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Blame It On The Boom Boom · Black Stone Cherry

EXERCISE 19 OF 29
Join Part F to Chorus 2 (bars 27-29)
79 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blame It On The Boom Boom on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 2-15, snare through bars 16-23, hi-hat through bars 24-25, toms through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-41 and snare through bars 42-49, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Blame It On The Boom Boom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- H, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-19 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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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