slip jig · Key of G

The boys of Ballysadare

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A slip jig runs 113 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 boys of Ballysadare"The boys of BallysadareSlip jig, hopanon. (Ireland)050502503050305050520202525050502503050357530520202525550525255023250525205252055052525502357530520202525Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 423

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X:423
T:The boys of Ballysadare
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 423
R:Slip jig, hop
M:9/8
L:1/8
K:G
D2G ({A}G2)A B2d|ege d2e g3|D2G ({A}G2)A d2B|ABA B2G E2G|D2G ({A}G2)A B2d|ege d2e g2a|b2a g2e d2B|ABA B2G E2G||
d2d ({e}d2)B d2B|d2d e2f g3|B2d ({e}d2)B d2B|A2G B2G E2D|d2d ({e}d2)B d2B|d2d e2f g2a|b2a g2e d2B|ABA B2G E2G|]
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Questions about The boys of Ballysadare

  • The boys of Ballysadare is in G, in 9/8 time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 98% 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 slip jig, written in 9/8.

  • 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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