slip jig · Key of G

Drops of brandy

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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 "Drops of brandy"Drops of brandySlip jig, hopanon. (Ireland)50525225250525230505252252323040305052522525052523205052353523230403205253523525253523052535235232304030525352352525352320525375352323040320Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 448

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X:448
T:Drops of brandy
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 448
R:Slip jig, hop
M:9/8
L:1/8
K:G
ded B(GB) BGB|ded BGB c2A| ded B(GB) BGB|cBc AFA c2A|ded B(GB) BGB|ded BGB (cB)A|ded Bcd (gd)B|cBc AFA (cB)A||
||GBd g(dB) gdB|GBd gdB c2A|GBd g(dB) gdB|cBc AFA c2A|GBd g(dB) gdB|GBd gdB (cB)A|GBd gb(a g)dB|cBc AFA (cB)A|]
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Questions about Drops of brandy

  • Drops of brandy is in G, in 9/8 time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 99% 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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