Paint It Black Guitar Lesson - Rolling Stones

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In this Paint It Black guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play this awesome song by The Rolling Stones on acoustic guitar.

The tuning is a bit strange on the original recording. You need to have a capo at the 2nd fret, but you will still sound a little bit flat of the original recording. You will need to either slightly tune each string up, or place an mp3 of the track into software like Seventh String's "Transcribe" to slightly detune the recording so you can play along with it in tune. That is what I needed to due in order to transcribe this song.

I will be arranging the sitar melodies for guitar and they sound really nice on an acoustic guitar. There is also some rhythm guitar work under the sitar melodies that I will cover just in case you have a second guitarist you can jam this with.

I will go through each section of the song in the order that it appears on the recording. There are a lot of repeats so hopefully you will get this great song under your fingers in no time! #paintitblackguitarlesson #rollingstones #guitarcovers #faithguitars

Thanks! Carl...

[turquoisetangerinebusiness]

Paint it black time stamp
Iconic opening 2:29
Overdub chords 6:50
Second guitar chords 7:36
sitar part variation 9:00
Chorus 10:10
Rhythm change 13:05
Brian Jones improvising 14:52

[truthstillmatters]

You're an amazing instructor Carl. You have definitely found your calling and I thank you for sharing it with us!

[spoonshouse]

Thanks. I am a lefty who plays right handed guitars and basses without restringing them, and I've been trying to figure Paint It Black forever! Finally I have it! Thanks so much.

[Sarahbuildsstepsequencers]

Just want to say...thank you for all of your generous guitar lessons! I really appreciate your taking your time to teach anyone who wishes to learn. ❤️

[bakefish]

Man... how do you learn all this stuff? Respect.

[thesocialmediascientistmbe]

Excellent!
I'm hopefully seeing the stones for the first time in Madrid in June. I have a few months to learn this and then maybe Keith will let me play with him.

Thanks❗🎸🎸

[davidlegalley]

Thanks Carl 👍🏽👍🏽. You're one of the BEST instructors & artists on the Net. Appreciate your lessons.

[thomassmiththekingbee]

I always love the multiple camera angles

[krimzo]

I loved this song and somehow i completely forgot about it.. thanks for reminding me and for doing a lesson of it. Stay amazing Carl!

[missbknodel]

You're amazing Carl. Just amazing. Thank you. Once again.

[egoulet]

Thanks Carl,
I learn the half of the song I know by watching your videos

[trevorbentz]

thanks Carl it's very nice to play this way

[BKMDano]

Noel young don't let it bring you down. Some say it's in double drop others say it's a whole step sure would like to know!!! Thanks

[chrisbade]

Hey Carl, can you please do a lesson on the solo for The Beatles I Saw Her Standing There and Boys? I'm thinking of making a Beatles cover band and would really appreciate it!

[nihilistlivesmatter]

I learnt to play this years ago, but I like how you showed all of the little embellishments some of which I hadn't even heard before, (such as the bend, and the e on the b string paired with the capoed d on the e) but now you point them out are glaringly obvious, super cool.

I'd like to see you do Sister Morphine just for Ry Cooder's slide part alone, thanks

[Matrix_red]

Hi from Chile, good song, I really appreciate each video

[thehunter]

This was definitely an eye opener lol I'm a beginner and seeing this in person looks alot more difficult than i thought it was gonna be after so many times hearing it 😅. I definitely wanna attempt the main intro/riff, that lick sounds amazing on acoustic. Hopefully can get a good tone on my electric.

[skyo]

Such a good tutorial! Thany you so much!

[Orion]

Have to learn this for my band class cuz i’m the only person who plays guitar there but i normally play trumpet.

[portersstopmotionanimation]

This song is my favorite can't wait to learn it 😁