Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams · Green Day

322 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 8:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
322
LENGTH
8:45
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 156-178, 196-229 and 248-253 -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 147 BPM
HOLIDAY / BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS · BAR 157
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 38, 39, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 38-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 179 · LANDS ON BAR 180 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 195 · LANDS ON BAR 196

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

322 bars across 14 sections: 112 keep time, 15 are fills, 161 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 197-229.

PART D
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesPHYLS13+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams?

147 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?

55 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

322 bars, about 8:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 38, 39, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 322 BARS ANALYSED
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