Thank you for the kind tempo! I am trying to learn this by rote and I just got a fiddle a couple of days ago, so this video is very helpful. And great job :)
Nice fiddle playing! For all those fiddle players who want to learn this tune, I teach this tune for fiddle on my channel. I threw in a bunch of advanced bluegrass licks too. I post a new lesson for fiddle, guitar, and mandolin there every single week! You can also get the full lesson and the sheet music on my website. Always good to see another fiddle player out there.
This is the bland old tune that I knew before half-hour ago when I saw - for instance - DeafJake, and then young Ashley Hull do it. Now I know why it's so famous !
forjhulet, google the lyrics. its an old civil war tune about an amputee talking about "15 cent for the morphine and 50 cent for the beer...take me away from here" or something like that. it was played for returning cherokee civil war veterans as well as others. interesting stuff.
Very well played. This tune must be Scandinavian, I don't remember it's name. I used to dance folk dance as a kid, and I know it from this time. Where have you learned it?
nope, not scandinavian, but much used as a reel in norway, both at hardanger-fiddle, and violin. here in aust-agder, we even have a text for it. it goes: "oppå romundstad der brygger dei så sterkt et øl, det spenner neri magen som et hesteføll, det går inn gjennom kjeften som ein tommeltott, og utigjennom ræva somm et børseskott"
ahhhh, in the 7th grade, i was in orchestra, & i was 2nd section, 1st chair violin, there was only 1 other girl in 2nd section, & the night of the final preformance, she bailed out, & left me to do from 00:49 to 01:00 by my self, i was pissed.
This is a great rendition of an old tune. One of the first tunes I learned on fiddle but I still don't put those thousand or so extra notes that this video does which adds so much to the flavor of "Soldier's Joy." GREAT FIDDLIN'.
The song is an old American Bluegrass tune. I have pre-recorded myself on guitar and then mandolin and then played the recording through the computer while taking the video. I am a guitar teacher. The violin is a recent hobby.
From what I was taught when I learned the tune was that it one of the oldest Old-Time tunes in the American tool box of tunes. It was said that the tune was played for various kings after battles then moved to America with the immigrants.
i have to play this in my strings ensemble its really hard and im not even playing at that speed!
malitheawesome1 2 months ago
@malitheawesome1 o mg ur so good lol
NickBruno99 2 months ago
hahaha were playing this sort of song in orchestra :D
Violinplayr22 5 months ago
Thank you for the kind tempo! I am trying to learn this by rote and I just got a fiddle a couple of days ago, so this video is very helpful. And great job :)
supershortsporty 6 months ago
You play beautifully! You're very wonderful at playing "The Red Haired Boy" as well.
briannacastillo15 6 months ago
this is one of my favorite tunes to play on my fiddle. When you mix it up and give it your own flare it makes ya stand out
emmyjgcountry 8 months ago
Nice fiddle playing! For all those fiddle players who want to learn this tune, I teach this tune for fiddle on my channel. I threw in a bunch of advanced bluegrass licks too. I post a new lesson for fiddle, guitar, and mandolin there every single week! You can also get the full lesson and the sheet music on my website. Always good to see another fiddle player out there.
FiddlinMikeRolland 9 months ago
this tune is used by alot of the northwest morris sides for a dance called plymouth reel which is mostly used as a mass group dance
carnutter360 1 year ago
Nice Job. Great version.
jennileemartineau 1 year ago
Nice job on the fiddle, I like it, thanks for the tune
rodsparkes 1 year ago
You can play the tune but it has no soul.
kigid 1 year ago
do you have the chords for this im in a folk group at school and wed like to learn it
ps youre really good
marhianneindia 1 year ago
Sort of a Cajun feel to it; I like it!
Spikehsv 1 year ago
I whistle this tune at c/war reenactments all the time :)
bullyboy1863 1 year ago
Good job. 5*****
TruegrassBoy 1 year ago
@TruegrassBoy Thank you!
charlesclem 1 year ago
my sister says your really slow
warrior10002 1 year ago
woah, just found the video and im liking it, you've inspired me to play this one as well, good sound :D
Glitterfaysss 1 year ago
Nice! Sounds like a tune from the west coast in Sweden.
tutalind 2 years ago
This is the bland old tune that I knew before half-hour ago when I saw - for instance - DeafJake, and then young Ashley Hull do it. Now I know why it's so famous !
bertwindon 2 years ago
forjhulet, google the lyrics. its an old civil war tune about an amputee talking about "15 cent for the morphine and 50 cent for the beer...take me away from here" or something like that. it was played for returning cherokee civil war veterans as well as others. interesting stuff.
dictionar1 2 years ago
sheet music please
historyfan1 2 years ago
Are you a brother of Stephen Colbert?
Anyway, I dig this. Soldiers Joy is one my all time favorites and you play it so beautifully.
gregpphoto 3 years ago
Very well played. This tune must be Scandinavian, I don't remember it's name. I used to dance folk dance as a kid, and I know it from this time. Where have you learned it?
Forhjulet 3 years ago
Actually it's a Anglo-American folk song that's a couple hundred years old.
rroma72 3 years ago
nope, not scandinavian, but much used as a reel in norway, both at hardanger-fiddle, and violin. here in aust-agder, we even have a text for it. it goes: "oppå romundstad der brygger dei så sterkt et øl, det spenner neri magen som et hesteføll, det går inn gjennom kjeften som ein tommeltott, og utigjennom ræva somm et børseskott"
manof1234 3 years ago
ahhhh, in the 7th grade, i was in orchestra, & i was 2nd section, 1st chair violin, there was only 1 other girl in 2nd section, & the night of the final preformance, she bailed out, & left me to do from 00:49 to 01:00 by my self, i was pissed.
mandawinter21 4 years ago
This is a great rendition of an old tune. One of the first tunes I learned on fiddle but I still don't put those thousand or so extra notes that this video does which adds so much to the flavor of "Soldier's Joy." GREAT FIDDLIN'.
KC5E 4 years ago
wonder how'd you sound with David Holt...
boeingLL747 4 years ago
sounds good!
mand0play 4 years ago
Purdy gud job on dat one der. Are you playing the guitar also? Sounds gud!
Papachulo57 5 years ago
Thank you! Yes, I have recorded myself on guitar for the backing.
charlesclem 5 years ago
A good sound and tune. Congratulations.
pandiaz 5 years ago
Thank you...
charlesclem 5 years ago
I love this song. I never eared it. Is it from Australia like you?. Who is playing guitar with you?
You do both a good duo.
pandiaz 5 years ago
The song is an old American Bluegrass tune. I have pre-recorded myself on guitar and then mandolin and then played the recording through the computer while taking the video. I am a guitar teacher. The violin is a recent hobby.
charlesclem 5 years ago
From what I was taught when I learned the tune was that it one of the oldest Old-Time tunes in the American tool box of tunes. It was said that the tune was played for various kings after battles then moved to America with the immigrants.
OldtimeFiddler 5 years ago
Wow, you are great
malcolmeat 5 years ago
Thank you malcolmeat!
charlesclem 5 years ago
Very nice!!
dwurtz 5 years ago
Toda Raba Daniel!
charlesclem 5 years ago