Windmill Isle (day) · Sonic Unleashed

248 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-24 and 33-39, and 11 more places -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
WINDMILL ISLE (DAY) · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 56, 76, 128 and 4 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 21 sections: 207 keep time, 10 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-55.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART K
6 groovesCKEIL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Windmill Isle (day)?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Windmill Isle (day) hard to play on drums?

49 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Windmill Isle (day)?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 56, 76, 128 and 4 more.

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