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Peruvian Skies · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 4 OF 93
Groove C -- Part C
25 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART F
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AK
PART AO
PART AW
PART BD
BREAK
17 groovesNFAOGBD+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 5
JOIN · 17
LINK · 3
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Peruvian Skies on drums

140 bars, 10:48, at 56 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
10:48
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 3-51, toms through bars 52-53, hi-hat through bars 54-61, ride through bars 62-73, hi-hat through bars 74-81 and snare through bars 82-95, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-76, 78-80 and 108-110, and 3 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Peruvian Skies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 16, 24, 28 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- AO, AK -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Peruvian Skies?

56 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Peruvian Skies hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 10:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 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 Peruvian Skies?

17 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 16, 24, 28 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED