EPIC RIFFS | World's Most Iconic Riff - (I played it wrong) 

hahahahahaahahaha this comment is hilarious coz it's true! hahahaha

Amazing how hard it is for many people to even get that right

OMG your comment threw me into a coughing fit I was laughing so hard.

I just clapped on my stomach……

I had a similar thought, but quickly realised I'd overestimated my abilities...

Wooww great, any chance we get to hear that interview?

I do have it on a thumb drive but it is in storage right now...

Dick Dale also made Leo Fender deaf in one of his ears.

yes sir , and i guess i remember Leo said that if an Strat could survive Dick Dale`s playing it would survive any player in the world ,so he had to do the strat stronger 🙊🙊🙊 I think also Leo helped him a lot when DD was a beginner , quite a nice history 😃👍

@@BrianWilson-cf4re Awesome that you were able to meet the man in person! Thank you for sharing.

I was fortunate enough to see and meet him in San Antonio, Texas.a small bar ,a Sunday night.about 60 people.i thought LEMMY WAS LOUD!!!! it was an honor.very nice and informative man. Legend

I knew Mr. Mansour well enough to have his personal phone number, and always had tickets waiting for me when he came to my town. That being said, thank you for this video. He was a very interesting man in his music talents, personal life, and how he lived right to the end. I’m a “Dickhead”.

He even made you clap in plural!

@@unduloid Dang 'em

We all did.

Clapping like Herman Munster over here!!

I snorted and said nah, busy typing something as I watch this... and then proceeded to do so anyways cuz it just needed to be done =)

Saz players in Turkey too. There's almost no note they don't embellish. And not just single hammer-on / pull-offs, double even triple. That's probably why bouzuki and saz players instantly start shredding when they take up the guitar.

@@mertsoyluoglu9791 very well said my friend!

He was legendary for destroying equipment. Fender would send him amps which he would then break. Finally a Fender rep came to a show and afterwards said "Okay. NOW I get what you need."

Well, it is a Greek song 😉

Middle Eastern music as well. I use this scale a lot. I mix traditional middle eastern instruments and music with hard rock and sometimes industrial music for my songs. This scale, if played correctly, can be erotic or sensual. It brings a beautiful dissonance, waiting to be resolved. Every guitarist need this scale in their arsenal for both soloing and writing. PS, If you are a guitarist and don’t know who Dick Dale is you need to search his music out, sit back and learn from the master.

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing it.

Wonderful!

Good grief! What are the odds? 😄

Saw him 5-6 times when he came through Houston. Always brought earplugs😄

Liquid Joe's was such a great place to see shows. Great to see that it's still going.

It is not Bhairavi but Bhairav, a completely different raga. The scale of Bhairavi has a flat 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th while the scale of Bhairav only has a flattened 2nd and 6th, namely double harmonic.

@@mukhisunil okay dude...

@@bobsbigboy_ don’t like specificity?

​@@mukhisunilyea it sounds like Mayamalavagowla

This was not written by Dick Dale … This song is a 1927 song written by a Greek rebeti - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LW6qGy3RtwY.html

Definitely one of the most unsung guitar heroes. He was a badass. Some distortion, humbuckers, and palm muting and it’s heavy metal 🤣 🤘

@@AndreasAtSea a versão original é um lixo ... Dick Dale reinventou a música

@@Yeowtch both versions are sick af

Yeah man me too! Lol

Me with almost any keyboard player. I finally just started saying I play rhythm piano. Naturally no one gets the joke so I also have a quick explainer locked & loaded. 😝

There is playing a song then playing a song the way the original artist plays it. David is great at showcasing those little intricacies.

Me after "I will never know how to play the guitar"

So i tried learning a handstyle heavy (pretty easy song btw, i know how to play it now) song, it's super calm and slow, but a little full of variations and it just happens to be that i started learning it like 3 months ago and learned exactly a half of it, first half like my toes i know And after just sitting at it extra 10 mins i figured exactly how and why i failed it. Pretty funny how easy songs feel after you learn them fully, taht's why i try to not indulge myself in awesome riffs and allathath, and try to learn songs from start to finish, at least a more easy variation The Song is На Кухне by Кино by the way, if anyone's wondering

I clicked on the comments to look for this. I saw him at The Laboratory in San Antonio, TX and asked about the strings and he told me the sizes. I'm a jazz guitar player and my high E string is a relatively heavy 12 so I was shocked when he told me his is a 16.

