jig · Key of D

The Hollyford jig

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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 Hollyford jig"The Hollyford jigDouble jiganon. (Ireland)4054020520252405025405424054020520020540542452044045405202524050254024054045405200205405404520544244204052025245020502323523732520542425405424520Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 362

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X:362
T:The Hollyford jig
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 362
R:Double jig
m:Tn = (3n/o/n/
m:Tn2 = (3n/o/n/ m/n/
m:Tn3 = n(3n/o/n/ m/n/
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
TF3 AG(F|A)BA (GE)D|EGE (Tc2A)|(d/e/f)(d c)AG|FEF AG(F|A)BA (GE)D|DED (d/c/AG)|FEF GED:|
|:Tc3 cAc|dcA GE(D|E)GE Tc2A|(d/e/f)(d c)AB|ced cA(c|d)cA (GE)D|DED (d/c/AG)|FAF GED:|
|:(TdFF) (TA,FF)|(A,/D/F)(A G)ED|EGE cd(e|f)ed (ef)g|(f/g/a)(f g)b(g|f)d(B A)GF|EFE (d/c/AG)|FEF GED:|
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Questions about The Hollyford jig

  • The Hollyford jig is in D, in 6/8 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 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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