Tomorrow Morning (Hornpipe) in All Twelve Keys
Tomorrow Morning (Hornpipe) in All Twelve Keys
Tomorrow Morning (Hornpipe) in All Twelve Keys
The fourteenth article about fingerstyle tenor banjo in open G tuning DGdg demonstrates that you can play
Tomorrow Morning in all twelve major keys. Originally in the key of D major, this hornpipe can be easily
transposed to other keys. In fact it is great exercise of playing the single notes (arpeggios) of tonic and
dominant chord. So even if you play different banjo or different tuning, I recommend you to transcribe this tune
to your instrument in various major keys – that may help you even better than reading someone else’s tabs.
According to the information in www.thesession.org , Tomorrow Morning is the tune No. 1661 out of 1850
tunes collected in the O'Neill's Music of Ireland published in 1903 by Francis O'Neill (1848–1936) so it is now
in public domain. It consists of part A and part B, each repeated twice. Credit for introducing this nice tune to
me goes to Jakub Linhart, the bandleader of Irish-oriented Czech acoustic band Jauvajs.
I will present my tabs with the left hand fingering of my choice – fretting fingers are abbreviated as i (index), m
(middle), r (ring) and capital L (little finger) to avoid confusion with number 1 or with capital letter I. The tune
contains many repeating parts – the 5th-6th full measures of part A are the same as the 1st-2nd full measures;
the part B differs from part A only in first two full measures. In those repeating measures no left hand fingering
is indicated.
I will start with the lowest possible key of Bb major and will ascend chromatically – in case of some
challenging keys you will be recommended to skip them temporarily in favor of some more friendly keys. The
right hand is not indicated, generally I play three-finger picking with TITM or TMTI patterns, i.e. with thumb
always on the beats – and yes, my picking fingers often cross over, i.e. the thumb plays thinner string than the
preceding or following index or middle finger. In case of specifying the strings by number, I use the convention
which numbers the strings from the thinnest to the thickest one.
On the following pages there are presented the tabs together with the notation, and my comments to the
fingering in the particular major key. The notation does not show the dotted rhythm of hornpipe. But first here
are some general remarks to the left (fretting) hand.
Enjoy!
Mirek Patek
www.mirekpatek.com , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-AIN9eUeSA