Key of D

The Brown Thorn

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Brown Thorn"The Brown Thorn042402454204220024Tenor Banjo5522052402420024Tenor Banjo55220524025450252Tenor Banjo0242402520420Tenor BanjoBook: "O'Neill's 32"Notes:"Slow" "setting 2" "collected by J. O'Neill"
ABC notation source
X: 32
T: The Brown Thorn
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
B: "O'Neill's 32"
N: "Slow" "setting 2" "collected by J. O'Neill"
K:D
D-E | (F>E F)(ABc) | d3 c (BA/2F/2) | ~E4-D2 | {E}D2z2(AB/2c/2) |
d2 d>-e f-d | {f}e2 d>-c B-A | F>A B3 c | B>-A A2 (AB/2c/2) |
d2 d>-e f-d | {f}e2 d>-c B-A | FA Bd (c/2d/2e/2f/2 | d2z2 A,>-B, |
(D>E F>E) FA | B-c d>-c (BA/2F/2) | ~E4-D2 | ~D4 ||
FAQ

Questions about The Brown Thorn

  • The Brown Thorn is in D, in 3/4 time. On a GDAE instrument it sits in first position.

  • 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.

  • The tune type is not recorded in the source collection.

  • 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.