slip jig · Key of G

The swaggering jig

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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 swaggering jig"The swaggering jigSlip jig, hopanon. (Ireland)5255052055205545052550520553202520325353052525552505255530525320252032535305252555250253205253203202520Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 413

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X:413
T:The swaggering jig
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 413
R:Slip jig, hop
m: Mn3/2 = n/o/n/
M:9/8
L:1/8
K:G
d|BGG AGE DGG|BAG GFG Azd|BGG AGE DGG|cBA BGE D2:|c|B/(Md3/2c) dge dBG|
Bdd dBG Azd|Bdd dge dBG|cBA BGE Dzc|.B/(Md3/2c) dge dBG|Bdd dBG Azf|({a}g)fe dBd cBA|cBA BGE D2|]
FAQ

Questions about The swaggering jig

  • The swaggering jig is in G, in 9/8 time. The G 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 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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