Welcome Home
O’Neill 1903 no. 1499
Also known as failte ro.mad a .baile
Irish tenor banjo tab
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ABC notation source
X:1499 T:Welcome Home R:reel N:"collected from Cronin" B:"O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland, 1499" T: failte ro.mad a .baile. M:C| L:1/8 K:D (AG)|FEFG AFD(c|BA)GB AGFD|FEFG A3(g|fd)ec dcAG| FEFG AFDc|BAGB AGFD|FEFG A3(g|fd)ec d2|| (de)|fedf edce|dcAB cAGg|fedf edcA|Adce d2 (de)| fedf edce|dcAB cAGE|FEFG A3(g|fd)ec d2||
Questions about Welcome Home
Welcome Home 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 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.