jig · Key of D

The Jolly Joker

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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 Joker"The Jolly Joker05554502545205554052054205545525505525205422054242400040052424035224542400040054525404220542Book: O'Neill's 1014Notes:"Collected by J.O'Neill"

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X:1014
T:The Jolly Joker
N:"Collected by J.O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 1014
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 DzD|DFA AGE|FEF D3|gdB Bcd|
FEF DzD|DFA AGF|G>BG F>AF|E>BA GFE:|
FAQ

Questions about The Jolly Joker

  • The Jolly Joker 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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