hornpipe · Key of G

The flowers of Edinburgh

O’Neill 1907 no. 920

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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 EdinburghHornpipeanon. (Scotland)5200255252532054524024504342520025525250230532054502553350233237532202532050232052003052525250232533053205450255Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 920

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X:920
T:The flowers of Edinburgh
C:anon.
O:Scotland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 920
R:Hornpipe
M:2/4
L:1/16
K:G
(GE)|D2(DE) G2G2|BGBd cBAG|FGEF DEFG|AFcF E2(GE)|D2(DE) G2G2|BGBd efge|dcBA GFGA|B2G2G2:|
|:(3def|g2(gf) gbag|f2(fe) fagf|edef gfed|B2e2 e2(ge)|dBGB d2(Bd)|(3(efg) (fa) g2(ge)|dcBA GFGA|B2G2G2:|
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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