Key of Bb

Sloan's Lamentation

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Sloan's Lamentation"Sloan's Lamentationfine561355323513135315105fineTenor BanjoD.C.53535653515535356316D.C.Tenor BanjoBook: O'Neill's 141Notes:"Slow"
ABC notation source
X:141
T:Sloan's Lamentation
N:"Slow"
B:O'Neill's 141
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:Bb
(d/e/)|~f>=g d{a}(g/^f/)|gG (~B>c)|{Bc}d(c/B/) .G(B/A/)|G3"fine":|
d|(g>a) {ga}.b(a/g/)|af d>d|(~g>a) {ga}bg/f/|b3 "D.C."||
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Questions about Sloan's Lamentation

  • Sloan's Lamentation is in Bb, in 2/4 time. On a GDAE instrument it sits in first position.

  • Moderate. 88% 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. 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.