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Boulevard · Jackson Browne

EXERCISE 12 OF 32
Groove J
89 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCRAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boulevard on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-48, toms through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-81, toms through bars 82-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-111, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Boulevard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 75-115 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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