Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones · ншб

149 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-17, 26-33 and 42-49, and 2 more places -- 69.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 139 BPM
PAINT IT BLACK BY THE ROLLING STONES · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 12 sections: 115 keep time, 1 is a fill, 10 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-149.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS8S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones?

139 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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