Boulevard · Jackson Browne

119 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-10 and 12-15, and 11 more places -- 65% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BOULEVARD · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 6, 7, 23, 25, 31 and 10 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 5 sections: 94 keep time, 16 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-110.

CHORUS
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCRAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boulevard?

140 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 Boulevard hard to play on drums?

50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Boulevard?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 6, 7, 23, 25, 31 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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