This is useful when there is an unexpected pattern that is hard to feel intuitively.
Imagine your 8 fingers are drums, and there is a drum both below and above your hand.
* 1, drum down with left pinky
* "And", drum up with left pinky
* 2, drum down with left ring
* "And", drum up with left ring
* etc.
Drum while listening, and identify which finger drum the sound lands to.