Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Please check out my other Ringo Starr/Beatles drum covers at the link below!
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3XzC7m8s7uLbQJPtCgLUgyLT-1t5YzsK&si=oHtY-kC--UPPHQL5
The basic track for this tune was recorded on September 5, 1968 and marked Ringo’s return to the band after briefly leaving due to feeling disconnected from the group. Harrison led the band in welcoming Ringo back by installing a large flower display all over his drum kit. Just six days later, Ringo would acquire his thermogloss Hollywood configuration kit.
Like a number of tracks on the White Album, Ringo foregoes the use of the hi hat in the verses. An overdubbed castanet part really adds a cool rhythmic pattern that the standard 8th notes hi hat pattern wouldn’t have been able to provide. Adding the 16th notes on the hats in the choruses/solo sections help give the song a big lift. Most of his fills have a very similar rhythmic pattern throughout but they’re all placed and executed perfectly.
I overdubbed the castanet part and was planning to do the tambourine as well but didn’t have a chance to get to it. However, you can actually hear the tambourine part quite well on another track. Toward the end of the song, you’ll see in the video that I’m making some gestures and am looking up toward the stairway that can be partially seen in my videos. My wife and two kids got home in the middle of me finishing this up and my six year old daughter opened the basement door and wanted to come down. I was kindly trying to gesture for her to wait and thankfully she did. 😁
Drums:
1961 Ludwig Super Classic
14x22, 9x13, 16x16
1962 Ludwig Jazz Festival 5.5x14
Cymbals:
18” A Zildjian Crash 50’s
15” A Zildjian Hi Hats 60’s
20” Paiste 602 60’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
The basic track for this tune was recorded on September 5, 1968 and marked Ringo’s return to the band after briefly leaving due to feeling disconnected from the group. Harrison led the band in welcoming Ringo back by installing a large flower display all over his drum kit. Just six days later, Ringo would acquire his thermogloss Hollywood configuration kit.
Like a number of tracks on the White Album, Ringo foregoes the use of the hi hat in the verses. An overdubbed castanet part really adds a cool rhythmic pattern that the standard 8th notes hi hat pattern wouldn’t have been able to provide. Adding the 16th notes on the hats in the choruses/solo sections help give the song a big lift. Most of his fills have a very similar rhythmic pattern throughout but they’re all placed and executed perfectly.
I overdubbed the castanet part and was planning to do the tambourine as well but didn’t have a chance to get to it. However, you can actually hear the tambourine part quite well on another track. Toward the end of the song, you’ll see in the video that I’m making some gestures and am looking up toward the stairway that can be partially seen in my videos. My wife and two kids got home in the middle of me finishing this up and my six year old daughter opened the basement door and wanted to come down. I was kindly trying to gesture for her to wait and thankfully she did. 😁
Drums:
1961 Ludwig Super Classic
14x22, 9x13, 16x16
1962 Ludwig Jazz Festival 5.5x14
Cymbals:
18” A Zildjian Crash 50’s
15” A Zildjian Hi Hats 60’s
20” Paiste 602 60’s
