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

EXERCISE 13 OF 44
Groove J
137 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Child O' Mine (Standard Tuning) on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40 and ride through bars 41-56, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    116
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|
RD |--g-x---x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Sweet Child O' Mine (Standard Tuning) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- M, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-103 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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