Key of G

Father Quinn

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Father Quinn"Father Quinn530532053205425025025022055525010532052502322023020520205320205425025025022055Book: O'Neill's 375Notes:"Slow with expression.""collected by J. O'Neill."All ornaments (~) are trills, ">" is an accent.Grace notes are slurred to following note (which is thensometimes slurred to the note after that.)

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X: 375
T:Father Quinn
M:C
L:1/8
B:O'Neill's 375
N:"Slow with expression."
N:"collected by J. O'Neill."
N:All ornaments (~) are trills, ">" is an accent.
N:Grace notes are slurred to following note (which is then
N:sometimes slurred to the note after that.)
K:G
G|c2 (~ed) {c}B2 (AG)|(cB) (~AG) {F}E2 (G>A)|(Bd3) (D3E)|(GA/2B/2) {B}(~A>G) G2z:|
G|(B3d) (e2 =f2)|(e3d) (cB) (~AG)|">"B2 ">"d2 ">"e2 ">"f2|">"g3B {B}A2 zf|
">"g2 e{fe}d B2 A{BA}G|(cB) A{BA}G {F}E2 (G>A)|(Bd3) (D3E)|(GA/2B/2) {B}(A>G) G2z||
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Questions about Father Quinn

  • Father Quinn 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.

  • 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.