slip jig · Key of D
Yellow legs
O’Neill 1907 no. 419
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Irish tenor banjo tab
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X:419 T:Yellow legs C:anon. O:Ireland B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 419 R:Slip jig, hop M:9/8 L:1/8 K:D FEF DED FED|FEF DED GEC|FEF DED FED|EFE cBA GEC::FDF A2d A2d| FDF A2d GEC|FDF A2d AGF|EGE cBA GEC::fef dfd g2e|fef dfa gec|faf ged c2A| BAG FAF GEC::AFF dFF AFF|AFF dFF GEC|AFF dFF AFF|GEE cBA GEC:|
FAQ
Questions about Yellow legs
Yellow legs is in D, in 9/8 time. The D major scale gives you every note it uses.
Easy. 95% 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 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.