hornpipe · Key of G

The wily old bachelor

O’Neill 1907 no. 923

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The wily old bachelor"The wily old bachelorHornpipeanon. (Ireland)333305405025045202304040502530025452025402405025045202304040520024525357303532353235323730353232357535730353233202350235252304525Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 923

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X:923
T:The wily old bachelor
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 923
R:Hornpipe
M:2/4
L:1/16
K:G
(DC)|B,DGA BGDB,|CEAB cAFD|B,DGA BGc>A|(3ABG (3FGE (3DEC (3B,DA,|B,DGA BGDB,|CEAB cAFD|B,DGB ADEF|
G2B2G2::(ga)|bgeg dgBg|dgBg dgBg|bgeg dgBg|fgab a2(ga)|bgeg dgBg|cBAB cdef|gdBG EcAF|G2B2G2:|
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Questions about The wily old bachelor

  • The wily old bachelor is in G, in 2/4 time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 97% 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 2/4.

  • 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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