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Boom Boom Boom · John Lee Hooker

Boom Boom Boom · John Lee Hooker
EXERCISE 9 OF 15
Groove E
138 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDAS6S4B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boom Boom Boom on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-35, ride through bars 36-68, silence through bars 69-105 and ride through bars 106-177.

The beat

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.

    37
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x--g--x-----x--g--|
SD |------X-----------X--g--|
BD |X--------g--X-----------|
HF |------x-----------x-----|
Boom Boom Boom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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