hornpipe · Key of D

Durang's Hornpipe

O’Neill 1903 no. 1772

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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 "Durang's Hornpipe"Durang's HornpipeHornpipe00040004024522040004000402262226200400040245220402352730455505020542024542054232054204045206060242450602323023527304555Book: O'Neill's 1772

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ABC notation source
X:1772
T:Durang's Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
B:O'Neill's 1772
R:Hornpipe
K:D
   A2 | DAFA  DAFA | BcdB  BAFA |   DAFA  DAFA | A,ECE A,ECE |
        DAFA  DAFA | BcdB  BAFA |   fgaf  bgec | d2 d2 d2   :|
|: A2 | defe  dcBA | Bcdc  BAGF | E2 (gf) edcB | Acec  dBA^G |
        A^GAB cBcd | e^def gfge |   fgaf  bgec | d2 d2 d2   :|
FAQ

Questions about Durang's Hornpipe

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

  • Moderate. 94% 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 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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