hornpipe · Key of G

Coey's Hornpipe

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A hornpipe runs 160 to 200 at a session. One click is a quarter note, not the eighth notes you are playing. Full metronome

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Coey's Hornpipe"Coey's Hornpipehornpipe33302455254304502505425023205405420504055254304502505420532054055054054520540545205450230405450553232052030205405203205320525Book: O'Neill's 1604Notes:"Collected by J. O'Neill"

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X:1604
T:Coey's Hornpipe
R:hornpipe
N:"Collected by J. O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 1604
M:C|
L:1/8
K:G
(3DEF | GdBG FcAF | GABG D2 (GF) | EGAB cBAG | FAd^c (3fed (3ecA |
GdBG FcAF | GABG D2 (GF) | E>edc BAGF | A2 G2 G2 :|
|: (AG) | FAd^c dBAG | FAd^c dfed | ^cdef gece | d^cde d2 d=c |
BcBA GBec | ABAG FAdf | egfe dcBA | G2 B2 G2 :||
FAQ

Questions about Coey's Hornpipe

  • Coey's Hornpipe is in G, in C| time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Very easy. 100% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 5.

  • It is a hornpipe, written in C|.

  • 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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