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Boom Clap · Charli XCX

Boom Clap · Charli XCX
EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove B -- Verse 4
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0 / 14 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boom Clap on drums

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

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-24, silence through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-31, silence through bars 32-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-39, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxo-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Boom Clap -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse 4 -- 1 exercise, about 5 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED