Key of G

Shady Groves

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Shady Groves"Shady Groves5025025420200502502542025502323502352050450542054240045532060530002D.C.320545325502323502352050Book: O'Neill's 226Notes:"Moderate""Collected by J.O'Neill"The first section ends with a fermata over the double bar.The second section has 10 bars.

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X: 226
T: Shady Groves
B: O'Neill's 226
N: "Moderate"
N: "Collected by J.O'Neill"
N: The first section ends with a fermata over the double bar.
N: The second section has 10 bars.
M: C
L: 1/8
K:G
G>A \
| (Bd)AB GFED | E2A2 A2(GA) | (Bd)AB (GF)ED | E2G2 G2 || AB \
| cBcd He2 Bc | dBAG HA2 (FG) |
| (Ad)^cB (AG)FE | F2D2 D2(Fd) | dcBA ^G2ed | c2A2 A2(AB) |
| (cB)AG F2(dc) | B2G2 G2AB | cBcd He2 Bc | dBAG "D.C."A2 ||
FAQ

Questions about Shady Groves

  • Shady Groves is in G, in C time. The G major 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 6.

  • The tune type is not recorded in the source collection.

  • 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.