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This iconic drum groove in "Come Together" by the Beatles, performed by the great Ringo Starr, is one you're all familiar with. This is from their 1969 album titled "Abbey Road".
TIP: If you're looking to achieve a tom sound similar to the recording, throw some towels over your drums!

[@williamlegge2167]

For the Ringo critics , he is a drummers drummer, more people, and many of the greats were inspired to play drums because of Ringo. He was doing things no one else was doing. He played for the song like a great drummer should. His timing was excellent and his groove and feel was amazing. His drum parts are iconic. The 60’s were a different time, there were no drumeo videos, or you tube and defiantly not many drumming snobs, Ringo made a lot of what you you see today possible. He will go down as one of the greatest and most influential drummers in history. And that’s the truth.

[@Ogilla]

I'm not sure about drumming snobs, as jazz was immense back then, but the rest of what you said is 100% right! Neil Peart is far from being the most technical drummer, but he's inspiring and he was always absolutely perfect in the songs he played.

[@LewisBuckles]

@@Ogilla Neil Peart was an incredible drummer who kept on improving until the time of his untimely demise. His playing was perfect. Ringo plays a style all his own and original. Playing for the song as was said.

[@jaytee283]

bernard purdy

[@MyComedyStore]

Ringo was the one who popularized matching grip.

[@CameronFleury]

Great song. Ringo is such a talented drummer, and his simplicity with rhythm is definitely a reason why his parts were so complicated.

[@maddma]

I'm not a musician, but Ringo has always been the most musical of drummers that I've ever heard. I don't know how many hours I spent as a kid listening to Abbey Road on headphones, hearing, feeling every note, every instrument on that album especially the drums. To me Come Together still holds the test of time all these years later. Thanks for the video.

[@snoopythedoge5639]

I don’t even have a drum set it’s just cool seeing how the drumming works in this song

[@oldenmusicianco.4527]

I need to clear this up, I’m a fanatic. All of you people in the comments saying ‘He’s left handed so the fill starts on the floor tom’ are wrong. This is the only tutorial on KZbin that actually shows how to play the intro. No one else gets it right. Not even Ringo later on. The fill starts on the high tom and rolls down to the floor in the way that it does because... he was left-handed and that was the only way he could roll all the way down! These guys got it perfect. If you put this guy on Ringo’s Hollywood Thermogloss Maple kit from the album then it would almost sound identical!

[@carsongaer3084]

wrong. simply. wrong.

[@Jerry-oo8hd]

@@carsongaer3084 …clean the wax out your holes!

[@davidtyler2012]

all you have to do is find the isolated tracks and you can hear the floor Tom precedes the mounted

[@oldenmusicianco.4527]

@@davidtyler2012 If anything the isolated track confirms my understanding.

[@wannabeadrummer]

​@@carsongaer3084 It never sounds wrong though😊

[@stevescott8491]

Finally someone got this intro correct. Lots of "drummers" here apparently can't hear the difference between a high Tom and a floor Tom. Ringo did play only one rack Tom and a floor but in the recording studio for let it be and Abbey road, he played a Ludwig maple kit with a 12 & 13 rack Tom and a 16 floor. He also played with thin towels over the heads. If you listen to the isolated drum track it's fairly obvious he is rolling down, not up. Amazing how many different versions of this is on KZbin. I play this version and sounds spot on.

[@Gfp1995]

I dont hear it dude, it always sounds like he's finishing higher then he started

[@oldenmusicianco.4527]

Exactly! Finally someone who gets it!

[@xh0rsex]

I'm also a left handed drummer that plays a right handed kit, except I move my hats to where the floor tom normally is, and play open-handed with my right hand. It's sort of a hybrid setup.

[@johnfoster535]

This is the ONLY absolutely correct video on the internet regarding the exact drum pattern. Ringo himself today cannot even remember exactly what he did on the record. I have dissected this pattern myself by extremely slowing down the original recording and it reveals that the pattern indeed begins with the left hand on both the hats and the toms, with the right hand progressing down to the two lower toms, as he correctly shows above. Ringos awkward approach of playing a right handed drum set as a left handed player led to MANY unique and distinctive drum fills by him which magically fit in Beatles songs in a manner no one else would have done. The beginning of " Tell me Why" is another example, along with a quick fill at the start of " From Me to You ". Later on, Ringo elaborated with other notable fills in "Rain" and "She Said,She Said". Of course, his distinctive " falling down the stairs" drum fills in " A Day in the Life" were very reminiscent of the drum fills in John Lennon's favorite song : " A Whiter Shade of Pale", by Procol Harum. It must be said that although Ringo was no impressive soloist,or, virtuoso on the drums.....his totally unique style was an integral and massive part of the Beatles sound......and their success....they may have not made it without him.

