Lauren Bateman teaches the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black" on acoustic guitar. The song uses Em, B7, D, G, and A7 chords, with a key tip: keep your second finger stationary when switching between Em and B7. The rhythm follows a steady down-stroke pattern counted as "1 & 2 & 3 & 4."
Hey guitar enthusiasts, I'm gonna be teaching you a great song by the Rolling Stones today. It's called Paint It Black, and we're gonna be using an E minor chord and a B7 chord. We're also gonna be using a D chord, a G chord, and an A7 chord. Now if you're not great with that B7, you can make your E minor chord with your second and third fingers and work on that transition because the second finger doesn't have to move when you go between E minor and B7. Now the first part of the verse is all E minor and B7. As we get into the later part part, we have some chords that are going to be only 2 beats each. It's going to be our E minor D, our G and D chords that have 4 beats. We're going to be doing all downstrokes: 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. And then on the split measure chords, when we get to that E minor D, it's going to be 1, 2 and 3, 4 and 1, 2 and 3, 4 and on those chords. All right, so let me take it from the top. Here we go. I see a red door and I
