slip jig · Key of A

Melancholy Martin

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A slip jig runs 113 to 124 at a session. One click is a dotted quarter note, not the eighth notes you are playing. Full metronome

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Melancholy Martin."Melancholy Martin.slipjig2002406420022020024064244620206420602460260220024064244620Book: O'Neill's Music of IrelandNotes:O'Neill's - 1154

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ABC notation source
X:1154
T:Melancholy Martin.
B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland
N:O'Neill's - 1154
M:9/8
R:slipjig
K:A
E|A2 A BcA GFE|A2 A B2 B e2 E|A2 A BcA GFE|F2 F G2 E A2:|
|:E|AGF EDC DE(F/G/)|A2 E G2 A B2 E|A2 A BcA GFE|F2 F G2 E A2:|
FAQ

Questions about Melancholy Martin

  • Melancholy Martin is in A, in 9/8 time. The A major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Harder. 84% 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 slip jig, written in 9/8.

  • 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.

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