[@fernandoaldekoa2436]

You are wrong. See how Ringo himself plays it at... kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ2cYmtuerWXgqs Minute 2:15

[@mike4619]

My take: how many drummers, past and present would ever come up with such a progression, purely from emotion and to fit the song?

[@TOAOM123]

Present? MANY BUT: Where would they be without ringo?

[@joshscus]

Finally! This has to be the first video on KZbin that demonstrates this correctly! So so many incorrect videos and it's great to see this finally showed how Ringo actually played it on the record!

[@DrumGearGeek]

this is not correct. Ringo played it from floor tom to rack tom.

[@Matt9311]

@@DrumGearGeek have you heard how it sounds in the recording because it does not sound like that

[@DrumGearGeek]

@@Matt9311 I’d suggest you listen again. It’s absolutely floor tom to rack tom, and it absolutely sounds like it.

[@RHCPsTv]

@@Matt9311 Ringo himself said that he went from floor tom to rack tom.

[@DavidLeeKing]

There's a Ringo video on KZbin showing him starting with the floor tom and going up to the rack tom instead of rack to floor. Weird.

[@AaronLevyDrums]

and in that same video he says he doesnt quite remember how he played it, but in the film "Let it Be" it showed him using a kit with 3 toms.

[@jonathanchesser9561]

In that clip, his kit only had two toms, so he made it work with what he had. During the actual recording of 'Abbey Road,' he indeed used his natural colored Ludwig kit with three toms instead of two. so what Drumeo did in this video is probably how Ringo did it on the original recording

[@t3wells]

@@AaronLevyDrums - Gonna' need to see that "Let It Be" footage, because he plays it several times on the KZbin video and he is clear that it was a lower to higher fill. After assuming for years that it was a descending fill, I can now hear it as floor tom to rack. Oh great, another Beatles conspiracy. Here is Ringo explaining how he did it... kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ2cYmtuerWXgqs

[@AaronLevyDrums]

t3wells google it, and watch it

[@t3wells]

@@AaronLevyDrums Do you have a link? I cannot find it. Did you watch the link I provided? Ringo!

[@Jerry-oo8hd]

Nice Job, Mr Creed. I’ve been trying for …ever to figure this out, talking to drummers, listening to others and never finding the right thing. You, Sir, have found it. Thank you. Now it all makes sense. Nice job!

[@chriscruz5884]

Love this video. Drumeo is truly the best organization out there for drumming

[@philippedevine5124]

Ringo is incarnation of feeling

[@TOAOM123]

Ringo is simultaneously the most underrated and overrated drummer of all time Those who completely write him off are wrong But those claiming he could go toe-to-toe with some of the other greats are also wrong Dude was very important to drumming And perfectly solid player

[@inkoherency]

While my guitar weeps

[@paulm8084]

I don't even play the drums. Just here for the most iconic drum beat

[@ARIZONA.3RIC]

Ringo gave a a drum clinic and he played the two beat bass drum then stared off on floor Tom and went to rack on come together. REALLY COOL WATCHING HIM EXPLAIN WHY HE WENT BACKWARDS DUE TO HIM BEING A LEFTY.

[@benjaminjohnson5385]

As a lefty I love seeing this

[@Trismagia]

This is the groove. Same thing it was recorded. Don't pay attention to Ringo videos on KZbin. Just hear the record (much better if you get the multitrack version) and you'll see what's really going on...

[@homerinchinatown2]

Yeah - this has my vote. I listened to an isolated track of the song and it sounds like 3 different tom sounds and the general pattern is high to low. If someone hears something else based on listening to the original song, it would be interesting to know more about it

[@01270211136]

Watch Ringo play it. He plays floor Tom, then rack.

[@Trismagia]

@@01270211136 You're wrong :)

[@oldenmusicianco.4527]

Absolutely! Couldn’t agree more!

[@lordarcas11]

I saw a video where Ringo starts it with a floor tom. And he explained it there why that's how he does it.

[@ngreene8464]

That kit sounds amazing

[@walterzannino8082]

Thanks thanks !!! Perfect!!! Good groove for you!! Walter from Italy

[@cheekyfeeky8320]

Thx me and my friends started a band and I'm the drummer so I need to learn this

[@kindsey1]

Hows the band going?

[@stephensmith6479]

Spot on

[@handidrummed]

Everyone complaining. Listen to the recording. He doesn't start on the floor tom and he did start fills like this with his left hand, which exactly what is being shown here.

[@gazhughesdrums]

Actually if you listen to the recordImg it quite clearly goes floor tom to rack tom.

[@lewy_g_official]

handidrummed There's a video on YT that has Ringo himself showing us how to play the fill. In the video he goes from floor to rack.

[@sallyyllas8009]

Ringo admitted being on medication (AKA DRUGS!!) during the recording and even said "It has been years since I've played these tunes" Are you deaf?!

[@TheOsfania]

Sally, Sally, Sally. Poor, deaf Sally.

[@sallyyllas8009]

Poor Poor troll

[@jvictorramonda]

Nice job! Nice muffled souding toms... From floor to rack also works and it's a nice groove too.

[@VangeliRock]

Nice instruction. One thing though, I heard Ringo say this, and if you listen you can hear it, the tom tom run in the intro, starts from the lower tom (so the floor tom) and moves upwards the the higher toned tom. Listen to it carefully, you'll hear it.

[@sallyyllas8009]

The amount of tone deaf drummers, who can't hear the original recording and the isolated drums tracks audibly showing the exact way that Drumeo is showing this, IS TOO DAMN HIGH!

[@sallyyllas8009]

The amount of people that have "the gift of hearing every note and nuance" and then notating it correctly in these comments, IS PERFECTLY LOW! :-) -- Let the professionals do their job!

[@sallyyllas8009]

Comparing what he played "NOW" on some youtube video would be like comparing what Lars Ulrich played on Damage Inc during his last concert vs 1986... REALLY?! USE YOUR EARS!

[@DrumeoOfficial]

Preach it! haha!

[@TheOsfania]

Sally, Sally, Sally. Poor, tone deaf Sally. Got shit in his ear holes, interfering with his groove.

[@BADD400]

Sally Yllas I saw Ringo in a video doing it and started with the floor tom first. Than high tom. Cause he is left handed. Playing a right handed kit.

[@clydesdrumbeats]

Could I be the next Ringo star? Hehe 😊 I was finally able to do it! Thanks for this video, learned a lot from your tips!

[@samulikeskitalo2280]

Very helpful video clip. Thank you.

[@marcgroenewegen2022]

Nice video but could we please say that Ringo _is_ a left-handed drummer? AFAIK he's still among us.

[@jimodonnell1339]

Nope. It wasn't Paul that was replaced after the crash. It was Ringo.

[@andrewleventis8341]

Good lesson, But Ringo mentioned that he played left handed on a right handed kit and started from the floor tom and ended on the upper tom on the left...so I think right handed drummers shouldn't start with the left hand...an opinion only.

[@ulissesrocha3365]

Wonderful.

[@classicalbum]

Great video.

[@DavidHernandez-bf3sn]

Great lesson thank you!

[@SparklingRubberDuck]

I've been using a towel on my snare drum for a long time now because of the weird echo in my basement, so it's fun to see towels used as an actual tool here haha

[@im_noobe_097]

Hello its me again and learned new thing again by using towels!!

[@charlottejohnson1823]

i love it. would have liked you to count along. i'm a left handed drummer playing open style so fits perfectly. not sure if you're still ondrumeo. cant find this tutorial.

[@tcg.jc9]

Ringo was a lefty who played righty drums. He went up the toms, not down. It’s a very common mistake when people are learning their songs on the drums. Even professionals like Drumeo I guess didn’t know.

[@oldenmusicianco.4527]

He is going down the drums STARTING with his left hand.

[@murraymclean45]

Murray Creed, what a name!

[@davidtyler2012]

the drum fill is backwards. Ringing is a lefty and starts from the floor Tom to the mounted Tom

[@BuzzingRocks]

Brilliant video. :)

[@EndSnarePercussion]

Love this video. One of our favorite grooves/ songs.

[@jakexisthebest5064]

Thx bro

[@ajparr5585]

Funny that Ringo claims that he went From right to Left on the toms. The way u did it sounds right to me though

[@iwhcyouth1]

Just cause it sounds right doesn't mean it is... check the link below.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ2cYmtuerWXgqs

[@pelgervampireduck]

ringo goes from right to left

[@jimodonnell1339]

ok. this is really great, but there's a echoey thwack thing that happens. Is that Ringo or some other post production thing?

