hornpipe · Key of A

Humphrey'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 "Humphrey's Hornpipe"Humphrey's HornpipeHornpipe040002000200424040002004240442040002000200424020424520452400040552020545240005544775757904055202054524020424520452400Book: O'Neill's 1727

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ABC notation source
X:1727
T:Humphrey's Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
B:O'Neill's 1727
R:Hornpipe
K:A
   A2 c>A e>Af>A | e>Af>A e>cB>c | A2 c>A e>Af>A | e>cB>c A>FF>E  |
   A2 c>A e>Af>A | e>Af>A e>cB>c | A>BA>F E>cd>f | ecdB   c>A A2 :|
|: A2 c>e a2 a>f | e>fe>d c>dB>c | A2 A>e a2 a>g | g>bb>a b>ab>c' |
   A2 c>e a2 a>f | e>fe>d c>dB>c | A>BA>F E>cd>f | e>cd>B c>A A2 :|
FAQ

Questions about Humphrey's Hornpipe

  • Humphrey's Hornpipe is in A, in C| time. The A major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Moderate. 96% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 9.

  • 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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