Raspberry Beret · Prince

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-105 -- 95.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
RASPBERRY BERET · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 2 sections: 104 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-105.

OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Raspberry Beret?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Raspberry Beret hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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