Gimme That Boom · Skindred

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 22-24 and 26-28, and 4 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
GIMME THAT BOOM · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 17, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 8 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 15 sections: 46 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-4.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCFAQH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gimme That Boom?

98 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 Gimme That Boom hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Gimme That Boom?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 17, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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