← SONGS

Misirlou · Dick Dale

Misirlou · Dick Dale
EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 86 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBS5CS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Misirlou on drums

104 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 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
104
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-51, silence through bars 52-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-104.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Misirlou -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED