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Miserlou · Dick Dale

Miserlou · Dick Dale
EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 81 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Miserlou on drums

99 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-51, silence through bars 52-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-34, 36 and 38, and 4 more places -- 92% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Miserlou -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Bars 35-99 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Miserlou?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Miserlou hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED