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From: juggle@Athena.MIT.EDU
From: pp21+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Andrew Platosh)
The song from the show is Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones.
Here's the way I've been playing it - slightly modified to make it sound
better.
"Paint It Black"
by Rolling Stones
Tablature by PAUL PLATOSH
INTRO:
D U D U D U |H|H|
|P|P|H|
-----0----0----0--|-----0----0-----0---0-|-----0----0----0---|-------2---------
---5---7----8-----|-10----8-----7----5---|--5----4-----5---7-|-2-4-5----5-4-2-4
------------------|----------------------|-------------------|-----------------
------------------|----------------------|-------------------|-----------------
------------------|----------------------|-------------------|-----------------
------------------|----------------------|-------------------|-----------------
--0---------------|--0-------------------|
--0---------------|--0-------------------|
--0---------------|--0-------------------|
--2---------------|--2-------------------|
--2---------------|--2-------------------|
--0---------------|--0-------------------|
Strum Backwards Strum Backwards
(FOUR BEATS) (FOUR BEATS)
VERSE:
Em |S| |S| |S|
||----------0---0---0-|-----0---0---0---0-|----0---0---0---0-|-0----0----0----|
||----/---5---7---8---|--10---8---7---5---|--5---4---5---7---|-5-4--4-2--2-4--|
||*--/----------------|-------------------|------------------|---------------*|
||*-/-----------------|-------------------|------------------|---------------*|
||--------------------|-------------------|------------------|----------------|
||--------------------|-------------------|------------------|----------------|
I see a red door . . .
___ _
-----3---2--2--|-----3-2-2--|-----3--3-3---------3---2--|-3-5-3-2-3-|
-----0---3--3--|-----0-3-3--|-----0--0-0---REST--0------|-----------|
-----0---2--2--|-----0-2-2--|-----0--0-0---------0------|-----------|
---------0--0--|-----0-0-3--|---------------------------|-----------|
---------------|------------|---------------------------|-----------|
--0------------|-3----------|--0------------------------|-----------|
___
---3--2--2--|------------|-----------|
---0--3--3--|-2--2--2--2-|--4-4-4-4--|
---0--2--2--|-2--2--2--2-|--4-4-4-4--|
------0--0--|-2--2--2--2-|--4-4-4-4--| repeat
------------|------------|-----------|
-0----------|------------|-----------|
Explanation:
The song's real easy, no explanation needed.
|H| = Hammer on
|P| = Pull off
|S| = Slide _
--- = Quarter note eg: 3
GOOD LUCK!
pardon any mistakes - its from memory.
Fm C7
I see a red door and I want it painted black
Fm C7
No colors any more I want them to turn black
Fm Eb Ab Fm
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
Fm Eb Ab Eb Bb C7
I have to turn my head until the darkness goes
Fm C7
I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
Fm C7
With flowers and my love both never to come back
Fm Eb Ab Fm
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Fm Eb Ab E6 Bb C7
Like a new born baby it just happens every day
Fm C7
I look inside myself and see my heart is black
Fm C7
I see my red door and I want it painted black
Fm Eb Ab Fm
Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the fact
Fm Eb Ab Eb Bb C7
It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black
Fm C7
No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue
Fm C7
I could not forsee this thing happening to you
Fm Eb Ab Eb Fm
If I look hard enough into the setting sun
Fm Eb Ab Eb Bb C7
My love will laugh with me before the morning comes
Fm C7
I see a red door and I want it painted black
Fm C7
No colors any more I want them to turn black
Fm Eb Ab Fm
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
Fm Eb Ab Eb Bb C7
I have to turn my head until the darkness goes
C7 Fm C7
I want to see your face, painted black, black as night
Fm C7
Don't wanna see the sun flying high in the sky
Fm C7 Fm
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black Yeah
Other tabs for this song:
COMMENTS:
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Paint it Black
Yours sucks play this E-mail-Shrekdood@go.com
e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--5---7---8---10---8---7---5---5---4---5---7---5---4--|
G|------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------|
Tabbed by Garrett Banker
no this one doesnt suck at all! this one is more correct then yours, yours is one for beginners, and the one above is for the guys who know how to play the guitar, so shut up about what sux!!
alright, the first tab posted isn't "more correct". The only part you got close to right were the chords (and you don't strum the first chord twice, it's 3 times)Also if you actually listen to Paint It Black, you'll know there is NO open E in between the notes... and as far as the crap about for it being for people "who know how to play the guitar" its really for poseurs that think they are cool playing a fake lick!!! If you wanna post some Stones music, do it the right way
But then Mr Angry Stones Fan...
Paint it Black was originally done using a Sitar... played by Jones. So no matter how much we practice, it will never sound completly right... but then Richards played it on the Urban Jungle tour, so it is possible to get close. Screw you talkin like u know more stuff than others. Get over yourself.
