The Mills are Grinding
O’Neill 1903 no. 1379
Irish tenor banjo tab
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ABC notation source
X:1379
T:The Mills are Grinding
M:C|
L:1/8
N:"2nd Setting" "collected by Ennis"
B:O'Neill's 1379
K:D
(3DDD (DE) {G}FEFG | ABGB (Ad) d z| (3DDD (DE) {G}FEFG| ABGF EFGE |
(3DDD (DE) {G}FEFG | ABGB Addg | fdec d2 (AB) | {d}cBcG (ED) D " Fine"z||
dcdB c2 ((3ABc) | d2 (fd) cAAc | dcdB cBcA | GEcE (ED) D z |
dcdB c2 ((3ABc) | d2 (fd) cAAg | fdec d2 (AB) | {d}cBcG EFG" D.C."E |]Questions about The Mills are Grinding
The Mills are Grinding is in D, in C| 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.
The tune type is not recorded in the source collection.
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.