Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams · Green Day

318 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 8:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
318
LENGTH
8:57
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 155-161, 163-175 and 195-197, and 6 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
HOLIDAY / BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS · BAR 155
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 42, 71, 75, 113, 132 and 2 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 193 · LANDS ON BAR 194

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

318 bars across 16 sections: 150 keep time, 8 are fills and 143 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-112.

PART G
PART G
PART M
PART D
PART L
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesQGDMB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams hard to play on drums?

56 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

318 bars, about 8:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 42, 71, 75, 113, 132 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 318 BARS ANALYSED
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