Deconstructing Come Together (Isolated Tracks)

[@PLATINUMPROPHETS]

Can't believe some people have the nerve to say Ringo was a bad drummer

[@OTOss8]

I think the controversy lies in the idea that Paul would often re-record Ringo's parts. I don't have a complete list of songs where this happened but it certainly fuels the fire of Ringo not being up to snuff.

[@pete1759]

@@OTOss8 Paul did not often re-record Ringo’s tracks. As far as history tells us, Paul only played drums on Back in the USSR and Dear Prudence while Ringo temporarily quit the band and was on holiday.

[@Caifo]

@@OTOss8 that’s a complete lie. Ringo was so competent that, in Paul’s words, he barely made mistakes in the studio. Paul played drums only in a few tracks, when Ringo was absent.

[@kirbygene]

@@OTOss8 you are full of it. Paul recorded drums on a few well-documented cases. That's all

[@justiceforall6412]

I can tell you as a pro musician, the only people who have ever said that to me were drummers who didn't work.

[@speedoflight9005]

The blend between Paul's bass and Ringo's drumming was the soul of this masterpiece. Yeah!!!

[@dannymoulton4829]

Yeah!!! Although to be fair John made a minor contribution

[@jonasrmb01]

@@dannymoulton4829 well yeah but their playing and paul suggesting to do it slower and grovier instead of the chuck berry style john wrote it in absolutely made the song

[@thesilvershining]

@@jonasrmb01 Absolutely

[@Marco-HidalgoMusicRecords]

@@dannymoulton4829 MINOR????? 🤔😁

[@dannymoulton4829]

@@Marco-HidalgoMusicRecords I was being facetious, Marco

[@fredo4070]

Those toms sound so good. Ringo’s understanding of tone, phrasing, and groove is so impressive. Tasteful drumming for the greatest band ever. Can’t beat it

[@karaamundson3964]

The way he figured out those TOWELS, tho--genius.

[@jeffreyhowell3982]

He felt the music

[@jeffreyhowell3982]

Priceless

[@ProfessorSwing]

did you know RINGO COVERED all his drums with tea towels plus 2 big blankets in the bass drum.

[@Professorkenneth]

Ringos drumming on this is fucking brilliant 👍🏻🥁🇬🇧

[@DoctorOboogie]

YES !

[@aldorayon7363]

That wasn't Ringo, but, Paul on drums

[@Kermit_T_Frog]

@@aldorayon7363 Liar.

[@weehudyy]

@@aldorayon7363 Nope ... You can tell Paul , he is way waaay sloppier than Ringo . The Ballad of John and Yoko is Paul . Donovan's Mellow Yellow is Paul , totally different feels .

[@Kermit_T_Frog]

In a recent interview with Colbert, Ringo said "Come Together" was his favorite.

[@nandopelusi7699]

Paul's bass is a revelation of power and subtlety.

[@bobg6638]

McCartney’s bass line takes this song from great to GREAT. For that matter, bass lines throughput Abbey Road are incredible.

[@misma1909]

Sounds very similar to Deacon's Fat Bottomed Girls bassline. Macca 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@dog1net]

As Kenny Aronoff said, no other drummer would have come up with such a genius groove except for Ringo.

[@davidfreud9188]

Who's Kenny Aronoff? Seriously, I don't know

[@walrusgombit]

The fact that the performance is minimal and fairly soft-toned in instrumentation but is still a hard rocking song shows the magic of The Beatles.

[@stradaveriusfiddle]

Ringo is the ‘go-to’ example for how a drummer can best ‘serve the song,’ and still play some very cool stuff. Any drummer who is just starting to play with his first live band situation should refer to at least a few songs with Ringo playing, and it should benefit them, if they listen carefully.

[@andriealinsangao613]

One factor is that by the time they were recording Abbey Road, the then-EMI Studios replaced their tube-based (valve for our British friends) REDD mixing consoles with the transistor-based TG consoles.

[@walrusgombit]

@@andriealinsangao613 what does that do for the recordings exactly? I’m not much of a tech person.

[@andriealinsangao613]

@@walrusgombit You see, with tube/valve, you can drive it harder and it would still sound pleasant, but with transistors (i.e. solid-state), once you drive it past a certain point, it would sound HORRIBLE, so you have to be conservative with the sound levels.

