hornpipe · Key of A

McCarty'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 "McCarty's hornpipe"McCarty's hornpipeHornpipeanon. (Ireland)2004040452504045250404525404206025420040404545205420542054200030245040204000402040502545042060254200404045452054205420542000Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 831

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ABC notation source
X:831
T:McCarty's hornpipe
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 831
R:Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:A
(E2|A2)Ac ecAc|d2(fd) ecAc|d2(fd) ecAc|d2fd c2ec|BAGA BdcB|A2Ac ecAc|dcdf edcB|Aagf edcB|A2A2 A2:|
|:(3(efg)|aece fece|Aece fece|defd cdec|BAGA BdcB|A2(Ac) ecAc|dcdf edcB|Aagf edcB|A2A2 A2:|
FAQ

Questions about McCarty's hornpipe

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

  • Easy. 98% 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 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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