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So what makes Sweet Child O' Mine tick? How did Guns N' Roses create a song that was simultaneously sweet, romantic, and heavy as heck? Well, they did it by accident, but setting that aside, there's a lot of interesting compositional techniques that went into this hard rock masterpiece. For instance, did you know that there are literally zero actual resolutions in it? None whatsoever. They replace them all with a couple different pseudo-resolve-y things, which keeps the song moving forward and never lets the listener actually rest. Plus we break down one of the most famous riffs in all of hard rock. Check it out! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/bCTDaj Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/12tonevideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/12tonevideos Email: 12tonevideos@gmail.com Next: https://youtu.be/g_ceu6uOfn0 Last: https://youtu.be/0YDnJyHBBP8 Sweet Child O' Mine: https://www.youtu.be/bzAGZT_XTAk Riffs video: https://youtu.be/DDdY8x9xan0 Intervals video: https://youtu.be/heRleAas0lY Tensions video: https://youtu.be/LqSZ4-K3RfI What's A Key? video: https://youtu.be/LU4K0fa6oj4 Modes video: https://youtu.be/NIIQKMbHSrI Dominant Function video: https://youtu.be/lbQ6MNgox7g Cadences video: https://youtu.be/evwgAttA80M Anticipation (Syncopation) video: https://youtu.be/crspVuWe-EI Backdoor Resolution (Chord Substitutions) video: https://youtu.be/0YDnJyHBBP8 Modulation video: https://youtu.be/41HPY_QmLqQ Power Chords video: https://youtu.be/-XQMWG3aShY Sources: http://www.sheetmusicdownload.in/piano/sheets/1691/Guns_N_Roses_Sweet_Child_Of_Mine.html http://www.avclub.com/article/sweet-child-o-mine-marked-turning-point-guns-n-ros-230920 Huge thanks to our gold-level Patreon supporters: Ron Jones Jill Jones Susan Jones Howard Levine Elaine Pratt Ken Arnold Nakarin: https://www.youtube.com/user/jerom09666 And thanks as well to Henry Reich, José N., Logan Jones, Eugene Bulkin, Jody, Yan Han, Abram Thiessen, Anna Work, and Oliver! Your support helps make 12tone even better! Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold and Inés Dawson for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!