hornpipe · Key of G

The Flowers Of Edinburgh

O’Neill 1903 no. 1746

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A hornpipe runs 160 to 200 at a session. One click is a quarter note, not the eighth notes you are playing. Full metronome

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Flowers Of Edinburgh"The Flowers Of EdinburghHornpipe5200255252532054524024504342520025525250230532054502553502332375322025320502320520030352525250232533053205450255Book: O'Neill's 1746

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ABC notation source
X:1746
T:The Flowers Of Edinburgh
M:2/4
L:1/16
B:O'Neill's 1746
R:Hornpipe
K:G
     (GE)  | D2(DE) G2G2  |      BGBd     cBAG  | FGEF DEFG | AFcF E2(GE) |
             D2(DE) G2G2  |      BGBd     efge  | dcBA GFGA | B2G2 G2    :|
|: ((3def) | g2(gf) gbag  |     f2(fe)    fagf  | edef gfed | B2e2 e2(ge) |
              dBGB d2(Bd) | ((3efg) (fa) g2(ge) | dcBA GFGA | B2G2 G2    :|
FAQ

Questions about The Flowers Of Edinburgh

  • The Flowers Of Edinburgh is in G, in 2/4 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 hornpipe, written in 2/4.

  • 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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