Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day · Jokker

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.

RockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 45-47, and 6 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS - GREEN DAY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 22, 26, 44, 48, 56 and 9 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 60-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-43.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
4 groovesDBS1S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day?

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 - Green Day hard to play on drums?

36 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 18 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 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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 - Green Day?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 22, 26, 44, 48, 56 and 9 more.

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