Boulevard Of Broken Dreams · Green Day

24 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 1:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
24
LENGTH
1:12
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11 and 21-23 -- 58.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 20.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

24 bars across 3 sections: 19 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boulevard Of Broken Dreams?

80 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 Of Broken Dreams hard to play on drums?

34 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

24 bars, about 1:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Boulevard Of Broken Dreams?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 20.

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