Sweet Child O' Mine · Guns N' Roses

182 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74, 102 and 114-127, and 7 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
SWEET CHILD O' MINE · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 40, 72, 88 and 18 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 133 · LANDS ON BAR 134 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 157 · LANDS ON BAR 158

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 12 sections: 132 keep time, 24 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-39.

PART B
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART O
PART S
OUTRO
7 groovesGOKMS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Child O' Mine?

123 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 Sweet Child O' Mine hard to play on drums?

60 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Sweet Child O' Mine?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 40, 72, 88 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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