slip jig · Key of Am
The Irish girl
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Irish tenor banjo tab
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ABC notation source
X:425
T:The Irish girl
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 425
R:Slip jig, hop
m:Tn2 = (3n/o/n/ m/n/
M:9/8
L:1/8
K:Am
c2A AEA AEA|cBc Ace dcB|Tc2A AEA AEA|BAB gfe dBG:|cde dfd e2d|
cde efd ged|cde efd efg|agf {a}gfe dBG|cde efd e2d|cde efd ged|cde efd efg|agf {a}gfe ded|]FAQ
Questions about The Irish girl
The Irish girl is in Am, in 9/8 time. The A minor 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 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.