[@sleepyaccountant3193]

The feels on Ringo's drumming man... whoo damn!

[@bodijisattva9333]

It was the perfect combination of music and musicians . in the words of Ringo Starr he was the best ROCK steady drummer in the business.

[@davidkemmer]

Anyone can learn to play the notes but making the music come alive is much harder to master. I once read: "Of all the skills required to be a good musician, the most important one is the ability to play simple things really well". Playing with feel is a much more difficult skill to grasp and a lot of cats never understand that. LISTEN to Ringo's GROOVE here! His sense of feel is second to none and that alone makes him a world class drummer.

[@christheother9088]

I'm very suspicious of metronomes.

[@MsAppassionata]

@@christheother9088 You and Beethoven would get along very well. 😊

[@toddthing]

yes, I agree I wonder if you or anyone can hear it too? Those two solids hits that begin the main riff under the each verse; it sounds to me like they are rushed slightly. Not like he's doing it wrong... he's giving that part of the song a tiny spark..?

[@enricomenconi7015]

Ringo Starr in the 60's: what a drummer, my friends

[@TutankhamaruCapac]

WOAH! I can't believe I found this! I'm a 17 yr old Beatle fan learning to play guitar & THIS is my FAVORITE Beatle jam of all time! I just can't get enough of this song, I won't stop until it sounds the same! This is gonna be so useful for me, its beautiful! Thank you so much!

[@MsAppassionata]

Glad to hear it. Keep rockin’ 👍🏽

[@hugosanchez7599]

Ringo Starr, the greatest drummer of all time

[@mr.dr.prof.patrick7284]

Not trying to hate Bc they’re my favorite band but he’s not. It’s Bonham

[@thebookofeli849]

@@mr.dr.prof.patrick7284 don't forget about Keith Moon and Neil Peart

[@staringcorgi6475]

I like the bait to make elitist drummers/fans triggered

[@fredgien]

The best drummer for the Beatles.

[@staringcorgi6475]

I don’t like elitist drum fans hating on people who think ringo is the best because it’s an opinion

[@bikatsaava285]

Imagine if Ringo was just another drummer. There would be no Beatles

[@TroyQwert]

That's when the story began - Ringo joined the band.

[@karaamundson3964]

Imagine Pete Best behind that kit. Nope.

[@SirZaydenOfNapier10]

Always love learning little tidbits in the microphone bleed. For instance, on the drum track to this song, you can basically hear the entire rhythm section. Paul on bass, George on rhythm, & John on vocal. Listen out at 2:52 here in particular, to hear John sing the original lyric (whether ad-libbed or written, I'm not sure, I've forgotten), "got to get injections", changed to "got to be good looking". See what I mean about bleed? And now try that out with the multitracks of literally ANY song made by a group of people. You're guaranteed to find something fascinating.

[@hihunter7]

The electric piano in this is honestly one of if not the most groovy and vibing electric piano tracks I've heard. It's such a nice 60s sound and the chords blend with the music perfectly to create a really specific, almost nostalgic sound that just rocks very, very hard. John may have been getting lazier in the last few years of The Beatles, but when he played it was definitely so wonderful to hear. Great sound all around, great instrumentation and lyrics, great song, beyond great musicians, greatest band of all time!

[@ewest14]

Paul actually wrote the electric piano part. John watched as Paul played it and then played it on the album version

[@realJoshiBOI]

I thought Billy Preston was the one that played the Rhodes for this album after the recording of Let It Be as well…

[@gutgolf74]

Paul is playing the part.

[@evertvdb000]

John didn't get lazier.

[@evertvdb000]

@@ewest14 no, that's another myth from the Geoff Emerick book. You can hear it very clearly on this clip. There was a basic track, and then Paul, John and George overdubbed Rhodes piano (Paul) and lead guitars (John and George) at the same time, unto the basic track.

[@charly19]

Very good song Paul perfect on bass.

[@metrakos]

One of the jewels in the crown of rock grooves ….. dig a pony is another

[@TroyQwert]

Dig a Pony drumming is no comparison to Come Together, amigo! With all due respect. Ringo said he's most proud of his drumming on Rain. Or rather check Everybody's Got Something To Hide...

[@cgmaniac44]

I found so many songs where John talks about death and/or being killed. In this song he says very subtly in the intro, "Shoot Me". The Ballad of John and Yoko he says, "Christ you know it ain't easy, you know how hard it can be. The way things are going they're gonna crucify me." There's more, just can't recall at the moment... "Yer Blues" fairly blunt lyrics "Cold Turkey" I wish I was dead. Although I'm sure Heroin withdrawal will have you screaming that. "Happiness is a Warm Gun," of course was thought to be about heroin but according to John he saw the title on a Gun Magazine and wrote around that being a ludicrous concept. Anyway, all could easily be misconstrued.

[@babylonian.captivity]

"Please don't wake me, no don't shake me..." "There is a place. Where I can go. When I feel low. When I feel blue."

[@WWAWHTR]

Damn that’s an amazing kick drum sound.

[@spensert4933]

He gets so much shit. This is my fave moment of his he also knew how to get out of the way.

[@TroyQwert]

The drumming in this particular song comes to my mind whenever I think or talk about a real drumming masterpiece. Ringo composed it. I don't say it's the most complicated, but rather most recognizable. If played separately, you'd say exactly where it is from. All other drummings, in any other song or solo drum performances whoever ever played is just rhythm. Maybe with the exception of the Caravan. IMHO.

[@sirfaulkinator]

If anyone was wondering.... crash+bass twice, high hat four times, floor tom six times, high tom four times. Since Ringo was left handed on a right handed kit, he did the roll from floor tom to high tom, skipping the mid tom.

[@johnyarusso4953]

You are almost correct except for the Tom's. Even Ringo described it the way you did 40 years later but actually it's 5 beats on the high Tom, one beat on the middle tom, 3 more on the high tom then one on the floor Tom. He does it the way you described on the second fill of the fade out.

[@markp1549]

The toms sound like they go from high to low - standard clockwise on a right handed kit.

[@christopher19894]

The e-piano is so dope.

[@DumbShortsYT]

2:33 The way john says "LOOK OUT!!!"

[@danielgrubb9668]

Ringo stepped-up his game for Abbey Road.

[@Sunkenballs12]

He got new drums, and said it changed how he played because they sounded so different

[@buschovski1]

Fucking hell who are these guys? Theyre incredible.

[@doonbiz]

Magical, and will never be again, not even close!

[@larrywells1334]

Ringo is the man! When someone else can say that they were the drummer in the biggest group in history, and is still relevant after almost 60 years, let me know their name!

[@talkingabouthistory7385]

Continue uploading! I really like Your channel

[@lorenzofediuk626]

George used a les paul, but great video, thanks for putting the E. Piano part

[@therealmaggiemae]

19:22 that keyboard/organ is yummy

[@draguilar1]

Pensé que era Billy Preston

[@JesperSalama]

@@draguilar1 Paul McCartney*

[@RicardoAldana1988]

John Lennon plays it.. in the pictures it seems to been him

[@markpatterson2507]

On Abbey Road...Billy Preston Fender Rhodes on this and B3 on I Want You she's So Heavy

[@RicardoAldana1988]

This is definitely the Lennon’s playstyle..

[@davidfreud9188]

It's a great way to experience Ringo's rock solid timing. He's a human metronome with perfect timing.

[@sallykohorst8803]

Well real Beatle fans know the truth Ringo is an amazing drummer. Oh what a song as usual

[@Likeaforest]

אחזה כיף לקום בבוקר ולשמוע את זה על הפיד . תודה רבה.

[@karaamundson3964]

Glad to see your comment!

[@billyshears2286]

hearing john sing "shoot me" is disconcerting ..

[@justinhamilton8647]

He was talking about heroin

[@karaamundson3964]

Heroin my guy

[@derekcastillo8549]

10:54 George's Guitar Solo

[@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv]

This is John’s guitar solo. George’s solo is 11:53

[@Henry3Studios]

@@JoaoGabriel-lk9cvJohn plays the lower harmony, George the higher.

[@evertvdb000]

John and George at the same time.

[@carloseugeniocarlos4287]

i always love the heavy drumming by Mr Ringo on this one and the whole album. its great as fuck!

[@jorgeoctavo770]

Unique drummer

[@davidkornblatt851]

Ringo was best drummer for the job!

[@NicolePuzziNicolePuzzi]

Ringo criou o estilo Ringo Starr. Um dos melhores bateristas do mundo.

[@LukeGz]

I love that bass line

[@kaantaras]

Go go Ringo!

[@kaantaras]

Go Ringo!

[@dougdoesall]

I would love to have seen up close the drumming on this. There's a play he does with the deep tom and the kick that is incredible. It sounds like all kick, but it can't be. However it was done it's very different, of course Ringo was different in his style.

[@karaamundson3964]

Left-handed, and genius as fuck.

[@andrewfrost2353]

Ringo was a great drummer, a technion.

[@thomquickmusic]

On the very beginning Vocals I just noticed John saying "Shoot me" = not a good premonition unfortunately, but he seemed to shouting it throughout the song = Quit asking for it Johnny!

[@jugibur2117]

This "Shoot me!" in the vocals part is really spooky.. PS: Is this Michael Palin in the background at 19:16 ?

[@DLD2Music]

no, he is Mike Vicker

[@spensert4933]

Maybe ... he and eric idol friends

[@joaovaz2001]

that eletric piano is a gem

[@moongazer2049]

Ringo is amazing

[@Venebloxvide]

In the rhythm Guitar is George in Gibosn les Paul

[@andrewfrost2353]

Ringo is a Genius, the Greatest

[@hugo2216]

John pinched it from Chuck Berry (settled out of court) however Paul came up with the bass part and the swamp feel to make it genius! Fact.

[@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv]

Pinched the first line.

[@manolo020177]

0:04 drums 4:21 bass 8:40 guitars 14:59 voice 19:17 keyboards

[@JimDeferio]

Great video! Anyone who listens to this all the way through will realize that "Come Together" is nothing like Chuck Berry's "Can't Catch Me" (I said Chuck Berry's but "Can't Catch Me" may have been pianist Johnnie Johnson's song).

[@karaamundson3964]

According to the Bob Spitz biography, John doubled his vocals on this tune (as well as many other later songs) because he did not feel that his voice was strong enough. If you listen to the backing vocals carefully, you can clearly hear John's voice doubling, not Paul's, most easily heard begining at 15:49 ("He wear no shoeshine..." through "he got walrus gumboot"..., etc. and verses beyond. However, Paul does contribute characteristically high "woo"s in the far background ( 17:10 )

[@evertvdb000]

It's paul overdubbing in the verses, John overdubbing himself in the chorus.

[@rizkirahmanmubarok]

3:15 i like that sound

[@NickBuchanan-h8o]

Ringo was a genius at knowing intuitively what drum pattern would serve a song. Listen to his drumming on- Rain A Day in the Life The End Hello Goodbye Etc There are drummers who are technically more advanced but none as good for The Beatles. He was perfect.

[@axelgutzler445]

Anyone else noticed that Lennon doing the famous clap-delay including his vocal „shhht“ actually was saying „shoot me“? Check it @16:59… unbelievable…

[@BadfingerBoogieBarb]

Fantastic recording top to bottom.

[@markhenri1131]

Holy hell, Paul's first note is on a major 7th and it's freaking my ears out. Am I hearing this right. WTF????

[@danszwiec6793]

If you haven't seen Mccartney 3, 2, 1, on Hulu yet check it out. He plays come together for a sec and he starts it on the E string as opposed to sliding from 5th fret A string, which is how lots of people/tabs online say. It was cool to see.

[@musicalmango5527]

the beatles wouldn’t have been the beatles without all four of them, but they really wouldn’t have gotten anywhere without ringo. he just elevates every single track he’s on.

[@DiegoRodriguez-dw7pv]

GOAT Drums and Bass line

[@Redplanetfilms1]

Damn Ringo, amazing!

[@stellapolanco6860]

Great parts of guitars and Fender Rhodes electric piano.

[@Piccolone]

This song is the reason why im interested in drums and bass

[@bradleycrouser]

Ringo MADE this one! Paul's bass, too!

[@hollstrom]

I will make the part from 10:53 to 11:07 my ringtone

[@Espritisback]

Shoot me...Eary warnings, he got. Very strange.

[@lococomrade3488]

He was talking about heroin, but yeah kinda odd.

[@cancerandaids3822]

Best version of this song

[@garysimmonds9636]

Read Ian MacDonald's book "Revolution In The Head" about the complete in-studio recording history of all their songs. He found that Ringo only messed up about 10 times in recording. Baring in mind The Beatles could do scores of takes for an individual song. The other 3 made a lot more errors.

