hornpipe · Key of A

Spellan's Fiddle

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A hornpipe runs 160 to 200 at a session. One click is a quarter note, not the eighth notes you are playing. Full metronome

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Spellan's Fiddle"Spellan's Fiddlehornpipe45054752040602402062045420620424523305475204060240206204242052040602420620245402047542542042767472733332420620245402047526264206426204712Book: O'Neill's 1616Notes:"Collected by J. O'Neill"

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X:1616
T:Spellan's Fiddle
R:hornpipe
N:"Collected by J. O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 1616
M:C|
L:1/8
K:A
c>d | e>ag>b a>fe>c | A>GA>B c>AE>D | C>EA>c d>cB>A | G>Be>g f>cd>B |
A>ag>b a>fe>c | A>GA>B c>AE>D | C>EA>c (3Bgf (3edB | A2 c2 A2 :|
|: G>A | B>cB>A G>Be>f | g>ag>e B>eg>b |a>gf>a g>fe>g | f>b^d>b c>bB>b |
B>cB>A G>Be>f | g>ag>e B>eg>b | a>f^d>B (3dcB (3AGF | (3EGB (3egb e'2 :||
FAQ

Questions about Spellan's Fiddle

  • Spellan's Fiddle is in A, in C| time. The A major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Advanced. 82% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 12.

  • 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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