Respect · Aretha Franklin

68 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13-23, and 10 more places -- 81.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
RESPECT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 34 and 42.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 3 sections: 62 keep time, 3 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-33.

CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Respect?

114 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 Respect hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 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 Respect?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 34 and 42.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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