reel · Key of G
How the money goes
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Irish tenor banjo tab
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ABC notation source
X:620 T:How the money goes C:anon. O:Ireland B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 620 R:Reel M:C L:1/8 K:G G2Bd gdBd|cBAc BGEF|G2Bd gdBd|ecAF GFED|G2Bd gdBd|cBAc BGEF|G2Bd gdBd|ecAF G2|| ef|gbef gedf|gbef g2ef|gbef gedc|BGAF G2ef|gbef gedf|gbef g2ga|bgaf gfed|egfa g2 z2|]
FAQ
Questions about How the money goes
How the money goes is in G, in C time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.
Easy. 95% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 7.
It is a reel, 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.