hornpipe · Key of D

Sailor's Hornpipe, The

O’Neill 1903 no. 1578

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Sailor's Hornpipe"The Sailor's Hornpipehornpipe30245450405205420235252753205420205452405205420235253730455530235252535737302352527532054202054524052054202352537304555Book: O'Neill's 1578Notes:"No. 2"

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X:1578
T:Sailor's Hornpipe, The
R:hornpipe
N:"No. 2"
B:O'Neill's 1578
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
(3ABc | dcdA FAdf | edcB A2 (fg) | afaf bagf | edcB A2 (fe) |
dcdB FAdf | edcB A2 (fg) | afdg bgec | d2 d2 d2 :|
|: (3efg | afaf d2 (ga) | bgbg e2 (fg)  |  afaf bagf |  edcB A2 (fe) |
dcdB FAdf | edcB A2 (fg) | afdg bgec | d2 d2 d2 :||
FAQ

Questions about Sailor's Hornpipe, The

  • Sailor's Hornpipe, The is in D, in C| time. The D major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 95% 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 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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