Blame It On The Boom Boom · Black Stone Cherry

90 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20, and 17 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BLAME IT ON THE BOOM BOOM · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 15, 26, 27, 41, 52 and 5 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 12 sections: 48 keep time, 11 are fills, 14 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-78.

PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHFBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blame It On The Boom Boom?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Blame It On The Boom Boom hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blame It On The Boom Boom?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 15, 26, 27, 41, 52 and 5 more.

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