 guys so let's learn the famous sweet child of mine by guns and roses the entire songs on D major you could possibly say that it's like a D Mixolydian because it has the seven flat so that's D E F sharp G A B C D right it's not the C sharp which you would get because there's a lot of the C major chord in the scale so let's get started it's basically a lot of chord progressions actually four it's not that much but let's figure that out and at the end I'll also tell you the guitar hook which you can play on the piano so the first part of the song is that guitar lead so I'll teach you that later stick around and let's just first look at the chords this happens throughout the guitar hook throughout the verse section and the pattern I'm applying for pretty much the entire song on the piano is what I've written down here which is one and two and three and four and and this is like the snare drum hit which is optional so one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four okay so let's see how it again works on the piano also just check out how I'm playing the C chord it's like C major but I'm adding the nine which is the D here right so let's do that again this goes on play the roots of the chord in the left hand G D and then the chorus the entire chorus and then whenever the guitarist plays the hook which is like on like the first solo before the actual solo I think they're like four guitar solos or something in this song wow that's a lot of solos anyway so you'll have the first guitar solo which is on the same chords as the verse which is D C G D which are the same chords you also play that hook so for the first guitar solo where he goes C G and then I think that goes back to the verse then again you do oh sweet child of mine and then the same hook happens again right okay and then the solo gets a bit heavier right where he goes those chords are four times and you can find that here so this is like the second or the heavy solo before the next heavy solo where it gets really heavy so that's E minor C major B seventh A minor and it goes on down to a minor see how it is on the piano B7 this is how I'm playing B7 and then it gets really heavy which is before the bridge which is like that where do we go part which is going to come up next so the heavy guitar solo and the where do we go chords are identical because it takes it to the bridge where that where do we go goes on and on right for the entire song at least actually yeah till the end isn't it so the guitar solo going heavy again let's look at the chords E minor G major A major that's C D G E minor G E D G C C D G C for two counts D for one count and G for one count let's do that again and also on the piano since the song doesn't really have piano you can perhaps instead of playing full chords you can even play whenever things get heavier you could just play the power chord the power chord removes the third from the triad makes things sound a lot thicker and a lot heavier as we as we think so I'm playing full chords in my right hand and if you can you can instead of the octave or along with the octave you can also add the perfect fifth so for E it'll be this E D E G major will be G D G for A it'll be A E A C fifth D G these the same chord progression carries on to the where do we go part but where do we go doesn't start that heavy to begin with it where do we go where do we go where do we go now where do we go then it builds up right so how did I go from the the choppy part to the build up so with a choppy part you can just do short staccato hit at one one and two and three and four where do we go staccato for the first three chords right build it up that the very is I think the whole band plays that triplet lick which I've written down here somewhere at that heavy part it goes to that triplet lick which is the word is now if I'm not mistake the very last time he goes so that's the outro which I've written here that's E minor and the drummer does his fancy crash cymbals and you're pretty much done right so it's an interesting song to play on the piano primarily because I guess it doesn't have the piano let's conclude the lesson by just looking at that guitar hook which I which I played at the beginning right let's see if we can also do that on the piano so the guitar hook I've written here so just follow the notes in the tutorial but anyway so let's look at it each lick or each line is played into two as I've mentioned here right so let's see how that goes that's the octave that's line one and I'm doing it with the pedal do follow the piano picture for the pedal movements which I'm doing so otherwise it'll sound choppy you can also flip some fingers around I'll just do it slow then coming to line two very similar to line one right it's just the D was there in line one and then for line two it's just a move to an E so let's just do line line one and line two okay now line three which is G D H so it's essentially just the first notes changing so that's line three for you and then come back to line four which is exactly the same as line one isn't it the whole thing again with the base and then the same thing repeats again but then line four instead of playing this one we just do the last time line which I wrote which is very simple so that is like a pedal it keeps repeating right the last D so DC G D at the last D chord you play the base D and in between all these high notes is just a pedal A let's try and look at the whole lick the whole hook sorry e there and see here let's do that again see in the left hand now G in the left hand back to the D and repeat that so that's basically the guitar hook which you could play on the piano if you if you need to or if you can or if you want to otherwise you can just play the chords I guess right so this is sweet child of mine by guns and roses it's an amazing song and as a piano player I hope you can have some fun with it because there are not too many rules to follow except for that rhythmic phrasing where you 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 4 is the snare which is optional so lot of chord progressions very interesting it's on like a mixolydian sound which is a flat 7 of the major scale very popular in in rock music in general to have the flat 7 happen right very inspired from the Beatles going all the way down to everyone right and the song has a lot of dynamics doesn't it it gets really really heavy at the end and it it's like a nice rock groovy rock song in the beginning it gets really heavy in the end right so hope you guys have some fun playing this track cheers