hornpipe · Key of D

The banks of the Ilen

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The banks of the Ilen"The banks of the Ilenhornpipeanon. (Ireland)054040520525040540405250404520540405205250405404052504045Tenor Banjo5022533057532550225330575232357523530232504054040502504045Tenor BanjoBook: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 837
ABC notation source
X:837
T:The banks of the Ilen
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 837
R:hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
(AG) | FDFA d2 (fe) | d2 (fd) ecAG | FDFA d2 (fd) | ecAF GBAG |\
FDFA d2 (fe) | d2 (fd) ecAG | FDFA d2 (fd) | ecAF G2 :|
|: (de) | f2 (fd) g2 (ge) | abag fdde |  f2 (fd) g2 (ge) | abaf g2 (fg)|\
abaf gage | fgfd ecAG | FDFA defd | ecAF G2 :|
FAQ

Questions about The banks of the Ilen

  • The banks of the Ilen is in D, in C| time. On a GDAE instrument it sits in first position.

  • Easy. 97% 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 hornpipe, written in C|.

  • 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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