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Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams · Green Day

EXERCISE 29 OF 52
Join Part D to Part L (bars 115-117)
180 / 318 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART L
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 13
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
318
LENGTH
8:57
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, toms through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-29, ride through bars 30-36 and snare through bars 37-38, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    155
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- Q, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-41 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 113-144 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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