Key of G

Down by the Old Mill

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Down by the Old Mill"Down by the Old Mill5025050320525025305205025375320320525005320502352320553235732053305205550235323020525005Book: O'Neill's 159Notes:"Moderate" "collected by J. O'Neill"

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X:159
T:Down by the Old Mill
N:"Moderate" "collected by J. O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 159
M:C
L:1/8
K:G
G>A|B2 d2 e3 d|eg/f/ ed B2 GA|B2 d2 g>e dB|A6 G>A|
B2 d2 g2 b2|agfe g2 f>e|d2 BG A2 A2|G6||
g2|f>ede fgaf|gfed d3 g|fgab gfed|g6 ge|
dBAG G2 G>A|Bg a/g/f/g/ e2 f>e|d2 BG A2 A2|G6||
FAQ

Questions about Down by the Old Mill

  • Down by the Old Mill is in G, in C 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.

  • The tune type is not recorded in the source collection.

  • 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.