Misirlou · Dick Dale

104 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Rock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-34, 36 and 38, and 3 more places -- 92.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 172 BPM
MISIRLOU · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 41.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 6 sections: 90 keep time, 1 is a fill and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-104.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBS5CS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Misirlou?

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 Misirlou 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?

104 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Misirlou?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 41.

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