Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Please check out my other Ringo Starr/Beatles drum covers at the link below!
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I figured I would keep things going with the title tracks from the Beatles first two films. This is a tricky one to play and a performance that I always talk about when someone says that Ringo was a subpar drummer with no technique.
This shuffle rhythm at this tempo is very difficult to play. Not only requires a lot of stamina but also a great deal of technique. You have to know how to allow the sticks to work for you and not against you. Ringo definitely knew this and could play these uptempo shuffles with the greatest of ease. A true master at this! One of the trickiest parts is making sure you’re playing relaxed and not slamming the drums really hard. That’s one of the things that cause so many people to tire out 30 seconds into this kind of rhythm. Not only does he play this groove so easily but then he builds into each chorus with some very quick unison eighth note snare/floor tom fills. Also not easy to do after keeping that rhythm going in the verses.
One interesting thing about this song is the bass drum pattern. If you listen to isolated tracks here on YouTube, you’ll find that they all somehow do not represent what is actually being played on the bass drum. The bass is completely buried on these isolated tracks for the most part. You’ll see videos of people playing the song with very sparse bass drum and in some cases, no bass drum at all in the verses. I used the Moises AI app to isolate the drums and it was very clear that there is a distinct bass drum being played throughout this song. It just doesn’t make any sense to me that Ringo would choose to play the bass drum so sparingly on this song. It’s a driving rock song, why leave the bass drum out and have it so sparse?
From what I could hear, the first verse has some measures of just beat 1 on the bass drum and then others with 1 and 3. I could be wrong, but that’s how I hear it. For this video I played the first verse just doing beat 1 of each measure. Going into the choruses he very clearly switches to 1 and 3 on the bass drum. I then carried that over into the second verse since by that point in the song I’m hearing it consistently played that way on each measure.
There is also a percussive element that you hear coming out of each chorus that is very faint in the mix. It’s a tapping pattern on beats 2 and 4 during the “won’t you please, please help me” breaks. It sounds like it could be on a drum or some kind of hand drum, but from going through the isolated tracks, I discovered that it’s actually tapping on an acoustic guitar.
Anyway, this is a really fun song to play and a great one to learn to develop these faster shuffle patterns. Enjoy!
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1961 Ludwig Super Classic
14x22, 9x13, 16x16
1962 Ludwig Jazz Festival 5.5x14
Cymbals:
18” A Zildjian Crash 50’s
20” A Zildjian Ride 50’s
14” A Zildjian Hi Hats 50’s
20” A Zildjian Ride 50’s
Please check out my other Ringo Starr/Beatles drum covers at the link below!
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3XzC7m8s7uLbQJPtCgLUgyLT-1t5YzsK&si=oHtY-kC--UPPHQL5
I figured I would keep things going with the title tracks from the Beatles first two films. This is a tricky one to play and a performance that I always talk about when someone says that Ringo was a subpar drummer with no technique.
This shuffle rhythm at this tempo is very difficult to play. Not only requires a lot of stamina but also a great deal of technique. You have to know how to allow the sticks to work for you and not against you. Ringo definitely knew this and could play these uptempo shuffles with the greatest of ease. A true master at this! One of the trickiest parts is making sure you’re playing relaxed and not slamming the drums really hard. That’s one of the things that cause so many people to tire out 30 seconds into this kind of rhythm. Not only does he play this groove so easily but then he builds into each chorus with some very quick unison eighth note snare/floor tom fills. Also not easy to do after keeping that rhythm going in the verses.
One interesting thing about this song is the bass drum pattern. If you listen to isolated tracks here on YouTube, you’ll find that they all somehow do not represent what is actually being played on the bass drum. The bass is completely buried on these isolated tracks for the most part. You’ll see videos of people playing the song with very sparse bass drum and in some cases, no bass drum at all in the verses. I used the Moises AI app to isolate the drums and it was very clear that there is a distinct bass drum being played throughout this song. It just doesn’t make any sense to me that Ringo would choose to play the bass drum so sparingly on this song. It’s a driving rock song, why leave the bass drum out and have it so sparse?
From what I could hear, the first verse has some measures of just beat 1 on the bass drum and then others with 1 and 3. I could be wrong, but that’s how I hear it. For this video I played the first verse just doing beat 1 of each measure. Going into the choruses he very clearly switches to 1 and 3 on the bass drum. I then carried that over into the second verse since by that point in the song I’m hearing it consistently played that way on each measure.
There is also a percussive element that you hear coming out of each chorus that is very faint in the mix. It’s a tapping pattern on beats 2 and 4 during the “won’t you please, please help me” breaks. It sounds like it could be on a drum or some kind of hand drum, but from going through the isolated tracks, I discovered that it’s actually tapping on an acoustic guitar.
Anyway, this is a really fun song to play and a great one to learn to develop these faster shuffle patterns. Enjoy!
Please like and subscribe!
1961 Ludwig Super Classic
14x22, 9x13, 16x16
1962 Ludwig Jazz Festival 5.5x14
Cymbals:
18” A Zildjian Crash 50’s
20” A Zildjian Ride 50’s
14” A Zildjian Hi Hats 50’s
20” A Zildjian Ride 50’s
