jig · Key of D

How Is Your Mother?

Transpose

Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "How Is Your Mother?"How Is Your Mother?0552255253025450024Tenor Banjo5522552530250245Tenor Banjo040204054250545005Tenor Banjo4020405420542455Tenor BanjoBook: O'Neill's 1829
ABC notation source
X:1829
T:How Is Your Mother?
M:6/8
L:1/8
B:O'Neill's 1829
K:D
   A | d2 d f2 f | a2 a f2 d | g2 e f2 d | cde ABc  |
       d2 d f2 f | a2 a f2 d | g2 e f2 d | ABc d2  :|
|: A | F2 A E2 A | F2 A d2 c | B2 d A2 d | cde A2 G |
       F2 A E2 A | F2 A d2 c | Bed  cBc  | d3  d2  :|
FAQ

Questions about How Is Your Mother?

  • How Is Your Mother? is in D, in 6/8 time. On a GDAE instrument it sits in first position.

  • 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 jig, written in 6/8.

  • 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.

Other jigs