Ooof.

Holy crap. That’s insane.

Man his strings were thicc

@@es330td Musicians & pilots. Often a bit shy but get -them- us talking and -they- we won't shut up. 😎

Why did seeing his poor living conditions make you so happy

Misirlou IS a Middle Eastern folk song, a Greek song. The translation is "Egyptian woman".

@@quintalozzo most surf rock uses the byzentine scale which gives that "middle eastern sound".

gotta love the byzantine scale

@@quintalozzo Nobody knows the origin for sure, it might be Turkish or Egyptian

@@YavuzErol not the point. It's that Misirlou is the Greek name and it was by far the most famous version. Dale could have done it to just about any song from any culture in that region and get the same result. Like the Turkish song Rampi Rampi would be perfect

Yes it is! And everytime you play it someone will do the Pulp Fiction dance moves.

@@elrincondelaguitarra3050 What ABOUT the BATTUTSI?

Working in a guitar shop at this time taught me well that many people tried, but few succeeded in catching that wave. It became the Stairway of my life for a while. I still don't play it well enough.

@@MrSmiley1964 I did learn 'Misirlou' from a guitar transcription on Total Guitar Magazine. Had to start slow with a metronome on 60bpm and work it up to speed little by little. It took some time, but it was well worth the effort! This tune is a sure showstopper if you master it.

it’s actually very easy

It's actually a cover of a cover of a cover.

Link?

@@vovahimself ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LW6qGy3RtwY.html I don't know how reliable the source of this is or if it's even the original song, but it's a start

@@kamikaze4172 seeing it was written by a Greek from a city that was multicultural(Greek-Turkish) back in the day, the lyrics being about a Christian mans love for a Muslim girl, the name of the song meaning "Egyptian" in Turkish, then adopted to Western Music and becoming the most iconic riff ever, i love the trivia behind the song.

Well that's all what's left to excite them to break down and the sound. Everything else is boring since it's mastered.

​@@someoneonyoutube1993 nothing is "mastered" even the people that make the original guitar to any song I guarantee they wanted more to add to it and they ended up with what they considered close to what they truly wanted.

snap

It's one of the easiest to learn by skipping ornamentations. But easily one of the most impressive and impressionable songs

I highly doubt this version of the origin story. The song is known throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, and the only Greek community this song is seriously attributed to is the Greek community in Istanbul, not Athens. And it's Turkish Greek artists that made the first recording in the USA in 1920s. However, the simplicity of the melody - ie the fact that it's a simple up and down the Hicazkar scale, a very common makam throughout the middle East, and that every middle Eastern ex-Ottoman country claims it to be their own folk song (apart from oddly the Balkan ones, which also doesn't work too well towards the claim of Greece origin), both suggest it's probably an old folk standard from Ottoman times.