I'd have to agree. The sitar was used, so whats all of the arguing for ? If you would like, you could buy a sitar.. Which is what I would secretly do.. or just stick with the first tab. If you want to get that effect from your guitar, that 'sitar' effect, then adding a few extra notes to give it an eastern feel would be worth commending.
free beer for everyone
Both tabs ar good. If I were doing it, I would play in e minor. I would use a little lick similar to that used by the January poster but I would also tune the "G" string to an open "E." The sympathetic twanging would give that sitar effect with a little creative hammering and pulling off in strategic places. You don't need a sitar to duplicate the record. There is nothing wrong with playing a "fake" lick. Fake licks are even played by the original artists, because you cannot always duplicate exactly what is on the record. As long as you capture the essence of the sound, you are doing it right.
yea well the object is to make it sound good on whatever instrument you're playing -- if they had recorded it on the guitar they would have probably played it differently.
me, i play the tune unaccompanied on the acoustic guitar, so i play the riff on the A string with an open low E droning underneath it when singing the verse (a string frets 7 9 10 12 10 9 7 7 6 7 9 -- then to a b7 chord). i think it sounds like crap up high w/o a bass guitar underneath
i just started playing guitar and even i know its retarded to use one string for a whole intro. use more than one. by the way, there shouldnt be an open high e between the notes
If you all know how to play it so well...why don't you just tab the song yourself? Seems to me that would stop the stupid, pointless arguing.
that first post who said it sucks, what the hell, you took all the open e string and it rules what you can't play a chord what involves fretting one string, you are messed
Rizzo, your version is by far the coolest Ive tried whether it's technically correct or not
MAN I TIRDE TO PLAY PAINT IT BALCK.............................BUT ITS TOOOOOO HARD!!!!
Cant somebody please tell me how to play this song.I dont get it.
EMAIL ME AT joeyramone1989@aol.com
Tirde??
Free beer?
In the third to the last line, after "black as night" it should be followed with "black as coal"
shut up i know where you live TEX
hey guys, have you ever thought about discussing the tab serious ???
play it the way you think it sounds great. who is the one to decide whats good and bad ???
Mr. Rock himself should decide...
Enjoy the song anyway. at least you all like your versions ;-))
cheerz from Germany
I find your tab realy easy to understand and I love to play the guitar and I just want to thank you for posting all this awsome Tab THANKS ALOT!!
Hey, all these various ways of playing them all sound the same to me, so why doesn't everyone just play the one that they like.
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this tab is good but i found an easier way to play it easier (sounds the same as the one above):
e|0-2-3-5-3-2-0-0---0-2|
B|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-4-0-|
G|---------------------|
D|---------------------|
A|---------------------|
E|---------------------|
AND THEN IT GOES THE SAME WITH:
e|-------2-------------|
B|-2-4-5---5-4-2-4-----|
G|---------------------|
D|---------------------|
A|---------------------|
E|---------------------|
ok the verse is right but the cords arnt
there
i see the girls walk by
Dm C F C
in there summer clothes
Dm Dm
i have to turn my head untill
Dm C F C G
the darkness goes
A
Damn! so many ways to play 1 song.
I'm just gonna take the easy way out and buy the tab book,
I know thats the lame way to learn a song, but F**K-it at least i'll no its right.
to all those guys that said it was originally done on a sitar yeah, i bought a sitar where can i get the tabs for paint it balck for the sitar.
Can one of you die-hard Stones' fans tab out 'Hang Fire'? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
No.
I'M GONNA BEAT THE SH^T OUTTA ALL OF YOU RON WOOD WANNABE'S!
man how can you say that song is hard to play....lol.....i think it is easy
I agree with 'Legends Die'. The song is correct but i think it goes more like this:
la la la-la la laaaaa dobedoo. schoowap. laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Tahnkyou and goodnight
See this intro sounds good too:
---------0---1----|-3---1---0--------|---------0--------|------------------|
-3---3-----3---3--|---3---3---3-3----|-3---2------------|-3---2---2---2----|
---2---2----------|---------------2--|---2---2---2------|---2---2---2---2--|
-0---0---0---0----|-0---0---0---0----|------------------|------------------|
------------------|------------------|-0---0---0--------|-0---0---0---0----|
------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
song is easy to play sounds good and is fun to play around with
I just started playing this song, the intro from garret sounds good but I still search the tabs for the chorus, and it's confusing, because on almost every tab site it's in a diffirent way :s
Everybody arguing over the "right" way to play this song needs to chill the fuck out. It's goddamned music. You're taking all the enjoyment out of it. Of course there's gonna be different ways to play it, and there's nothing wrong with that. God, I fuckin' hate soulless guitar players with concern for technique but not feeling. It's the attitude & spirit behind the music that counts, not the fuckin' technical accuracy.
i agree with Enocifer it is the attitude and spirit behind a song that matters not how many diffrent ways it is to play it :)
if anybody even knows how to play sitar post some ideas for this song because i will ONLY play this on sitar in order to do it justice(my Sa is F if you could help out)
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