The Genius of Ringo

Ringo Starr was more than just a lucky drummer who hooked up with The Beatles. This video makes the argument that his originality, technique, skill, patience, and influence all add up to making him an unqualified genius of his instrument. He was, by all meaningful ways, the FIRST rock and roll drummer.

George Hrab is creator and producer of The Geologic Podcast, has released seven independent albums and a concert DVD, written two books, and has professionally been the drummer with The Philadelphia Funk Authority since 1998.
This video was created for the North East Conference on Science and Skepticism's 2020 NECSS conference. [ necss.org ]

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A few notes:

Ringo does indeed play the “Help” fill on both the snare and floor tom with both hands playing in unison. I was more interested in demonstrating the rhythmic differences, so I only played it on the snare.

I mistakenly left out an extra kick drum note on the “In My Life” groove. Apologies…

I am an ignorant American when it comes to the pronunciation of “Giles.” Apologies for that too!

I also meant to say "over 150" songs... and was talking about the really well known and culturally indelible ones.

 And as far as the Come Together pattern— This was a delicate dilemma for me. I've seen the video with Ringo and Dave Stewart, and quite honestly (and with utmost respect) I think that Ringo is misremembering what he did. I know that sounds amazingly presumptive, but if you listen to the isolated drum tracks from Abbey Road, I think the take they used has Ringo going "down" the toms. They are quite muted with towels draped over them so the relative pitch is hard to make out [plus Ringo had an extra tom on his bass drum for those sessions, which in my example I did not], so I humbly am playing what I'm hearing. I very well may be wrong, and I did go back and forth (literally!) on how to play it. I think the left handed-ness is the most relative point though. Thanks for watching!

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