Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (short version) · Greenday

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 2:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 35-37 and 42, and 1 more place -- 44.9% 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 (SHORT VERSION) · BAR 42
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 34, 39, 40, 41, 43 and 1 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 39-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 55
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 6 sections: 36 keep time, 7 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-17.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1FFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (short version)?

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 (short version) hard to play on drums?

38 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 (short version)?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 34, 39, 40, 41, 43 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 55 BARS ANALYSED
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