WLM - Sweet Child O' Mine · Ross Carnes

75 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-40, 43-44 and 47-56, and 2 more places -- 65.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
WLM - SWEET CHILD O' MINE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 71 and 72.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 4 sections: 49 keep time, 2 are fills, 9 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-64.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDS4S1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is WLM - Sweet Child O' Mine?

126 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 WLM - Sweet Child O' Mine hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in WLM - Sweet Child O' Mine?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 71 and 72.

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