Sweet Child O' Mine
Guns N' Roses · 1987
Cover-band staple with dynamic build and a half-time outro groove.
- Artist
- Guns N' Roses
- Year
- 1987
- Genre
- rock
- Drummer
- Steven Adler
- Tempo
- 122 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- straight 8ths with half-time bridge
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
74bpm
Building
98bpm
Target
122bpm
The feel
A straight 8ths with half-time bridge in 4/4 around 122 BPM. It moves — stay relaxed in the hands so you don't tense up and rush.
What to watch
- •Feel the backbeat on beat 3. Resist collapsing it into a straight-time groove.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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