Boom! · System of a Down

86 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23 and 33-47 -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BOOM! · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 48, 64, 66, 70, 72 and 2 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 85-86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 8 sections: 62 keep time, 8 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-47.

PART A
VERSE
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHEAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boom!?

154 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! hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Boom!?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 48, 64, 66, 70, 72 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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