Song · 1962
ClassicMisirlou
- Artist
- Dick Dale and His Del-Tones
- Released
- 1962
- Guitar
- Dick Dale
- Tremolo picking
What makes the part famous
The techniques to work on to play it, each in one sentence.
Tremolo picking
One note picked very fast, down and up, so it seems never to stop.
The scale of the Misirlou solo
Here the guitar plays mostly solos and riffs. On the recording's isolated guitar, the studio picked out the notes that come back most: they sit in this scale, the box where you look for the phrases by ear and improvise.
- Tonic
- E
- Scale
- E Phrygian dominant
- Position
- Fret 12, or open position
Positions in standard tuning, to play along with the record.
Automatic analysis, checked by hand against the song's known key. No tab here: the scale tells you where to look, your ear finds the phrases.
Analyze your own recording
Record yourself playing it, or upload a version you have the right to use: the studio isolates the guitar and finds the chords, tempo, strumming and fingerings, with a fretboard video and a PDF.
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