slip jig · Key of Em

Comb your hair and curl it

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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 "Comb your hair and curl it"Comb your hair and curl itSlip jig, hopanon. (Ireland)2224502004520222450250520222450200452022245020505420300200230035253002005352054203002002323035253235323052025420Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 447

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X:447
T:Comb your hair and curl it
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 447
R:Slip jig, hop
M:9/8
L:1/8
K:Em
B2E E2(F G2A)|B2e e2(^c d)BA|B2E E2(F G2A)|B2G A2(G- F)ED|B2E E2(F G2A)|B2e e2(^c d)BA|B2E E2(F G2A)|BAG (A2G) (FE)D|]
[|g2e efe (e2f)|g2e e2(g a)fd|g2e efe edc|d2B A2(G F)ED|g2e efe (e2f)|gfg (e2g) (afd)|gfg agf g2e|d2(B A)BG (FE)D|]
FAQ

Questions about Comb your hair and curl it

  • Comb your hair and curl it is in Em, in 9/8 time. The E minor 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 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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