Drowsy Maggie fiddle tune~Hillar Bergman

[dadog1050]

You are very good! I'm a young fiddle player myself and want to learn this song when I get more experience. Do you know how to play John Ryan's Polka?? Its in Titanic and by Gaelic Storm. It's one of my favorites and the first fiddle song I learned!

[richieisconstipated]

i love this song and you play good i can also play this on the piano

[darkfluter]

Me encanta tu version, me suena como un Hornpipe. saludos

[PeachRamuneXD]

You kinda added a bluegrass twist to it a few times, I love it!

[osrockstheworld]

That is cool dude keep going with that. !!!!!

[osrockstheworld]

Cool song dude!!!!

[Fusion2222]

that double stops.. amazing

[DillonUSMC27]

Great tune Sir! I love it!!! It sounds like something that would be on the soundtrack of the HBO show "Deadwood". I don't know if it's you or the fiddle, but it's got an erie feel to it, and I can't get enought of it! Would you do a waltz plaese?

[4096quagmire]

I really like this :D Only comment I'd make is that it's a teeny bit slow. Most people disagree with me on that one, but I'd find it hard to dance to this, I think.

[Roovisk]

WOW!!!! I like it

[comicheroin]

This sounds so alive and heartfelt, I really liked it.

[7danielradcliffe7]

ooooooh i like this version :D

[FiddleHeroErik]

nice check out my version :) plz i need veiwers xD

[MissCartoonist]

Very nice, dude! You made it so pretty! I did this piece for my Grade 2 exam, when I started learning this tune I never thought I would be able to play it but I guess I was wrong lol. It's a great tune and I hope to be able to play it like this one day :)

[mwallaby]

It's really fun on cello - try playing around with the octaves, sounds interesting :)

[gooseberry2k8]

ive heard several versions of this, with different speeds and stuff. this is the best one with trills ive heard :)

[noooon]

that a good one man

[Dixdye]

Great :D I'm trying to learn it on cello.

[meandmymandola]

Cello!!!! Post it when you do Please :-)

[Aponijohn]

hey man! your fingers are too big for the frets LOL!

[madtiger111]

Uh, what frets? haha.

[radar200]

they are no frets on the fiddle,,,lol

[meandmymandola]

Thats impossible...fiddles don't have frets LOL

[Vebbster]

Good thing there ain't no frets on a fiddle.

[thomasderoo0cocc]

it is in Anno 1503 too! Very Nice!

[AnsonFiddler]

Outstanding, great playing! Thanks for posting!!!

[yoonparknz]

good job!!!

[scotlandizdabest]

I just realised I recognise that from the film titanic! Just if you have ever seen it. Great video!

[SimonMcBlack]

wow... I tried to play it...

Now i've heard this, I only want to break my violin and put it away for ever...

[PoppyZoeAlfie]

I know how you feel...

[cercamons]

Wonderful music. Thanks!

[axchus]

that smoll the violin...and he is so big XD..but he play good

[Mamaslittlebaby]

Cool! hahaq

[Tadhg64]

nyaaah-dum-dum, deedle-dodle deedle-dodle, nyaah-dum-dum, deedle-dodle deedle-dah.

Those are technical terms.

[evansdrummer]

Finally, someone who speaks my language! :)

[mrprefect42]

You are completly right

dee-dadeldee dadeldedldedldedladel dee-dadeldee daedldidldidldidldidld-dam

[Artcarnie]

I've just listened to about twelve different Drowsey Maggies. Yours sounded the happiest!

[clubcardpoints]

Bravo!!

[elnentju]

wow, goed man!

[nrideout123]

you must have alot of practice im a fiddle player myself and its really hard to get songs like that perfect!!

[plejdg02]

when you play drowsy maggy how do you get it to sound twangy count like i know its just a techinical question but I'm having trouble with that

[y0e0r0t]

its not his playing...its his strings, he's using steel strings instead of synth or gut core strings that classical violins usually employ

[eileenmclain]

It's a slide that he puts in there that makes it sound twangy.(IMHO) Slide from the open D to the E note. That's what makes it sound different than a lot of the other versions. Usually celtic tunes don't employ a lot of slides, but I think that's what "makes" his version so unique!

[fassifernit]

the slide is 'very' appalacian, other stuff he has is of that ilk.. I dare say he is slightly bluegrass/appalacian doing DM - but you are correct n e hoo, it's the slide that does it!

[BaconFries]

well played!!

[PeterSchroder]

Hillar, are your ancestors from Germany? 'Bergmann' stands for 'miner' written with two 'n' (in its original). Thanks also for your advise in the Comments&Responses. You play Drowsy Maggie absolute magical!

[catinnahat]

Latvian/Estonian ancestry.

[Qwerti60]

Jewish?

[catinnahat]

No, but I like Klezmer fiddling

[Qwerti60]

Cool!

[Qwerti60]

It's special because it comes from your hart

[Faleen3]

nice, I like your version.

Lol mines faster.

[AaronShaunBrennan]

GREAT JOB!! 5*****!

[Schlabbelbuh]

ui *_*

[blackdubh1945]

Great man just great. Thanks. I am trying to play it on the mandolin, so I know it is not easy to get to grips with it.

[McElhinney65]

Put the mandolin effort on Youtube. It's very difficult to double fret the D and E string pairs which Drowsy Maggie requires. Pat Molloy from Birmingham, England (originally from Connemara) plays the best version of this tune that I've ever heard. It's all about timing.

[SuckMytoe2]

i can play this one too but a little bit different

[SuckMytoe2]

awesome !!!!

[brad800]

Love it! You are great. True talent

[galaxytyphoon]

I love this song! We're playing it and a bunch of other fiddle songs in our orchestra

[dogrukodese]

could you please send me the notes of the song you played. please

[fentyjt]

You can buy the book 'Jiggs, Reels and ...' there you can find Drowsy Maggie. But that is the easy version..

[robin3196]

i bet tat man hav a long experience

[chritsineanlou]

i love this song and I love irish fiddle jigs etc. this a great video you play brilliantly!

[fulsomstryk]

It sounds like thundering in the background.

Nice played.

[catinnahat]

It was very windy when this was filmed, and the microphone on the camcorder picked that wind noise up.

[fulsomstryk]

Yeah, I thought that also.

[Gaymz]

love your playing style

[NOSMOJEFF]

Yea I am inspired too thank you !

[hiya7]

iv just learned this tune after hearing you play it'

its fantastic! ' thers not many fiddle players were i live ' so seeing you play gives me inspiration to keep playing and practising'' your a great player' thank you!!

[catinnahat]

Thanks for your comment. I'd just like to say that if you play by ear, it is valuable to listen and play along to many variations of a tune by different musicians. Just for fun, try a Google search for "Drowsy Maggie" and give those a listen too. best regards, Hillar Bergman (catinnahat)

[Hippie6420]

You are very talented, I love your music. :) This is my favorite song.

[tazio2]

You captured the soul of the reel , well done

[jeannemcdaniel]

very cool fiddle tune

[kheelch]

Interesting slide into the E. Where'd you get that?

[catinnahat]

I play by ear and don't read music. Most everything I play evolves as a result of hearing many variations over the course of time.

[RakkaGirl]

Cool ^^