Boom Clap · Charli XCX

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 10-11 and 19-21, and 4 more places -- 55.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BOOM CLAP · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 9 sections: 45 keep time, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-64.

CHORUS
PART D
VERSE
VERSE 2
BREAK 2
VERSE 3
BREAK 3
VERSE 4
6 groovesBCS8DS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boom Clap?

92 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 Boom Clap hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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