hornpipe · Key of G

Hennessy's hornpipe

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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 "Hennessy's hornpipe"Hennessy's hornpipeHornpipeanon. (Ireland)050235252323052050235053250454205023525232305205053250455553323545032222353255532050222205555023053205202054502505325045555Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 813

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ABC notation source
X:813
T:Hennessy's hornpipe
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 813
R:Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:G
D2|GABc dBGB|g2(fg) edBA|GABc dedc|BGAF GFED|GABc dBGB|g2(fg) edBA|dedc BGAF|G2GGG2:|
|:(Bc)|d^cde gB (3.B.B.B|g2ag fddd|gfed eB (3.B.B.B|eddd d2(ef)|gedc BAGB|ABAG FGAB|dedc BGAF|G2GGG2:|
FAQ

Questions about Hennessy's hornpipe

  • Hennessy's hornpipe 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.

  • 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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