[@Bigger-Than-Jesus]

so much chuck berry in this and you can really hear it deconstructed

[@aaronreeves8376]

Love it!

[@CrispBeats]

Is it me or does George Harrison's guitar ad-libs on the ep bit at the end sound so much like Pink Floyd.

[@davidfreud9188]

I also heard them say that part of the reason why they got rid of Pete best was that his timing wasn't that great. He would speed up and slow down and he was all over the place compared to Ringo whose timing is just rock solid

[@kevinkibble8342]

You can tell which order the parts were recorded in by the mic bleed lol

[@snippletrap]

Backing was all together live

[@mikeososki]

The COOLEST song ever done?

[@McDoinky]

That’s definitely the rickenbacker bass

[@Tom-hk6ub]

You can hear the amps are definitely Fenders !

[@EnlightenedRogue]

McCartney's favorite Abbey Road track!

[@aidendominguez269]

What’s is the effect o the electric piano or how is it called ?

[@oscaremmanuelpadronreyna2494]

Wou the bass

[@testeteste873]

why johns vocals are diferrent then the original? because im guessing the drums mics are just getting john voice in the room right!?

[@thedrspod]

it wouldnt be the recorded vocals in the background probally just john doing guide vocals

[@thomquickmusic]

Can I get a little love for Carl Palmer? Although in a much different category from Ringo = Ringo is not a Drummer, he's a Drumming COMPOSER, plain and simple. Ringo's drums ARE simple to play, but that is because it's COMPOSED = Carl did too, just a bunch more complicated - As a drummer, try to keep up with Carl and Good luck with that, BUT emulate Ringo in the long run instead!

[@shaygreenhorn2756]

16:19 Mark David Chapman: "And I took that personally"

[@idaslpdhr]

Please NEVER put his name on a Beatle post

[@luthfiramadhan9709]

I love The Beatles and I will subscribe

[@adbarretttth]

What is that bloody chord at 11:41(the train chord) always thought it was a synth. Can't find it anywhere in the interweb

[@adbarretttth]

@Glenn Watsonah ha, but what is the chord?

[@Vincentlpp08]

@@adbarretttth Barre aross the first three strings on the tenth fret

[@adbarretttth]

@@Vincentlpp08 thank you so very much.

[@Vincentlpp08]

@@adbarretttth glad I could help! I learned it from this video, great channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2q0n4BjqdqCn8U

[@Jdizzle6969]

Thought it was strings… crazy huh?!? 🤯

[@pedroh.7305]

Is it John or Paul on the E. Piano? And nice content, man. Thanks!

[@stellapolanco6860]

John Lennon play Fender Rhodes piano on this !

[@kenmiles4145]

Billy Preston on keys

[@ewest14]

Paul wrote it but John played it. Their engineer remarked that John studied what Paul was playing and did it for the record

[@markp1549]

Paul

[@matthew9148]

Paul came up with the idea but John wanted to play it by himself on the record.

[@rocktrackisolation70s]

Does anyone know what app they used for isolating? The instruments sound so good. Good job 👏

[@snippletrap]

Taken from Rock Band

[@enkibumbu]

This is why I don't chant "shoot me" over and over again.

[@hugosanchez7599]

19:45 this goes so hard

[@annfizzt2286]

I always wondered what sound effect is at the start, that (shhhiiiiickkk) ?

[@milescardis3830]

clapping with heavy reverb, while John says "Shoot me"

[@annfizzt2286]

@@milescardis3830 Thanks! that is cool I would have never figured that out on my own.

[@stephenstrang590]

How did you get isolated tracks?

[@karaamundson3964]

Love George Harrison's lead bits

[@squishvr174]

in the bass track the leaking drum track sounds like a washing machine in the background

[@TroyQwert]

Nothing Ringo ever did was ordinary, that's what made him special. (Pat Brennann, just some chat member. Hey, Pat, just didn't want to steal your copywrite).

[@alessandrorossetti1897]

sorry can i ask you where do you take these pictures from?

[@jonathanjudd3168]

Is that a vibraslap under the " ..shoot me .. " vocals ?

[@Maxim89Il]

Honestly, for me Ringo and Keith Moon are the greatest drummers ever.

[@ronbeam6893]

Is John saying "Shoot me" at the beginning of those phrases?

[@maumm5188]

Sí

[@cactaceous]

Of course.