Pulp Fiction Misirlou
Why Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange recommends it
Music Stack Exchange users link it as a recognizable example of a piece built on the Phrygian Dominant scale and as a model of fast alternate-picking guitar riffing.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2017 to 2019.
What it is
A 2m17s clip of the Misirlou scene from Pulp Fiction, posted on a channel that collects music and movie moments. Misirlou is the Eastern Mediterranean tune made famous as a surf rock guitar piece, and the description gives a history of the melody's travels from the Ottoman Empire to America.
What people said
Recommends user34288 · 2019-01 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Do all songs have to be in a major or minor scale? Can a song have random notes that don't belong to any major or minor scale?”
There's alot of different types of scales, apart from major and minor. For example: you cannot produce the song, Misirlou [this video] in a major or minor scale; you'd have to play it in a special scale called the Phrygian Dominant. And this song, Scarborough Fair, [LINK] is in Dorian. But to go to the essence of your question, every song (for the most part) has a certain scale, basically everything you hear on the radio. There was a study on this on Spotify [LINK] . Where 66.1% of songs accounted for a major scale, and 33.7% were minor. Which comes out to 99.8% either being in a major and minor scale where the rest 0.2% is other scales or modes (which are also scales btw). 0.2% that seems low. m
Cites Joulin Nicolas · 2017-05 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “having trouble with fast alternate picking”
I am having trouble playing fast alternate picking like in the iconic riff from misirlou [this video] or the first lead part in knight of cydonia [LINK] from muse. It seems to me that either my strumming is irregular or my finger don't land at the correct time, resulting in muted notes and approximate rhythm. I also notice that, even though I can play those riff in a somewhat recognizable manner on low strings, It gets even more messy when transposing them onto higher strings. What advice can you give me to get better at it and play those kind of riffs properly and get over the difference between low and high strings ?
Cites Some_Guy · 2018-04 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “What is the Western equivalent scale of Indian Raga Mayamalavagowla?”
I will answer the question in the title, Stinkfoot is right, for other questions (why is this the most common beginning raga taught), it is better to ask them separately. The name we give to the western scale that uses the same notes as the Raga Mayamalavagowla is the double harmonic scale. In C, it looks like this: [LINK] Obviously, a raga is about more than just the notes, so the details of Mayamalavagowla (the order, the importance of the notes, and microtonal inflections) isn't covered by the Double Harmonic Scale which is a term which simply describes the 7 notes that makes the scale (and nothing more). I'm not an expert in this, but I know enough to know that a "raga" includes more inf