It is 1999, you have frosted tips, and a boat full of extremely enthusiastic Dutch people is telling you exactly what they want (want, want). The Vengaboys' "Boom Boom Boom Boom" is the kind of Eurodance earworm that moves into your skull and refuses to pay rent — so naturally I evicted the vocalist and handed the whole thing to one guitar.
This 1:37 clip is a solo guitar arrangement of Boom Boom Boom Boom: the vocal hook and the melody squeezed onto six strings, chords and all. No boat, no glowsticks, no fog machine — just one instrument cheerfully doing the job of an entire late-90s club.
How the four-chord party trick works
Strip away the thumping bass drum and "Boom Boom Boom Boom" stands on the most famous scaffold in pop: I–V–vi–IV. In C that is C–G–Am–F — the same four chords powering roughly half the songs you have ever danced to. It opens bright and major, dips into the relative minor (Am) for a flicker of longing, then leans on F to shove you straight back to the top: an infinite loop of good feelings. Learn these four shapes and you have not just learned one Eurodance hit; you have quietly unlocked an enormous slice of the pop songbook.
Turning it into a solo version is a chord-melody exercise: the sung tune sits on the top string while the chord shapes hum underneath, so one guitar plays both the singer and the band at once. The useful takeaway is to voice each chord so its highest note IS the melody note you need — a little planning up front, and suddenly six strings sound like a whole dancefloor. If you want the deep dive, my lesson on chord melody unpacks exactly this.
Yes, I poured this much music theory into a song literally called Boom Boom Boom Boom. If that is your idea of a good time, the full tab and Guitar Pro file are waiting on my Patreon.