jig · Key of D

Maguire's kick

Transpose
Metronome & tempo
Metronome

A jig runs 108 to 124 at a session. One click is a dotted quarter note, not the eighth notes you are playing. Full metronome

Press play, or tap a note to start there.

Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Maguire's kick"Maguire's kickSingle jiganon. (Ireland)5042202400604224050250422024006042202250025020520402502520025050252204042240525042202400604224005025242202400404004025Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 389

Find the collections behind these tune settings.

ABC notation source
X:389
T:Maguire's kick
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 389
R:Single jig
m:Tn2 = (3n/o/n/ m/n/
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
(d/A/)|F2E EDE|F2D DCD|F2E EFA|Td2e fdA|F2E EDE|F2D DCD|F2E EDE|B3 d2:|
||A|ABd e2f|({e}d2)B A2F|ABd e2f|d3 B2A|ABd ede|fdB BAF|AFE EFA|d3 fdA:|
||F2E EDE|F2D DCD|F2E EFA|({e}d2)e fdB|F2E EDE|F2D D2F|A>FD DFA|B3 d2|]
FAQ

Questions about Maguire's kick

  • Maguire's kick is in D, in 6/8 time. The D major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 97% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 6.

  • 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.

Other jigs