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Boom! · System of a Down

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove C -- Verse
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PART A
VERSE
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHEAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boom! on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-26, ride through bars 27-30, snare through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Boom! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-27 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-61 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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