Excellent clip with excellent drumming! Thanks for sharing!

Quite some time ago, I saw Ringo being interviewed by Elvis Costello. Ringo said that the reason most drummers couldn't replicate his work on "Come Together" was that being a natural lefty, he found it more comfortable to start on his floor tom and work his way up to the tenor tom on the run. He told Elvis that if he tried it in the conventional way, he would end up with a stiff neck and back! I've tried it Ringo style and being a righty, found it very difficult to say the least!

Brian

Great clip. The sound is right but Ringo actually moves is right hand down the toms to the floor. The left hand stays on the first tom and the right moves down. I have the actual drum track and have studied it. I can't write notation here but is the hand patern.

Cym__R_R

HH________RLRL

TT1_____________LRLRL_L _L - Left hand stays on this first tom

TT2__________________R_R

FT_______________________R

BB___B_B

People say Ringo only used 2 toms but when I listen to it I can clearly hear 3. Both toms, Floor Tom and Snare were muted with towels.

The drum fill into the keyb'd solo and the outro looks like this.

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HH________RLRL

TT1_____________L__L

TT2______________R_____LL

FT___________________RR

BB___B_B

yes I know how ringo played it, this was just a video to show the techniques used to get the sounds that he did. thx for sharing.

YAH! I realized that when I watched to whole video. I thought it was the entire song. My Apologises. No offence intended. The video is great. You captured the sound perfectly. I did a version of come together also with towels on my drums years ago and put it on Youtube. It's not there anymore.

Always wondered how and why Ringo came up with the idea of putting towels on his drums. It completely works for this song. To have the drums wide open wouldn't have worked. They would have been to powerful for a song that is very mellow.

Great drums by the way. For a second I thought they were Ludwigs. But they are Rogers aren't they????

Thxs...

We do the Stevie song as well..

The lil tip on come together will help me....

Scott, were playin this Sat in Streetsville (Cuchulainns) on queen St...10/2....no cover.!

Playin one of my vintage Rogers...come on out...you'll enough the tunes...

Just seen this, great stuff, I don't mean to be dumb but that was you playing yeah?

I like the playing only on the snare part in purple haze (independent of ride or hi hat) sometimes when I'm playing in swing style Ive been trying to do that (in a roundabout way) it makes a change from just doing normal ride-snare ting ta ting, I would use the rims and cymbal etc in a more lateral way, as long as it fits the style of course! Yes that Tom Tom riff can be awkward on come together but you did it well good drumming mate.

No this isn't me playing.