Boom Boom Boom · John Lee Hooker

177 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 44-50 and 52-58, and 10 more places -- 59.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BOOM BOOM BOOM · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 35, 51 and 105.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 7 sections: 148 keep time, 3 are fills and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-177.

PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDAS6S4B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boom Boom Boom?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Boom Boom Boom hard to play on drums?

62 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Boom Boom Boom?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 35, 51 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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