hornpipe · Key of Gm

O'Fenlon'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 "O'Fenlon's Hornpipe"O'Fenlon's Hornpipehornpipe165113513105331031356513105316511316333103153630111165101510151015101356313510130313110131015101610135013530111Book: O'Neill's 1618

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ABC notation source
X:1618
T:O'Fenlon's Hornpipe
R:hornpipe
B:O'Neill's 1618
M:C|
L:1/8
K:Gm
(fe) | d2 B2 BcdB | cBAG F2 (FE) | DFBF dedB | cBAG F2 (fe) |
d2 B2 B2 (gf) | e2 c2 c2 cB | Acfa gbg=e | f2 f2 f2 :|
|: (fe) | .d(BAB) .d(BAB) | .G(EDE) .G(EDE) | cdec BcdB | ABcA F2 (fg) |
.f(BAB) .g(BAB) | .a(BAB) .b(BAB) | FGAB cdcA | B2 B2 B2 :||
FAQ

Questions about O'Fenlon's Hornpipe

  • O'Fenlon's Hornpipe is in Gm, in C| time. The G minor scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Moderate. 93% 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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