Drowsy Maggie

This tune is Drowsy Maggie. It is an old Irish tune, and an extremely popular one. Unfortunately so popular that it is played to bleedin' DEATH by people that play the violin in some genre (usually classical), and think, therefore, that they can also play Irish diddley music, by association as it were. So they open some book of "Irish Fiddle Peices - grade 3 and up", arranged for violin and piano or some other trash, and almost invariably end up strangling this tune, cos it's so damn popular. I put up this video because try as I might, I could not find any straight, reasonably good recordings of it anywhere.

Although I must admit, I'm not playing it that well myself here. It's a bit fast, and a bit too swung for my liking. I was going to take another video, but my camera ran out of battery.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Drowsy
• Maggie
• Irish
• fiddle
• reel

[VictoriaFiddlers]

pure crap

[Joe1729]

@VictoriaFiddlers LOL you are funny. Really making the Victoria Fiddle Society sound good!

Any chance that you might post a video of yourself playing something?

[53Slimman]

You blew it. Must be your bad attitude! Nice hair by the way. What do you call that? Retro hippie wanna be? Is that your mothers room by the way?

[Joe1729]

@53Slimman LOL I love Youtube flaming! MOAR PLZ

[Joe1729]

@mcorr629 Well boo hoo.

[fastway99]

A little fast? Dude I think it's spot on. You sound like the Chieftains. They play it the same way. There are a couple of tempo stumbles but for the most part I think it sounds great! I could care less about your attitude or what you look like. It's what sounds right that counts.

[HiwatariSama]

@53Slimman Hey, dude, we should all stay polite, or not :/?

[MrBigDude26]

i am more of a viola person myself, but it was good none the less

[MichelleSeven]

AMazing =D

[SurfThrashGuitar]

@Joe1729 well either way, great playing man, I misread a comment and mistook it. I apologize

[Joe1729]

@SurfThrashGuitar ?? Sorry if you can't take a joke (which is what it was intended as), I didn't insult you or anything.

[SurfThrashGuitar]

@Joe1729 no, I removed it, because Im sorry I even stuck up for you now

[Joe1729]

@SurfThrashGuitar Dude, did you just call me a Scotsman?