hornpipe · Key of Bb

Galway Bay

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Galway Bay"Galway BayHornpipeanon. (Ireland)50101353523235356315631535105454045501015335053050135310155Tenor Banjo331523563315153031013535013510530545010131351036352356531533Tenor BanjoBook: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 853
ABC notation source
X:853
T:Galway Bay
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 853
R:Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:Bb
(GA)|BABc dcd^f|g^fga gabg|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 Bb, 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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