slip jig · Key of G

Ride a mill

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A slip jig runs 113 to 124 at a session. One click is a dotted quarter note, not the eighth notes you are playing. Full metronome

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Ride a mill"Ride a millSlip jig, hopanon. (Ireland)52550525255253052550524502305255052525525320525505235000230502332053223505023532050002305023320532235050232052500025320222323222232722223232000023022232322223272222735232302320Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 453

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X:453
T:Ride a mill
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 453
R:Slip jig, hop
M:9/8
L:1/8
K:G
dBG G2(A G2)B|dBG GBd g2e|dBG G2(A G2)E|F2G A2B c2e|dBG G2(A G2)B|
dBG GBd gfe|dBG GAG (Bc)d|e2A A2B c2(e||d)ef g2(g f)ed|g2B B2c d2e|def gag (fe)d|
e2A A2B c2e|def g2g fed|g2B B2c d2e|def gfe (af)d|e2A ABd gfe||BBB (g2B) g2B|
BBB (g2B) b2B|BBB (g2B) g2B|AAA A2(B c2)A|BBB (g2B) g2B|BBB (g2B) b2B|BBB (b2g) a2f|gfg (e2f) (gf)e|]
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Questions about Ride a mill

  • Ride a mill is in G, in 9/8 time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 98% 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 slip jig, written in 9/8.

  • 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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