jig · Key of A

Sweet Biddy Daly

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A jig runs 108 to 124 at a session. One click is a dotted quarter note, not the eighth notes you are playing. Full metronome

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Sweet Biddy Daly"Sweet Biddy DalyDouble jiganon. (Ireland)50402040422402542025422250402040422402542025400004005224000404500520402040052240004025420254000Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 278

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X:278
T:Sweet Biddy Daly
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 278
R:Double jig
m:Tn = (3n/o/n/
m:Tn2 = (3n/o/n/ m/n/
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:A
a|ecA TBAF|AFE EFA|Bdc BAB|({d}c)BB B2a|ecA TBAF|AFE EFA|Bdc BAB|({d}c)AA A2:|
||A|cee dff|cee ecA|cde eaf|ecA TB2A|cee dff|cee ecA|Bdc BAB|({d}c)AA A2:|
FAQ

Questions about Sweet Biddy Daly

  • Sweet Biddy Daly is in A, in 6/8 time. The A major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Very easy. 100% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 5.

  • It is a jig, written in 6/8.

  • 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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