jig · Key of D

The chorus jig

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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 chorus jig"The chorus jigDouble jiganon. (Ireland)4000240404204000450025240002404042022540455421055454004005545002520554540040245240455422020024542420205054225404554242040452540542040412002524204045254042254245542002452540424520542254045542Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 342

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X:342
T:The chorus jig
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 342
R:Double jig
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
FAD DEF|AFD FED|FAD DFG|A2(A B)GE|FAD DEF|AFD FED|E2E (d/c/A)F|G3 GFE:|
||D2d dcd|F2A AFA|D2d dcd|[1A2A BGE|D2d dcd|F2A AFA|(B/c/d)(B c)AF|G3 GFE:|
||[2ABA (AB)c|dcB cBA|BAG AGF|E2E (d/c/)AF|G3 GFE||FED FA(F|G)B(G F)AG|FED FAF|
[1A2(A B)GE|FED FA(F|G)BG FAF|E2E (d/c/B)F|G3 GFE:|[2A3 ABc|dBd cAc|(B/c/d)(B A)GF|E2E (d/c/AF)|G3 GFE|]
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Questions about The chorus jig

  • The chorus jig is in D, in 6/8 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 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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