hornpipe · Key of D

The Liverpool hornpipe

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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 Liverpool hornpipe"The Liverpool hornpipehornpipeanon. (Ireland)0540405252320454205254042024542040405252320454205252730455505254042024542052540420245420404052523204542052527304555052524040245054205252404024505420404052523025542052523040555Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 816

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ABC notation source
X:816
T:The Liverpool hornpipe
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 816
R:hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
(AG) | FDFA dfaf | gfec dcBA | G2 BG F2 AF | EDEF GFED|\
FDFA dfaf | gfec dcBA | dfaf bgec | d2 d2 d2 :|
|: A2 | d2 fd c2 ec | BABc dcBA | G2 BG F2 AF | EDEF GFED |\
FDFA dfaf | gfec dcBA | dfaf bgec | d2 d2 d2 :|
|: A2 | dfdf cece | Bcde dcBA | GBGB FAFA | EFGA GFED |\
FDFA dfaf | gefd dcBA | afdf gece | d2 d2 d2 :|
FAQ

Questions about The Liverpool hornpipe

  • The Liverpool hornpipe is in D, in C| time. The D major 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 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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