O'Reilly's Greyhound
O’Neill 1903 no. 1488
Also known as cu ui ra.gallai.g
Irish tenor banjo tab
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X:1488 T:O'Reilly's Greyhound R:reel N:"collected from O'Reilly" B:"O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland, 1488" T: cu ui ra.gallai.g. M:C| L:1/8 K:G (gf) "Segno" | edBA G2(BG) | Bdef gbag | egdB GFGA | Beed BAAg | edBA G2(BG) | Bdef gbag | ((3efg) (dB) GFGA | Beed BA A2 Hx || eaag bgag | eaaf gdBd | eaag bgag | egdB GABd | eaag bgag | eaaf g2 (ga) | bgag edef | gbaf g2 (fg) "Segno" ||
Questions about O'Reilly's Greyhound
O'Reilly's Greyhound is in G, in C| time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.
Moderate. 94% 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 reel, 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.