jig · Key of D

The Drogheda weavers

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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 Drogheda weavers"The Drogheda weaversDouble jiganon. (Ireland)04004004052040045040250400400405204025040200245024200040520402002450242020245204025Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 361

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X:361
T:The Drogheda weavers
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 361
R:Double jig
m:Tn2 = (3n/m/n/ o/n/
m:Tn3 = n(3n/o/n/ m/n/
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
AFD DFD|AFD (G2E)|AFD DF(G|A)FD TE2d|AFD DFD|AFD (G2E)|DFA (B2d)|AFD E2D:|
|:(D/E/F/G/A/B/ Tc3)|TB3 A2D|DFA (d2B)|AFD E2D|(D/E/F/G/A/B/ Tc3)|TB3 A2B|ABc d2B|AFD E2d:|
%Bar 8 last note org. 4th note
FAQ

Questions about The Drogheda weavers

  • The Drogheda weavers 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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