Sweet Child O Mine vG by Guns And Roses · Misc Covers

181 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:48
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 41-42, 45-46 and 73-74, and 14 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SWEET CHILD O MINE VG BY GUNS AND ROSES · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 40, 56, 72 and 18 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 133 · LANDS ON BAR 134 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 157-161 · LANDS ON BAR 162 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 11 sections: 134 keep time, 24 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-127.

PART I
PART N
PART I
PART N
CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO
8 groovesLINQB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Child O Mine vG by Guns And Roses?

125 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 vG by Guns And Roses 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 vG by Guns And Roses?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 40, 56, 72 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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