hornpipe · Key of D

The Wicklow hornpipe

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A hornpipe runs 160 to 200 at a session. One click is a quarter note, not the eighth notes you are playing. Full metronome

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Wicklow hornpipe"The Wicklow hornpipehornpipeanon. (Ireland)33345020402450540402450254054050545055020402450540402450254005400232540540335250250405540553020402405402402450254005400Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 828

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ABC notation source
X:828
T:The Wicklow hornpipe
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 828
R:hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
(FG) | A>BAF DEFG | AGFD c2 (3ABc | defd cAGF | (D>G {A}(3GFG D)>GG z |\
A>BAF DEFG | AGFD c2 (3ABc |
defd (c<A)AG |  F2 D2 D2 :: z2 | f2 ({g}f)d cAGF | D2 g2 g2 af | d3e fdec | Addc Add z |
efec ABcA | dcAB c2 (3ABc | defd (c<A)AG | F2 D2 D2 :|
FAQ

Questions about The Wicklow hornpipe

  • The Wicklow hornpipe is in D, in C| time. The D 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 hornpipe, 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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