Sweet Child O' Mine Guitar tab video
Guns 'n Roses
Make your own Sweet Child O' Mine tab video, freeNo editing. No card. 10 minutes free.- Instrument
- Guitar
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Tuning
- D# G# C# F# A# D#
- Tempo
- 120 BPM
About this riff
The intro is built around a two-bar pattern that repeats from three different starting notes, so the challenge is less about speed than about keeping track of those shifting positions cleanly. It's a great string-skipping and alternate-picking study, since the melody jumps across non-adjacent strings and rewards efficient, short pick strokes. Learning it also trains your ear for phrasing within a minor-scale framework, and the tab's half-step-down tuning (D#/Eb standard) matches the record exactly.
Did you know?
For years the riff was rumored to be a warm-up finger exercise, but Slash has since debunked that story, saying it wasn't a warm-up at all and that he simply came up with it messing around at the house where Guns N' Roses lived around 1986. He recalled putting notes together to find a melody, after which Izzy Stradlin added chords behind it and Axl Rose heard it and the song grew from there.
FAQ
Is this the real audio?
The audio is rendered from a high-quality SoundFont (FluidR3), so it plays for real. It is not the original master recording.
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