Paint It Black · The Rolling Stones

133 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-17, 26-33 and 42-49, and 2 more places -- 63.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 139 BPM
PAINT IT BLACK · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 25, 37, 41, 53, 57 and 4 more.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 12 sections: 102 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-133.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDS8S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paint It Black?

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 hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 25, 37, 41, 53, 57 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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