Paint It Black Tabs

Guitarists who are fans The Rolling Stones' early years will be eager to find Paint It Black tabs, either for free on the Internet or to purchase in book form. The Stones' career has been, by far, the longest running in the history of rock-n-roll. Spanning nearly five decades, this seminal band has hit records and singles going back to the early 1960s. The following information will provide some basic history for this amazing song and will also help you find guitar and bass tabs so you can play along with Keith, Mick, Brian, Bill and Charlie.

Paint It Black, released as a single in 1966, harkens back the psychedelic sound that The Rolling Stones and other '60s bands dabbled with during the years following the Summer of Love. The main riff in Paint It Black is actually played on a sitar, an Indian instrument that influenced the sounds of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones during this time. When The Beatles visited Transcendental Meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India, George Harrison learned how to play the Sitar. When he returned to England, he taught the basics of the instrument to The Stones lead guitarist Brian Jones. So unless you have a sitar and know how to play it, you will have to play the sitar parts in Paint It Black tabs on your guitar.

You'll never be without a tab version of Paint It Black as long as you have access to the World Wide Web. The following sites have excellent tablature transcriptions available for guitar and bass.

• Ultimate Guitar: Ultimate Guitar is one of the most popular tab sites in the Internet. Two transcriptions, posted by different users of the site, demonstrate two different ways to play the song. Try them both out and see which one works best for you. Or better yet, perhaps you could take the parts you like from each one and combine them to create the ultimate version.

• Guitar Music Tabs: Guitar Music Tabs posts guitar chords for Paint It Black that can help you understand which chords the tabs refer to. Understanding chords as well as being able to read tablature numbers is an important part of becoming a more evolved musician. This site also features several YouTube videos of The Rolling Stones playing Paint It Black.

• AZ Chords: AZ Chords also has an excellent tab transcription for this classic Stones song. This version explains the use of a capo in the song, and how all the tabs are to be played in relation to the capo.

You don't want to leave your bass player out of the fun! Share the following sites with the bassist so the entire band can play along.

• Bass Masta: Bass Masta is a tab site specially designed for assist. The site allows users to post different versions of songs. You can browse through the different versions using the easy tabbed-browsing design of this excellent web site. There are currently ten versions of Paint It Black to choose from.

• FretPlay: FretPlay has a great transcription of the bass line to this classic hit.

For those of you who prefer to have your tabs in a form you can hold in your hands, consider the following tab books.

• The Rolling Stones Singles Collection: The London Years: An essential tab book for all Stones fans, this book has many great songs from the early days of the Stones' career including Paint It Black.

• The Rolling Stones-Aftermath: An essential tab book for all Stones fans, this book has many great songs from the early days of the Stones' career including Paint It Black, Lady Jane and I Am Waiting. Click on the image at the right to learn more.

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