hornpipe · Key of D

No.1 The sailor's hornpipe

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "No.1 The sailor's hornpipe"No.1 The sailor's hornpipehornpipeanon. (Ireland)0540545054054506040542060405420540545054054502452450425502323040454520545025450420242023230404545206024524504255Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 826

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X:826
T:No.1 The sailor's hornpipe
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 826
R:hornpipe
%Title in index: "Sailor's hornpipe, No. 1"
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
(AG) | FAdc d2 (AG) | FAdc d2 (A^G) | Aced cBA^G | Aced cBA=G |\
FAdc d2 (AG) | FAdc d2 A2 | BcdB cdec | f2 d2 d2 :|
|: (ef) | gfge c2 (Ac) | dcdB A2 (GF) | GABG FGAF | EDEF E2 (ef) |\
gfge c2 (ec) | dcdB A2 (^GA) | BcdB cdec | f2 d2 d2 :|
FAQ

Questions about No.1 The sailor's hornpipe

  • No.1 The sailor's hornpipe is in D, in C| 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 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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