← SONGS

Sweet Child of Mine · Guns 'N' Roses

EXERCISE 20 OF 43
Groove K
112 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Child of Mine on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|
RD |--x-x-----x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Sweet Child of Mine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 48, 56 and 15 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 -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-48 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-78 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 110-122 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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