reel · Key of Em

The mountain lark

O’Neill 1907 no. 516

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The mountain lark"The mountain larkReelanon. (Ireland)22025025025040422025025204222220250250250404220250230252000202302555755502023020520020222023025557555352303205204222Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 516

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X:516
T:The mountain lark
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 516
R:Reel
m:~n2 = o/4n/m/4n
M:C|
L:1/8
K:Em
E2(BA) Bdef|deBd AFDF|E2(BA) Bdef|dBAF BEE z|E2(BA) Bdef|deBd AFDF|E2(BA) Bdef|gefd (Be)e z||
eB-~B2 efge|fdad bdad|eB-~B2 efge|fedf e2(ef)|eBBB efge|fdad bdad|gafg egfe|dBAF (BE)E z|]
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Questions about The mountain lark

  • The mountain lark is in Em, in C| time. The E minor scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 98% 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 reel, 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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