jig · Key of A

The piper's picnic

O’Neill 1907 no. 2

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The piper's picnic"The piper's picnicDouble jiganon. (Ireland)= 1282040262450526040262420260204026245052654202622460024004004000542456245625554245054254206420406202460Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 2

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X:2
T:The piper's picnic
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 2
R:Double jig
M:6/8
L:1/8
Q:3/8=128
K:A
E|AcA BGE|cde dBG|\
AcA BGE|{F}EDE GAB|AcA BGE|cde dBG|{d}cBA BGE|EFG A2:|
(A/B/)|ceA ceA|cee edc|(B/c/d)G (B/c/d)G|Bdd dcB|\
cde dcB|{d}cBA Ggf|ecA GED|EFGA2:|
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Questions about The piper's picnic

  • The piper's picnic is in A, in 6/8 time. The A major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Moderate. 87% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 6.

  • 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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