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Boom, Like That · Mark Knopfler

EXERCISE 7 OF 10
Fill at bar 100 (a small one)
191 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boom, Like That on drums

192 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 8:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
8:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-22 and 25-31, and 10 more places -- 91.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-xxxxx-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Boom, Like That -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 32, 40, 51 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Boom, Like That?

88 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, Like That hard to play on drums?

61 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 8:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 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 Boom, Like That?

3 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 32, 40, 51 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED