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WLM - Sweet Child O' Mine · Ross Carnes

EXERCISE 4 OF 9
Groove E
44 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDS4S1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play WLM - Sweet Child O' Mine on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, toms through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-44 and toms through bars 45-46, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
WLM - Sweet Child O' Mine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED