reel · Key of Gm

The sailor's return

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The sailor's return"The sailor's returnReelanon. (Ireland)331053055103335333105302450101353356535235503153103310530245015301555332353131101351333353325335653515335653531355015310331053024501530155Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 625

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X:625
T:The sailor's return
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 625
R:Reel
M:C|
L:1/8
K:Gm
BAGF DGGB|AFcF dFcF|BAGF (3(D=E^F) GA|BABc dgga|(3(bag) a^f gdd=e|
fdcB AFF2|BAGF (3(D=E^F) GA|(Bd)cA (BG)G2||Ggg^f gag=f|Fff=e fgaf|
Ggg^f dgga|(3(bag) af dgga|(3(bag) (3(agf) gdd=e|fdcB AFF2|BAGF (3(D=E^F) GA|(Bd)cA BGG2|]
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Questions about The sailor's return

  • The sailor's return is in Gm, in C| time. The G 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 6.

  • 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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