Video Lesson – Paint It Black

Here’s a video showing how to play bass to Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones.:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmphrIDK7ps

Paint It Black has essentially got three sections to look at and learn.

There’s the Verse, the Chorus, and the ‘Outro’ Section.

Here’s how you combine the parts together to play through the song:

Intro – Guitar, then 2 bars of drums and bass comes in for 2 bars (use basic B to E 8th note pattern from the verse section)

Verse 1 – use verse pattern

Chorus 1 – use chorus pattern

Verse 2 – use verse pattern

Chorus 2 – use chorus pattern

Verse 3 – verse with just vocal – play a stab on Beat 1 then don’t play until the chorus

Chorus 3 – use chorus pattern

Verse 4 – use verse pattern

Chorus 4 – use chorus pattern

Outro – use outro pattern from here