hornpipe · Key of G
Mullingar Races, The
O’Neill 1903 no. 1588
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Irish tenor banjo tab
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X:1588
T:Mullingar Races, The
R:hornpipe
N:"1st Setting" "Collected by F. O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 1588
M:2/4
L:1/16
K:G
D2 | GABG ABcA | defd dcBA | BcBG ABAG | FGAB cAFD |
GABG ABcA | defd dcBA | B2d2 cAGF | D(G{A}GF) G2 :|
(3def | g2eg f2ed | gage f2(ed) | defg abag | f2dd (de)dc |
B2BG AFD2 | BdBG ABcA | defd cAGF | D(G{A}GF) G2 :||FAQ
Questions about Mullingar Races, The
Mullingar Races, The is in G, in 2/4 time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.
Easy. 99% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 7.
It is a hornpipe, written in 2/4.
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.