slip jig · Key of Em

The kid on the mountain

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A slip jig runs 113 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 kid on the mountain"The kid on the mountainSlip jig, hopanon. (Ireland)242420542423202522424205502054054202520405050252052025204050205405420320020002323023525320020035753253205022023202202352502202335753253205020520502005202520205205020540542042202522422245040422025250205405420Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 434

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X:434
T:The kid on the mountain
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 434
R:Slip jig, hop
M:9/8
L:1/8
K:Em
EFE FED G2F|EFE cBA BGE|EFE FED G2(G/A/)|BAG FAG FED::BGB AFA G2D|GAB dfe dBA|
BGB AFA G2A|BAG FAG FED::gfe efe e2(e/f/)|gfg efg afd|gfe efe e2(g/a/)|bag fag fed:|
|:eBB e2f g2f|eBB efg afd|eBB e2f g2(g/a/)|bag fag fed::eBe dBA G2A|Bee dBA BGE|
eBe dBA G2A|BAG FAG FED::B,EE eBG E2E|B,EE EFG AFD|B,EE eBG E2(G/A/)|BAG FAG FED:|
FAQ

Questions about The kid on the mountain

  • The kid on the mountain is in Em, in 9/8 time. The E minor 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 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.

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