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Paint It Black · The Rolling Stones

EXERCISE 4 OF 22
Groove D -- Part D
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paint It Black on drums

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

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-17, hi-hat through bars 18-24, toms through bars 25-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and toms through bars 42-49, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---x---x---x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |g-------g-------|
Paint It Black -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 14-26 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 32-58 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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