Sweet Child O' Mine · Scream Of Nation

185 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-46, 49-50 and 77-78, and 14 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SWEET CHILD O' MINE · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 44, 60, 76 and 15 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 137 · LANDS ON BAR 138 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 161 · LANDS ON BAR 162

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 15 sections: 138 keep time, 21 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-155.

PART I
PART N
PART I
PART N
CHORUS
OUTRO
11 groovesLINAB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Child O' Mine?

128 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?

54 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 44, 60, 76 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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