slip jig · Key of Em

The highway to Kilkenny

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The highway to Kilkenny"The highway to KilkennySlip jig, hopanon. (Ireland)1253323525023503053323525023023523520230252212023025202357303573235202302352023025225237252502302522Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 451

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X:451
T:The highway to Kilkenny
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 451
R:Slip jig, hop
M:9/8
L:1/8
K:Em
G2g gfg dBG|A2B c2d ecA|G2g gfg dBG|[1(e/f/g).e (f/g/a).f gdB:|[2(A/B/c).A BGE E2z||
||e2f g2e fdB|e2f g2a bge|[1(g/a/b).g (f/g/a).f (e/f/g).e|(B/c/d).B (A/B/c).A BGE:|[2faf gbf dBG|(A/B/c).A BGE E2|]
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Questions about The highway to Kilkenny

  • The highway to Kilkenny is in Em, in 9/8 time. The E minor scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 97% 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 slip jig, written in 9/8.

  • 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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