hornpipe · Key of D

We'll drink to good health

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "We'll drink to good health"We'll drink to good healthHornpipeanon. (Ireland)33302454045204062602450545252060242024545045204062602450545252600003345024505032504545025045204222202454504520406260245054525260000Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 955

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X:955
T:We'll drink to good health
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 955
R:Hornpipe
M:C
L:1/8
K:D
(3(ABc)|dce(c dB)AF|DCE(C DEF)G|A(dcd) BGED|CDEF E2(3(ABc)|(3(dcd) (ec) dBAF|DCE(C DEF)G|A(dcd) BGE(C|D2)DDD2:|
|:(FG)|A(Bcd) edeg|fde(c dc)de|fde(c dB)A(F|E2)EEE2 (3(ABc)|(3(dcd) (ec) dBAF|D(CEC) DEFG|A(dcd) BGE(C|D2)DDD2:|
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Questions about We'll drink to good health

  • We'll drink to good health is in D, in C time. The D major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Moderate. 93% 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 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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