Prince drum tabs
11 charts, 58-130 BPM. Each one is read from a real score: play it along to the record, slow it down, or take the practice course under it.
MOST PLAYED
- CHARTS
- 11
- TEMPO
- 58-130 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 1,516
- WITH A COURSE
- 7 of 11
- USUAL KEY
- A major
EVERY PRINCE CHART
- Purple Rain58 BPM · 94 BARS · BEGINNER
- When Doves Cry126 BPM · 183 BARS
- I Wanna Be Your Lover117 BPM · 165 BARS
- Raspberry Beret120 BPM · 105 BARS
- Soft And Wet115 BPM · 86 BARS
- Shhh130 BPM · 207 BARS
- Joy In Repetition120 BPM · 147 BARS
- Kiss (good version)111 BPM · 101 BARS
- Take Me With U120 BPM · 68 BARS
- If I Was Your Girlfriend80 BPM · 117 BARS
- Lady Cab Driver123 BPM · 243 BARS
LEARNING PRINCE ON DRUMS
11 Prince drum parts are transcribed here, 1,516 bars of music in total, filed under 80s, funk, pop and soul. Every one of them is a chart read from a real score rather than a tab somebody typed out: the notes are where the score put them, the tempo is the record’s own, and the page plays the recording underneath while you read.
Nothing here asks you to play it at full speed on the first pass. Take any chart down to half tempo, loop the four bars that will not come clean, and bring it back up. 7 of these 11 songs also have a practice course under them: the part broken into the few things actually different about it, one at a time, ending with you playing the whole song against the record.
A good place to start is "Purple Rain" at 58 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Take Me With U" at 68 bars, the shortest. Sheet music, tab, MIDI and MusicXML download from every chart if you would rather read it away from the screen.
QUESTIONS
How many Prince drum tabs are there?
11 Prince drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 7 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are Prince songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 58 to 130 BPM. The slowest is "Purple Rain" at 58 BPM, and the shortest is "Take Me With U" at 68 bars, which makes either a reasonable place to start. Every chart also has a simplified version with the hi-hat pulled back and the fills written as eighths on the snare.
What key are most Prince songs in?
Most often A major, Ab major and Ab minor. The catalogue files them under 80s, funk, pop and soul.