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Boulevard Of Broken Dreams · Green Day

EXERCISE 18 OF 26
Join Part G to Break (bars 64-66)
76 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, BREAK
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART G
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesDBGS1S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boulevard Of Broken Dreams on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-44, snare through bars 45-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 45-51 and 57-59, and 3 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    64
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 26, 44, 56, 61, 62 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 64-90 -- 8 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Boulevard Of Broken Dreams?

84 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?

47 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Of Broken Dreams?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 26, 44, 56, 61, 62 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED