hornpipe · Key of Gm

Galway Bay

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Galway Bay"Galway Bayhornpipe5010135352323515631563153510545404Tenor Banjo5501015335053050135310155Tenor Banjo331523563315153031013535013510530Tenor Banjo545010131351036352356531533Tenor BanjoBook: O'Neill's 1619Notes:"Collected by F. O'Neill"
ABC notation source
X:1619
T:Galway Bay
R:hornpipe
N:"Collected by F. O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 1619
M:C|
L:1/8
K:Gm
(GA) | BABc dcd^f | g^fga =fabg | fdbg fdcd | BAG^F GFDF |
G2 (GA) BABG | F2 (FG) AGFD | GABc dcBA | B2 G2 G2 :|
|: g2 | gfd^f gabg | gfdf GFDF | BABc dcd=e | fcdB AGFD |
G^FGA BABc | BFdB AFec | d^fga bag=f | d2 g2 g2 :||
FAQ

Questions about Galway Bay

  • Galway Bay is in Gm, in C| time. On a GDAE instrument it sits in first position.

  • Easy. 96% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 6.

  • It is a hornpipe, written in C|.

  • 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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