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The bold desertes

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The bold desertes"The bold desertesLong dance, set danceanon. (Ireland)2050204025020520424000054050232050205204240051)40502320502052042402050204025020520424000051)40502320502052042402050204025020520424000Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 982

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X:982
T:The bold desertes
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 982
R:Long dance, set dance
M:C
L:1/8
K:D
(fe)|d2A2 B2(AF)|ABde f(edB)|A(FEF) D2D2|D6 (AG)|F2A2 d2(ef)|g2f2 e2(de)|(fedB) AFEF|A6(AG)|
F2A2 d2(ef)|g2f2 e2(de)|f(edB) AFEF|"^1)"A6(fe)|d2A2 B2(AF)|ABde f(edB)|AFEF D2D2|D6(AG)|
F2A2 d2(ef)|g2f2 e2(de)|f(edB) AFEF|"^1)"A6(fe)|d2A2 B2(AF)|ABde f(edB)|AFEF D2D2|D4|]
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Questions about The bold desertes

  • The bold desertes is in D, in C time. The D 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 set dance, 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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