hornpipe · Key of G

The Kilfinane hornpipe

O’Neill 1907 no. 932

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A hornpipe runs 160 to 200 at a session. One click is a quarter note, not the eighth notes you are playing. Full metronome

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Kilfinane hornpipe"The Kilfinane hornpipeHornpipeanon. (Ireland)330205253040532305230552323202054250205253040532305320532532052533235350532353230523535052520205420235350532353230523753252523733323525257230303023052527323575320523525257230303023575325325373Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 932

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ABC notation source
X:932
T:The Kilfinane hornpipe
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 932
R:Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:G
(DE)|DGBd cAFA|Ggfg edBc|DGGB cBcB|(3ABA (3GFE d2(DE)|DGBd cAFA|dgfg edcB|edcB dcBA|G2B2G2:|
|:(Bc)|dcde dcBc|dgfg edBc|dcde dBGB|(3ABA (3GFE D2(Bc)|dcde dcBc|dgfg edBg|bagf afdf|g2b2g2:|
|:(Bc)|dBGB dbfg|ecAc efge|afdf bgfg|(3aba (3gfe d2(Bc)|dBGB dbfg|ecAc efga|bagf agfd|g2b2g2:|
FAQ

Questions about The Kilfinane hornpipe

  • The Kilfinane hornpipe is in G, in C| time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 96% 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 hornpipe, written in C|.

  • 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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