Sweet Child O' Mine (Standard Tuning) · Guns N' Roses

182 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 5:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-42, 45-46 and 73-74, and 14 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
SWEET CHILD O' MINE (STANDARD TUNING) · BAR 116
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 40, 72, 88 and 17 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 133 · LANDS ON BAR 134 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 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 10 sections: 133 keep time, 23 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-127.

PART B
PART K
PART G
PART K
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMGKRB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Child O' Mine (Standard Tuning)?

127 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 (Standard Tuning) 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 (Standard Tuning)?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 40, 72, 88 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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