 
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Wrist, thumb, four fingers, wrist again. And a semitone between the index and middle.
TBH it’s just easier to remember TTSTTTS. Or 2131.
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Sorry for any confusion. In the Practical Music Theory lesson 3.10 Justin suggests using your hand as a tool to identify all natural/sharp or flat notes in a major scale and I posted my answer to that lesson… it pinged up here slightly out of context. Justin used 1) Root = base of thumb, 2) ii = thumb 3) iii = gap between thumb and finger 4) IV = index tip, 5) V = middle tip 6) vi= ring tip, 7) vii = little finger tip, 8) Root/octave = wrist by little finger. Using the tone -semitone pattern of Major Scale TTSTTTS, you can start at any root note, say G, and get the full run, GABCDEF#G. Sure memorising TTSTTTS is great, but I liked Justin’s hand trick, and found it clearer with all Tones at fingertips. Base of thumb, up T to thumb, up T to index, up S to base of index-middle, up T to middle, up to T ring, up T to little, and up S to base of little. Whatever gets you through the night hey?!
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Ah, now I get it. I’ve already known the major scale formula, but this mnemonic was a little strange at first. But that may be just me, I had a harder time trying to make up a mnemonic for the 6 open string note names than learning the notes names only.
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