[@raulchevalier5014]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, great post!

[@retxedvlogs7912]

Awesome! I been trying to read a notes from ringo but I don't understand.😅

[@rsjinnis]

Doesn’t Ringo start with the floor tom and roll backwards because he’s left handed??

[@bierlein4934]

very nice cover but did Ringo even have 3 Toms? I thought he only had 2?

[@Darth_Wafer]

Johannes he had 3 toms on the Abbey Road album

[@aqualunga9467]

yes, he used 3. see a Let it Be film.

[@jonathanchesser9561]

Yep....during the sessions for Let It Be and Abbey Road, Ringo used a Ludwig Hollywood set with three toms. On all of the other Beatles' records, he used his kit in black oyster pearl with only two toms.

[@oldenmusicianco.4527]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHTXq56XgZenlbs

[@mortenriisberg]

Ringo would not go "down" his toms, but up. He's lefthanded and has explained that it was easier for him to go up from the floor-tom to the one top-tom.. also no cymbal in the beginning. Here's the track with isolated instruments: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHbGhplmmJd0qK8

[@joerandl9252]

i don’t have a drum kit. i don’t know how to play drums. i’m a guitar player.

[@hwd7]

Like Ringo, I'm left handed and play right handed. Peace🙌🏻

[@chuckstenberg]

when Ringo originally recorded this did he use his 2 tom set or that later 3 tom yellow set as seen in the "Let It Be" move?

[@beatleszilla]

For the White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be, Ringo used the 5 piece Ludwig maple kit seen on the rooftop.

[@jerrymammoser1509]

How in the Hell did you ever end up “hearing” that on the track? If that’s correct, I mean, if what your playing is accurate, you most assuredly Do have one incredible ear, Brother.

[@benadek6703]

It’s easy to decipher if you’re a drummer with a great ear

[@paulnolan8454]

It’s a very simple fill and this guys made it a bit more complicated then it actually is. But Ringo went floor Tom then rack Tom, its very clear in the recording. Only variation is the first two kick drum notes, sometimes played alone or while opening and closing the hi hats.

[@gerardoaguirre3554]

best teacher ever! :D

[@69JayBee]

Anyone know how the iconic 'The Beatles' logo appeared on Ringo's drums?

[@wadewilson335]

Here’s the second way to play the groove: You’re gonna lead with the right hand like usual. But this time, after the first tom note, you’ll hit the next 2 notes with your left hand and then play it normally, so the hands from the ride notes will go something like this: RR RLRL RLLRLRLRLR.

[@johnhall159]

where do you get those 360 towels from as I cant see them on any evans sites

[@zigbug1314]

I am left handed but play a right handed drum kit, leading with my left on the hi-hat would feel so unnatural to me!

[@penguinman0535]

What is the tempo speed he did in the end?

[@danekelly3967]

Where do you get those Evans towels

[@chopper265]

What are those Evan towels called

[@adriangecko6357]

I would be much more interested in a video on the groove at the intro :) Great video though.

[@timothyroberts9673]

Does anyone know what this drum set is?

[@collwinwhrite9947]

It’s a really nice cover it’s just that Ringo played the toms backwards because he was left handed

[@ShartimusPrime]

Pretty sure it was Paul drumming on that recording. And as many already said, just 2 toms instead of the 3.

[@AaronLevyDrums]

ShartimusPrime go watch "let it be" film it was 3 Toms. The kit he used was an Ludwig Maple "Hollywood" Drum Set

[@beatlejim64]

Sorry son...but that's Ringo!!!

[@mrman4645]

ShartimusPrime both statements were wrong. Paul was a shit drummer only drummed on 2 of the tracks, for let it be and Abbey road he used 3

[@oldenmusicianco.4527]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHTXq56XgZenlbs

[@itwillbefridaythe1354]

I am a right handed person but i play come together leading with the left hand and going up the rack just like ringo

[@benjamini8146]

Hi

[@Gfp1995]

I mean when your floor tom is tuned that low, it almost gives a higher note.... which just helps prove the fact that Ringo does in fact go low to high on this

[@sharrythedave4758]

I am familiar with it .

[@SuperAcousticDude]

I dunno why, but watching this video makes me wanna go buy Evans snare heads. Hmm, mysterious.

[@tribecadomo9972]

Good song and good instruction but Ringo only had one Tom not two and it's 12345 floor Tom 6 123 floor tom 4

[@jbondi4963]

What’s up with all this blah blah comments. You want to play it correct right so just play it as Ringo did, so simple!

