jig · Key of D

The jolly jocker

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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 jolly jocker"The jolly jockerDouble jiganon. (Ireland)05554502545205554052054205545525505525205422054242400040052424025224542400040054525404220542Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 229

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X:229
T:The jolly jocker
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 229
R:Double jig
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
D>dd dFG|ABG FGE|D>dd dFA|GBA GFE|D>dd F>dd|E>dd D>dd|fdB AGF|EBA GFE:|
|:FEF D z D|DFA AGE|FEF D3|fdB Bcd|FEF D z D|DFA AGF|G>BG F>AF|E>BA GFE:|
FAQ

Questions about The jolly jocker

  • The jolly jocker is in D, in 6/8 time. The D 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 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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