Rolling on the Ryegrass
O’Neill 1903 no. 1553
Also known as ag liatra.d air an seagal
Irish tenor banjo tab
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ABC notation source
X:1553
T:Rolling on the Ryegrass
R:reel
N:"collected from F. O'Neill"
B:"O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland, 1553"
T: ag liatra.d air an seagal.
M:C|
L:1/8
K:Dmix
dB "Segno"|A2(AF) DFAF|G(E{FE}D)E GBdB|BAFA DFAd|BGFG TE2 D2|
FAAF DFAF|(GE{FE}D)E GBdB|BAFA DFAd|BGFG E2 D2||
ABde f2 (fa)|gefd edBd|ABde T(fe)fg|afdf e2 d2|
ABde f2 (fa)|gefd edBd|ABde faab|afdf e2 d2||
A2 (Ac) BAGF|GABc dBAG|FGAc BGGB|AFDF TE2 D2|
FAAc BAGF|GABc dBAG|FGAB defb|afdf e2 d2 "Segno"||Questions about Rolling on the Ryegrass
Rolling on the Ryegrass is in Dmix, in C| time. The D mixolydian 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 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.