hornpipe · Key of G

The Hunter's Hornpipe

O’Neill 1903 no. 1717

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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 Hunter's Hornpipe"The Hunter's HornpipeHornpipe53202550103055235320520000235025355232032055253030455555255550232054525555253250255255532053205404525303045555Book: O'Neill's 1717Notes:"collected by F. O'Neill"

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X:1717
T:The Hunter's Hornpipe
M:2/4
L:1/16
N:"collected by F. O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 1717
R:Hornpipe
K:G
   (dc) | B2AB d2de | =fece d2d^f | g2dc BAGB | A2AA A2Bc |
          defd gddB |  cBAc B2AG  | GBdg ecAF | G2GG G2  :|
|: (dB) | G2GG G2AB |  cBAG F2dB  | G2GG GBdg | fdef d2dB |
          G2GG gfed |  cBAG F2AF  | GBdg ecAF | G2GG G2  :|
FAQ

Questions about The Hunter's Hornpipe

  • The Hunter's Hornpipe is in G, in 2/4 time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Very easy. 100% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 5.

  • 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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