Boulevard of Broken Dreams (clean) · Green Day

179 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-27, 35 and 53-55, and 3 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS (CLEAN) · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 138.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 14 sections: 60 keep time, 2 are fills, 84 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesECDMS13+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boulevard of Broken Dreams (clean)?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Boulevard of Broken Dreams (clean) hard to play on drums?

35 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Boulevard of Broken Dreams (clean)?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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