The Stand­ard 41 Sur­prise Minor Meth­ods

This is a small web app de­signed to sup­port bell­ringers with learn­ing the ‘Stand­ard 41’ Sur­prise Minor meth­ods.

Table is a click­able table that shows the meth­ods ar­ranged in columns and rows de­pend­ing on their over / un­der work.

Quiz gen­er­ates ques­tions to test your know­ledge of the struc­ture of each method.

Prac­tice al­lows you to ‘tap-along’ to test your know­ledge of the blueline of a par­tic­u­lar method, or ran­dom leads.

Use Set­tings to en­able / dis­able cer­tain meth­ods from ap­pear­ing in the other tabs if you are learn­ing a sub­set of the 41.

If you would like the con­tent on this page to be big­ger then either use Ctrl+ & Ctrl- or pinch-to-zoom, whichever your device sup­ports.

The be­low table ex­ists in a few guises on the in­ter­net. It shows all 41 meth­ods laid out in a grid with those in the same column hav­ing the same work over the treble, and those in the same row hav­ing the same work un­der. Meth­ods that dif­fer only at the half-lead or lead-end are in ad­ja­cent columns/​rows.

Click a method name to show the blue line.

Cam­bridge overNor­wich overLon­don overCarl­isle over
Lead-­end ⇒
Half-­lead ⇓		12161216121216
Cam­bridge un­der16IpswichNor­folkNorthum­ber­landWhit­ley
36Neth­er­sealeAn­nable’s Lon­donCunecastre
56Cam­bridgePrim­roseCarl­isle
Surfleet un­der36Wark­worth
56SurfleetHex­hamMun­den
Bever­ley un­der56Bever­leyBer­wickChester
Nor­wich un­der16Nor­wich
36BourneHullSan­diacreWooler
West­min­ster un­der36West­min­sterLin­coln
Al­l­end­ale un­der36Al­l­end­aleCold­stream
Kelso un­der56Bam­bor­oughBacupKelso
Lon­don un­der36YorkLightfootRossend­aleLon­donAl­n­wickCan­ter­bury
Wells un­der16DurhamWear­mouthStam­fordWellsNew­castleMor­peth

Test your know­ledge of the meth­ods us­ing this mul­tiple choice quiz.

is

  • 2nds
  • 6ths

place

    over

      with a

      • 16
      • 36
      • 56

      half-lead

      Choose whether ring a lead or course of a par­tic­u­lar method, or ran­dom leads from all the meth­ods.

      Place Bell

      Se­lect which meth­ods are ac­tu­ally in­cluded when prac­ti­cing ran­dom leads or us­ing the quiz.