jig · Key of G

The bow-legged tailor

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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 "The bow-legged tailor"The bow-legged tailorDouble jiganon. (Ireland)550532305320505205400320505323525304025053255555255250305253753253000235235252450405450532555Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 131

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X:131
T:The bow-legged tailor
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 131
R:Double jig
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:G
G|GAG gfg|edc B2A|GAG BAG|FAA cBA|GAG gfg|afd cAF|DEG Adc|BGG G2:|
|:d|dBG dBG|ecA dBG|gba gBd|cAA ABc|dBg dBG|EFG AFD|GFG Adc|BGG G2:|
FAQ

Questions about The bow-legged tailor

  • The bow-legged tailor is in G, in 6/8 time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 99% 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 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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