hornpipe · Key of D

The Green Island

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Green Island"The Green IslandHornpipe0545024503205420540523205405202450002030532054205203250325523532050237532005400032054052024500020305320542025405303255Book: O'Neill's 1774

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ABC notation source
X:1774
T:The Green Island
M:C|
L:1/8
B:O'Neill's 1774
R:Hornpipe
K:D
   A2 | dcdA Bcde | gfed cBAG  | FAdf gfed | cedB A2 (Bc) |
        dAeA fAgA | agfe dcBA  | dfeg faeg | f2 d2 d2    :|
|: fg | agfe defg | bagf e2 ed | cAeA gfed | cedB A2 (Bc) |
        dAeA fAgA | agfe dcBA  | Bdce dgeg | f2 d2 d2    :|
FAQ

Questions about The Green Island

  • The Green Island is in D, in C| time. The D 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 C|.

  • 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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