hornpipe · Key of D

The Kildare fancy

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Kildare fancy"The Kildare fancyhornpipeanon. (Ireland)35204040452020402054202230250542052040404523302040205420223025040245502545250405452545333330000020000020542050254525040545254500203020040245Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 809

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X:809
T:The Kildare fancy
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 809
R:hornpipe
M:2/4
L:1/16
K:D
d>B | A>FD>F A>Fd>B | (3ABA F>A f>ed>c | B>AB>f g>ef>d | e>dc>B A2d>B |A>FD>F A>Fd>B |
(3ABA F>A f>ed>c | B>AB>f g>ef>d | e>c (3ABc d2 ::d>e| f>dc>d B>dA>F | D>dc>d f>dc>d |
e>A (3AAA f>A (3AAA | (3efe (3dcB A2d>e |f>dc>d B>dA>F | D>dc>d f>dc>d | e>Af>A g>Af>A |  e>c (3ABc d2 :|
FAQ

Questions about The Kildare fancy

  • The Kildare fancy is in D, in 2/4 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 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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