reel · Key of A
Shearing the sheep
O’Neill 1907 no. 734
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Irish tenor banjo tab
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X:734 T:Shearing the sheep C:anon. O:Ireland B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 734 R:Reel M:C| L:1/8 K:A EAAB ABcB|ABcA BFF2|EAAB ABce|faec d2(cB)|A3B ABcB|ABcA BFF2|EA (3(ABA) ABce|faec HA2cd|| e2(ae) feaf|eaec d2(cd)|e2(ae) fefb|afec d2(cd)|e2(ae) feaf|eaec d2(cB)|c2(cB) cefb|afec dBcA "_D.C." |]
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Questions about Shearing the sheep
Shearing the sheep is in A, in C| time. The A 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 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.