slip jig · Key of G

A whack at the wigs

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A slip jig runs 113 to 124 at a session. One click is a dotted quarter note, not the eighth notes you are playing. Full metronome

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "A whack at the wigs"A whack at the wigsSlip jig, hopanon. (Ireland)530555553055530530555553501530553252335335753111301130315305Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 424

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X:424
T:A whack at the wigs
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 424
R:Slip jig, hop
M:9/8
L:1/8
K:G
d||cAG G2d G2d|cAG G2d cAG|cAG G2d G2d|cde =f2d cAG:|
d2g faf g2g|d2g g2a bag|=f2f fge f2f|cAc =f2d cAG:|
FAQ

Questions about A whack at the wigs

  • A whack at the wigs is in G, in 9/8 time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 98% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 7.

  • It is a slip jig, written in 9/8.

  • Yes. Copy the ABC below into the ABC transposer, move the transpose control by semitone, and the notation and tab are redrawn together in the new key. Handy if a singer wants it lower or the tune sits awkwardly on the neck.

  • Yes. Tenor banjo, mandolin and octave mandola are all tuned GDAE, so the tab above is identical for all three. A bouzouki tuned GDAD needs the top string adjusting, which the converter handles.

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