slip jig · Key of D

The rocky road to Dublin

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A slip jig runs 113 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 rocky road to Dublin"The rocky road to DublinSlip jig, hopanon. (Ireland)020520020002450205204205024505752370575024505752305250245057523505750245023235320525024504004005040045245040040545250245040040050400402450232353205250245Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 411

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X:411
T:The rocky road to Dublin
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 411
R:Slip jig, hop
%According to Phil Taylor (http://rbu01.ed-rbu.mrc.ac.uk/barflystuff/barflypage.html)
%this tune is played in A minor (without the sharps for the fs)
%It might be a typo in O'Neill, but it seems more likely that
%performance practise has changed since the book was published.
M:9/8
L:1/8
K:D
efe d2B A2A|E2A A2A Bcd|efe d2B A2c|B2A G2A Bcd:|e2a {b}a2f g2b|e2a {b2}a2A Bcd|
e2a {b}a2f g2e|d2B G2A Bcd|e2a {b}a2f g2d|e2a {b}a2A Bcd|efg fga gfe|d2B G2A Bcd||ecA ecA A2a|
ecA ecG Bcd|ecA ecA a2c|d2B G2A Bcd|ecA ecA A2a|ecA ecA Bcd|efg fga gfe|d2B G2A Bcd|]
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Questions about The rocky road to Dublin

  • The rocky road to Dublin is in D, in 9/8 time. The D major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 99% 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 slip jig, written in 9/8.

  • 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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