hornpipe · Key of A

Higgins' Best

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Higgins' Best"Higgins' BestHornpipe004004054059752505405204204026204004054059752505402040200004204054520420524025045240204020405405107957525054201074555Book: O'Neill's 1750Notes:"collected by McElligott"

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ABC notation source
X:1750
T:Higgins' Best
M:C|
L:1/8
N:"collected by McElligott"
B:O'Neill's 1750
R:Hornpipe
K:A
 A2 (Ac) eAce | acea Tc'2 (ba) | faea  ceaf | ecBA FAEC   |
A,2 (Ac) eAce | acea Tc'2 (ba) | faea  cefe | ceBe A2 z2 :|
 A2 (Ac) BAFA | agaf   ecBA    | dfce  BdAc | dBcA BAFA   |
 EAce    acea | d'bc'a bafa    | eacf ed'bg | a2 a2 a2    |]
FAQ

Questions about Higgins' Best

  • Higgins' Best is in A, in C| time. The A major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Harder. 90% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 10.

  • 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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