Sweet Child of Mine · Guns 'N' Roses

149 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 37-38 and 65-66, and 12 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SWEET CHILD OF MINE · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 48, 56 and 15 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 125 · LANDS ON BAR 126

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 11 sections: 104 keep time, 21 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-95.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART I
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
9 groovesHFIBL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Child of Mine?

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 of Mine hard to play on drums?

49 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 of Mine?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 48, 56 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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