Ringo ends the solo with his right hand on the floor tom where the notes increase in volume before exiting to the next section of the song. This has the effect of the figure moving across the beats of the bar and against the straight bass drum. Ringo plays this three note motif where two sixteenths are played and one is rested. The same figure is used throughout the majority of the solo. You can use whichever sticking works best for you of course. Notice how Ringo alternates his sticking when going round the drums from LR when moving down the drums, to RL when moving up the drums. This is definitely all played on the tom toms despite the snare rattling quietly in the background on certain notes. Again, there are some notes that sound very much like a snare drum but not quite. Ringo plays 1/8th notes on the bass drum throughout, laying his alternating hands over the top. Here’s the actual drum solo itself and as I’m sure you will agree, it’s a glorious sight! “ The End” – Drum Solo Notation ( From 0:21) View the video on YouTube HERE – Learn How To Play Drums The End Video Drum Lesson (The Beatles & Ringo Starr) The section ends with 1/4 notes on the crash/ride cymbal and a basic snare drum backbeat on beats 2 and 4. His right hand is on the floor tom and left on the high tom in between striking the snare drum on beats 4 and 1 of the bar. Ringo leaves this fill section with a drum groove based on the tom toms. Throughout the recording, Ringo’s snare drum rattles on occasional tom hits giving the impression that a snare drum might be struck but the whole fill (including the first four notes) are played on the toms. You can of course use whichever sticking you like, it’s up to you. The sticking remains the same throughout the first section as LR. Ringo comes into this section with a two bar drum fill starting on the ‘+’ of beat 1. “ The End” – Drum Solo Notation (Intro From 0:09 – 0:20) It helps to set up the drum solo nicely and besides, this drum fill is just too cool to skip over. The drum solo doesn’t officially start until 0:21 but there is a little sequence and drum fill that occurs at 0:09 that I wanted to just take a look at first. No double bass drum, no Hertas or pitch bending drums just Ringo and a pair of drum sticks. It’s beauty comes from it’s seeming simplicity. Ringo famously said that he always hated drum solo’s but thankfully this didn’t stop him producing one of the most replicated drum solo’s of all time. It’s taken from the song The End on the album Abbey Road by the Beatles of course. Finally, after searching all over the web and finding….nothing(?!), here is the actual drum notation/music for Ringo Starr’s ONLY recorded drum solo. The version of ‘Wish I Knew Now What I Knew Then’ with Dylan will likely never surface, but the bootleg can be heard below.So here it is. I said, ‘That’s good’, he said, ‘That’s bad’. One thing was the person who was looking out for Bob at that time said, ‘Bob’s gone’, so I said, ‘Where’s he gone?’, ‘Graceland’. I was doing an album there, and he came up to sing on it, but the album fell apart, and so did we. He continued: “I did a track in Memphis with Bob. “Because it’s emotional, deep down I’m an emotional person really, and what it says, ‘I’ll be with you when the deal goes down’, is beautiful, and only Bob would say it that way.” This song (‘When The Deal Goes Down’) is really emotional, ‘Maggie’s Farm’ is another one of my faves too,” Starr said. “We could do this for the rest of the week just on Bob Dylan. In addition to naming his favourite song by the legendary musician, Ringo recalled his only experience working with him in the studio. When Starr appeared on the Celebrity Playlist Podcastin 2010, he discussed his love of Dylan. However, only Ringo is audible on this version, and Dylan’s contribution sadly doesn’t feature. One of the songs that was subsequently bootlegged is the Dylan collaboration ‘Wish I Knew Now What I Knew Then’. While Starr’s personal issues somewhat explain why he never wanted the Memphis album to be released, he hasn’t been able to stop leaks from surfacing. Ultimately, Starr was ordered to pay $74,354 to regain control of his masters from Moman, and they never resolved their differences.
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