Lock The Door
O’Neill 1903 no. 993
Also known as Cuir Glas Air An Doras
Irish tenor banjo tab
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ABC notation source
X:993 T:Lock The Door T:Cuir Glas Air An Doras R:double jig C:"collected by O'Reilly" S:993 O'Neill's Music of Ireland B:O'Neill's 993 M:6/8 K:Em z|EFE BAG|FDF AGF|EFE BAG|AGF E3| |EFE BAG|FDF AGF|B/-c/-dB AGF|E3 E2:| A|B2 ^c d2 e|d2 B AFD|B2 ^c d2 e|fdB fdB| |B2 ^c d2 e|dcB AFA|B/-^c/-dB AGF E3 E2:| E|E2 B E2 B|E2 B BAB|E2 B E2 B|AGF E3| |E2 B E2 B|E2 B BAB|dcB AGF|E3 E2:|
Questions about Lock The Door
Lock The Door is in Em, in 6/8 time. The E minor scale gives you every note it uses.
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. 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.