hornpipe · Key of D

Mitchell'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

Press play, or tap a note to start there.

Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Mitchell's Hornpipe"Mitchell's HornpipeHornpipe05454250545425054502523530450245454250545025054502523530455022005542025404202540422005545450252353045Book: O'Neill's 1729Notes:"collected by J. O'Neill"

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X:1729
T:Mitchell's Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
N:"collected by J. O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 1729
R:Hornpipe
K:D
    A2 | d>cd>c (B>d) A2 | d>cd>c (B>d) A2 | d>cd>e  f>df>g  | a>ge>c d>AB>c   |
         d>cd>c (B>d) A2 | d>cd>e (B>d) A2 | d>cd>e  f>df>g  | a>ge>c d2      :|
|: d>e | f2 f2    e2  e2 | d2 d2   c3   z  | B>AB>d (c<A) F2 | B>AB>d (c<A) F2 |
         f2 f2    e2  e2 | d2 d2   c3   z  | d>cd>e  f>df>g  | a>ge>c d2      :|
FAQ

Questions about Mitchell's Hornpipe

  • Mitchell's Hornpipe is in D, in C| time. The D major 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 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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