slip jig · Key of A

Here's Good Health to the Piper!

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A slip jig runs 113 to 124 at a session. One click is a dotted quarter note, not the eighth notes you are playing. Full metronome

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Here's Good Health to the Piper!"Here's Good Health to the Piper!slipjig400400400505400540040040262452504550450545504054550450426245250Book: O'Neill's Music of IrelandNotes:O'Neill's - 1150

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X:1150
T:Here's Good Health to the Piper!
B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland
N:O'Neill's - 1150
M:9/8
R:slipjig
K:A
c2 A AcA ecA|ede acA e2 d|c2 A AcA ecA|BGB gdB d2 e:|
|:c2 a aec aed|c2 a aec e2 d|c2 a aec aec|BGB gdB d2 e:|
FAQ

Questions about Here's Good Health to the Piper!

  • Here's Good Health to the Piper! is in A, in 9/8 time. The A major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 97% 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 slip jig, written in 9/8.

  • 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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