hornpipe · Key of D

The pleasures of hope

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The pleasures of hope"The pleasures of hopeHornpipeanon. (Ireland)3330245040252542040542020023202504020542Tenor Banjo334055504020023204052527304505450245252730452523040Tenor Banjo333525232025222202505405550402002320405252730450545Tenor BanjoBook: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 864
ABC notation source
X:864
T:The pleasures of hope
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 864
R:Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
(3(ABc)|d>AF>A B>GE>G|(3(FED) F>A d>cB>A|E>ee>f (3(gfe) f>d|e>cA>B A>GF>E|
F>Ad>d d>AF>D|E>ee>f (3(gfe) c>A|d>fa>f b>ge>c|d2 ({e}d)>c d2::(3(ABc)|d>fa>f b>ge>c|d>fa>f g>ec>A|
d>fa>f (3(gfe) f>d|(3(BBB) B>A B>dA>G|F>Ad>d d>AF>D|E>ee>f (3(gfe) c>A|d>fa>f b>ge>c|d2({e}d)>c d2:|
FAQ

Questions about The pleasures of hope

  • The pleasures of hope is in D, in C| time. On a GDAE instrument it sits in first position.

  • 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 hornpipe, written in C|.

  • 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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