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Studio

Song · 1987

Classic

Sweet Child O' Mine

Artist
Guns N' Roses
Released
1987
Guitar
Slash
  • Intro
  • Solo

What makes the part famous

The techniques to work on to play it, each in one sentence.

  • Intro

    The opening bars, played by the guitar alone or nearly: they announce the song.

  • Solo

    The passage where the guitar steps forward and sings on its own, phrase after phrase.

Sweet Child O' Mine chords

What the studio found on the isolated guitar of the recording: the key and the chords, with fingerings that flow from one to the next.

Key
D♭ major
Chords
Db · B · Gb · Ebm · Ab

Here the guitar mostly plays solos and riffs: these chords are the ones its lines outline, enough to back it or improvise over it.

The progressions that come back

    1. Db
    2. B
    3. Gb
    1. Db
    2. Ab
    3. B

The chords and their fingerings

  • Db
    D♭ majorI · Tonic9fr1342
  • B
    B majorbVII · borrowed7fr1342
  • Gb
    G♭ majorIV · Subdominant9fr×1234
  • Ebm
    E♭ minorii · Subdominant11fr134
  • Ab
    A♭ majorV · Dominant8fr1432

Automatic analysis: it can get a chord wrong, and your ear has the last word.

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