jig · Key of C

The Penniless Traveller

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A jig runs 108 to 124 at a session. One click is a dotted quarter note, not the eighth notes you are playing. Full metronome

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Penniless Traveller."The Penniless Traveller.Jig5533320505523533350300553330505523533251033301303323033313515503255555333205055235332510333Book: O'Neill's Music of IrelandNotes:O'Neill's - 772

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ABC notation source
X:772
T:The Penniless Traveller.
B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland
N:O'Neill's - 772
M:6/8
R:Jig
K:C
G|Gcc cBA|G>AG GEF|Gcc c2 d|ecA A2 G|\
Gcc cA|G>AG GEF|Gcc Bdf|ecc c2:|
||(e/f/)|gec cBc|AFF F2 (f/g/)|afd dec|BGG G2 G|\
Gcc cBA|G>AG GEF|Gcc Bdf|ecc c2:|
FAQ

Questions about The Penniless Traveller

  • The Penniless Traveller is in C, in 6/8 time. The C 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 jig, written in 6/8.

  • 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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