@@gearwatcher Recording songs wasnt a thing that people cared about in Greece in the early 1900's until the late 20's - early 30's,simply because music like this was played in places with "bad" reputation and people playing this kind of music (together with rembetika, zeimbekika etc) were acting almost like gangsta rappers in the early 1990s performing mostly in close groups with no easy access to outsider. The confusion that people have is between "Tetos Dimetriadis" a Greek from Instanbul that was an immigrant to the USA and "Patrinos" a Greek from Smyrna that after the disaster of Smyrna and the massacre of Greek civilians by the Turks back in 1922, was relocated to Athens (like most Greeks in Smyrna that survived from the massacre, like my own grandfather). Some people think that since Dimetriadis recorded it in the USA, he is the one that composed it. Thats not the case. Patrinos, performed it in 1927 a few years before Dimetriadis recorded it and it is thought that he wrote the lyrics, but even he is not considered the composer by most although he has the credits! Usually the composer to songs like this before 1930, was unknown, mostly because the composition was done from all the members of a band and the leader was taking the credits (just like Patrinos did back then). There is a rumor that they could be influenced up to a point by an older Egyptian instrumental from the early 1900's but cant be confirmed So this song, as we know it, was composed in Athens Greece and was called "Misirlou". It was about a forbidden love with an Egyptian girl. Word Misirlou comes from the Turkish word Mısırlı meaning "Egyptian" that is actually an arabic word (Misir) and that is why the song has a few other arabic words in the lyrics. It was a slow song and on the first version it is said that because Patrinos had a heavy accent, he was singing "Mousourlou". It is also said that Patrinos recorded it in Athens a year before the song was recorded in the USA but cant be confirmed. In 1941 another Greek immigrant in the USA (Nick Roumbanis) recorded an oriental version without lyrics (faster with a fusion of oriental and some Jazzy elements). That version is the one that became popular in the middle east, is the version that actually influenced Dick Dale and is the version that confused people thinking that its probably a traditional middle eastern song. Many versions were recorded after that (mostly by Greek artists and some Arab artists) until Dick Dale recorded the instrumental version we all know today. I think in Greece, the most popular version back then (again a slow version similar to the 1927 version) was the one from Sofia Vembo in 1947 (a very famous female singer). History was way to complicated back then all over Europe and the middle East so it is difficult to trace it properly.. Lyrics by Patrinos (most probably) roughly translated by me (with the same strange syntax that the Greek lyrics have): My Misirlou, your sweet look Α flame has ignited in my heart. Ah, ya habibi, ah, ya leleli, ah, Your two lips are dripping honey, ah. Ah, Misirlou, magical, elven beauty. I will go crazy, I do not suffer anymore. Ah, I will steal you from Arabia. My crazy black-eyed Misirlou, My life changes with a kiss. Ah, ya habibi, one little kiss, ah From your sweet little mouth, ah.

@@stathiss.2301 You weave a nice narrative but provide very little to substantiate it. Wikipedia says this: "The folk song has origins in the Eastern Mediterranean region of the Ottoman Empire, but the original author of the song is not known. There is evidence that the folk song was known to Arabic musicians, Greek rebetiko musicians and Jewish klezmer musicians by the 1920s." Given how much shit stir any touchy-feely Ottoman zone nationalism subject usually causes, if there was any compelling evidence for your argument it would be cemented there. Apparently the best they could settle on is "author unknown, song known to various Ottoman musicians before the 20s". You can also look at the Wiki talk page and sources to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Lyrics schmirics, the ONLY important aspect of this song is melody. Or better put, lack of it. It's a simple up/down a VERY POPULAR SCALE. To suggest that this simple up/down of a makam, in the tradition where students learn scales by doing EXACTLY THAT is somehow authored in 1920s is ludicrous.

@@gearwatcher So Wikipedia is your source of reference? A very "serious" source.. then If that is the case why dont you consult the Greek version of wikipedia that the information is TOTALLY different? You see, wikipedia is not a serious source and the fact that two pages for the SAME thing has different information, proves it. What about if a middle eastern guy goes and edit the page and write "The song has origins in XXX country", will that make it a fact?. Funny thing is that as a Greek, I never said that the song wasnt influenced from other songs but it was Egyptian songs not middle eastern. Its not a contest, after all the info that you propose is correct, says about Greek composers, so If my problem was proving that Greeks wrote the song I wouldnt mind if they where Greeks in Turkey (like my Grandfather was) or in any other country, but I am saying the opposite thing, that the song was most probably was influenced (not written, influenced) byt EGYPTIAN artists, not Greeks. Finally, Let me know as a Greek a little more about Greek songs than a foreign guy in wikipedia.

@@gearwatcher You seriously quote Wikipedia as a source? What a joke... You know that anyone can write there, right? If I go now and write sth, the next minute I can quote myself as "what Wikipedia writes"....

Well i could have played it correctly, because i heard these embalishments, i just lack the technical ability to pull it of at full speed 😂

the reality is most riffs are played incorrectly by the vast majority of players...we all play what we think sounds correct (close enough) and others seem to agree with us because we all seem to miss the musical embellishments and focus on the obvious.

@@doim1676 same

If you want to play it "correctly", turn your guitar upside-down.

