Sweet Child O Mine Tabs

If you're a guitar player and a fan of Guns and Roses, your search for Sweet Child O Mine tabs is over. LoveToKnow Guitar is committed to helping guitarists find the tools they need to develop their skills as musicians and feed their love of music. When it comes to Guns and Roses, no discussion of the band is complete without mentioning Sweet Child O Mine. The song's blockbuster popularity and instantly recognizable guitar riff propelled the band to superstardom in the late 1980s. The information below will provide some historical information of this classic song and will steer you in the right direction towards finding excellent Sweet Child O Mine tabs.

Sweet Child O Mine was the most successful single from Guns and Roses' debut album Appetite For Destruction. The song spent several weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1988 and launched the album to the number one position as well. In the summer of 1988, you would have been hard pressed to listen to any rock station in America for more than ten minutes and not hear Sweet Child O Mine.

The late 1980s were the heavy metal and hard rock era of popular music, and there was no bigger band in the world during this time than Guns and Roses. Heavy metal is a genre famous for power ballads (melodic songs that start out gently and eventually rock out) and Sweet Child O Mine is the quintessential power ballad. The song starts off as a moody and elegant ballad, but quickly erupts with the violent hard edge that defined the band's rock and roll attitude. Because power ballads were more palatable to the less hard core heavy metal fans, they were often an essential part of the marketing of albums during this era. Sweet Child O was responsible for bringing the music of Guns and Roses to a wider mainstream audience.

Sweet Child's most famous components are the beautifully melodic opening riff and the legendary tone of Slash's Les Paul guitar. Legend has it that Slash began playing the riff at a rehearsal as a joke, but lead singer Axl Rose and rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin found the lick compelling enough to encourage him to keep playing it. A short while later, the version the world knows and loves was completed. An edited version of the song that greatly truncated Slash's solo was sent to radio stations, but the definitive version is the album track that contains every second of Slash's incredible playing.

• Ultimate Guitar – Ultimate Guitar has a fantastic tab for this song that includes the intro, all verses, choruses, the solo, and even chord charts. One nice feature of Ultimate Guitar is the auto scroll button. If you click this button on the top right of their tab pages, the page will slowly scroll down so you can play along with the record without having to stop repeatedly and scroll you browser window down by hand. Good thinking on the part of Ultimate Guitar on this one.

• Snake Pit.org – Snake Pit.org is the official fan page for Slash and his music. Included is an excellent transcription of Sweet Child O Mine in an easy to read format. Additionally, the site is a wealth of information on Slash and his projects since Guns and Roses.

• Magic Tab – The coolest thing about Magic Tab is the unique way it is designed. Unlike most tab sites which have the entire tab to a song in one page, Magic Tab breaks the song down into small, easily learnable sections. When you're ready, you click the play button and the audio of the song you are learning starts to play while the tabs scroll by from left to right. This design makes it easy to know where you are in the song and the audio helps to make sure you're getting the phrasing right.

Tabs are a great tool to help you learn how to play songs without knowing how to read music. You do, of course, need to know how to read tabs. This excellent article from LoveToKnow will help you get up and running. Before you know it, you'll be rocking along with Slash, Izzy, Axl, Duff, and Steven.

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