[@sahayarunav]

Who all are missing the Cobus Jared cover of the song

[@daviddublinski2993]

Didn't Ringo play with one up and one down?

[@oldenmusicianco.4527]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHTXq56XgZenlbs

[@francoa2197]

Ringo played it from floor tom to rack tom.

[@tucstwo]

Cool groove...but that was the best muting system you could come up with? Towels? The towels sound like shit. Nothing like the original recording.

[@SkyFox-vh2dt]

2:57

[@m3assetsllc439]

Thanks for sharing. Richie, however, will likely never be confused with great drummers like Bonham, Hal Blaine or Jeff Pocaro.

[@TheOsfania]

You know not of what you speak. Ringo is the most musical drummer alive. But if you prefer to speak of dead drummers, please move on to Joe Morello. Bonham couldn't carry Joe's stick bag. Or Buddy Rich's. Or JoJo Mayer's.

[@geoffreydlang]

Great transcription. However... I'm *pretty sure* that the 2nd-to-last note of the descending triplet fill should be played on the 2nd rack tom (as opposed to Murray's placing it on the 1st rack tom). Otherwise...fab!!

[@johnfoster535]

...Ha Ha!!.....I thought so,TOO....but , was WRONG !! Murray is CORRECT !! Play the isolated drum track on youtube, slow it way down, and you will eventually hear it. Most of the time the bass guitar interferes on that exact note,but, on a few of them you can clearly hear Ringo,( or, Paul ). hitting the next to last note on the high tom. His left hand never leaves the high to during the tom fill.

[@geoffreydlang]

I just re-listened...I still hear the 2nd to last note sounding different compared to the sound of the hi tom. If played back at TOO slow a speed, I find that accurate audio resolution becomes vague. Listening at 3/4 speed is closer to the resolution at normal speed . However, I am willing to concede that it's *possible* Ringo's left hand stayed on the hi tom a 'couple' of times during the the 'keeper' take. ;)

[@tcg.jc9]

First off, don’t make it seem like the towels were your idea. Ringo himself put towels on his drums in this song as well as many others, and did a wide array of other clever things to make different sounds and beats. Also, this is something everyone gets wrong...he went up the toms, not down. It starts with the floor tom to tom 2 and then 1.

[@mikewilliamsii6478]

what is the song at the end

[@AaronLevyDrums]

It's a play-along within Drumeo, played by Scott Pellogrom

[@jesseschneider3601]

Just learning drums.. Didn't Ringo only play with tom and floor tom? N

[@oldenmusicianco.4527]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHTXq56XgZenlbs

[@kaybhee6]

gooot,,, but how to sound same as recording

[@deepkushagra]

thanks, please also share a lesson on Chick Corea's Got A Match

[@redicendia1355]

the thing is that ringo doesnt use the top right tom.

[@oldenmusicianco.4527]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHTXq56XgZenlbs

[@salpiccirillo640]

Come up from the floor tom, Starr did it left handed. You can hear it on the recording, just listen

[@udrugastandard4664]

I just hit like 1000

[@TheWhocares1981]

one and trip-el-it and trip-el-it trip-el-it trip-el-it and

[@MYCHANNEL-on1cp]

hmm, how come eveyone starts with the 2 cymbal hits first? i just cant hear that in the original? what am i missing

[@GusyebandBand]

Tx 4 tutorial

[@hatmanmx]

Doesn´t sound like Ringo intro.

[@thephysiopractor]

Hah, all the towels.

[@roberth.5185]

Sorry.. but the 7 year old kid from 2014 has you beat.

[@romario74]

i hear it very slowly.

[@alkohn1844]

Drummers are like 10 Rabbis being asked the same question. You'll get 50 different answers, lol. It's amazing how so many drummers here one drummer part so many different ways instead of really listening. Even the best drummers get this one wrong including the drummer in this video. Sorry for the rant.

[@abhisarlal4056]

which are those heads?

[@funkysc100]

evans 360 obviously

[@Dutchyman]

Abhisar Lal Obviously? Some people are not obsessed with cymbals or just aren't familiar with them...

[@SlimChanceDubs]

Abhisar Lal looks like some Evans drum mute blankets. probably about 600$ per blanket.

[@sallyyllas8009]

TOWELS DERP.... $15.00

[@SlimChanceDubs]

Sally Yllas satire