@@doim1676 Exactly, you also have to hammer on it in order to pull it off! 😉

My guitar teacher LOVED the Ventures.

Mind blown. Tell me what you're listening to right now

so that's the name "Misirli" of Turkish origins lol.

Thanks- my buddy who is a musician from Iraq mentioned that this song used Hijazkar, but I never got more than what the scale was- appreciate the insight about how it might be thought of.

I didn't understand one single word of this.

Middle Eastern melodies originate in Greece and not the other way around. Why does no one know that? Greeks did not use the western scale until recently.

And Bhairav in classical Indian

Oh man some double bass drumming would fit right in.

400th like 🤣

Cool

It's a very ordinary and common scale, Hijazkiar scale. It's one of the first you'll learn in Greece or the middle east. Also called Phrygian dominant in the ancient world.

I'm not from the eastern Mediterranean but eastern mode has always sounded so awesome to me. I use eastern mode a lot

Not many people knew that Dick Dale was of Lebanese descent. Last name was Mansour.

@@ACyoutube46 Phrygian dominant is very similar but little different, DHM has major 7th, whether Phrygian dominant has minor 7th.

Butterfly effect 😀

Especially when the origin has absolutely nothing to do with surfing

Pat Finnerty is the best.

@@DapperHesher As soon as the word 'augmented' came out of Paul's mouth I instantly heard Pat's 'BEATO' in my head

Wow! Wish I could've seen that. 🤪

He wasn’t called a “showman” by Leo Fender for nothing!

I saw him up close at the Coach House in OC and he didn't do that

@@bouzoukiman5000 last time I saw him he did it was back in 2008? Iowa City at Gabe's

Brussels affair version on the latest goats head soup super deluxe version is beyond great. The way Charlie watts takes the lead in that song really shows his greatness

extrem riot! loved him live in a tiny club 2006ish

Almost. He played a left handed strat left handed. But his strings were set up like a right handed guitar. So it is as if he were playing a right handed guitar upside down. Like Hendrix but without the annoyance of the electronics in the way and the cut aways like they should be.

@@lgv3051 I'm almost certain he played a right-handed guitar due to the lack of availability of left handed guitars and just played it upside down

Saw an interview with Dick on this a while back. He started on a right handed guitar and later often played a left handed guitar with the strings the wrong way round.

@@Louisthesaxman1 Yes, I remember seeing an interview with Leo Fender talking about introducing the Strat to Dick. He turned it around and played it left handed and Leo thought to himself something along the lines of "well I didn't think that through".

@@shoe5895 That may be how he first learned guitar, but, regardless of which hand guitar he played, the strings were upside down. Hendrix played a right handed guitar, upside down, but the strings were "right side up". Eric Gales plays with his strings like Dick.

Yeah, his videos are organized very good

@@fatkitty4207 Yes, he also puts excerpts from the music he is referring to, I think this is very good, he has several excellent points.

@@antonyferreira5285 yeah. It also looks like a movie. Maybe because of the ambient in the room idk. It is just 👌

Great audio, great video, great beard

Agree it's a great lesson, as all of Paul's lessons are. But as regards the riff being the world's most iconic riff that's a matter of personal choice, for me any Sabbath riff blows stuff like this clean out of the water and seem incredibly tame and underwhelming, and personally Floyd material played by David Gilmour also makes this kind of stuff seem very basic. Personal choice as with all music.

@@SpeedKingHighwayStar be grateful he didn’t know about the dance from Pulp Fiction. This song was popular then and I had a teacher who had an album of surf music. It was all the exact same tremolo picking and boring. It made me dislike the sound of strats for a brief moment. It sounds like an old alarm clock radio with no low end. The production is like “And Justice for All” where bass is an after thought. I didn’t know Lars produced this stuff he must be older than he looks.

@@SpeedKingHighwayStar coming from somebody who covered a lot of Sabbath songs in a band- it’s a lot more fun to play by yourself. Playing paranoid over and over gets boring as hell. It’s fun the first 200 times but will where out it’s welcome a lot of the early songs are almost the same riff the entire song. It’s better when they play it. I dunno what it is but only Tony Iommi and Zakk Wylde also to some extent keep the energy level up playing those riffs over and over.