Cavallo and the band started recording the song in Record One Studio B in Sherman Oaks, CA, whilst Dr Dre used Studio A to produce his stable of hip-hop artists. During the evening of the first day of recording, Allen Sides comments that Dean Parks was working with Dr Dre in Studio A, using a mandolin. Cavallo approached Parks to add some mandolin material to the recording, but Parks was booked up for the following months, and refused. The second engineer then suggested using fellow session guitarist Tim Pierce, who turned up the next day. Within an hour, the team had recorded both the introduction mandolin section, and got Pierce to noodle around the basic track playing counter-melodies. Cavallo then asked Pierce to attempt the guitar solo section, which he did using a slide on the guitar.