Can you guess the Beatles song from the drum part? 

Ah, that's why you factored for 75% correct. Then you had the 20% off as a reserve and the viewer would be happy for 40%.

@@_J_A_G_ 😝

Love love love love love this video and this "I can name that tune in X notes" quiz! Your music is beautiful. 🙂 God Bless you Beatles (or as Leo McKearn said in Help - BeeAHTles).

I got four right and I'm very proud of that!!!

The *first* drum fill in #9 is actually the first thing in the track!

Well said. The Ringo detractors can do one..................

Very easy for me. 20/20 but I am a Beatle fan and drummer 😉

Ringo hardly played on any of the studio recordings! Sure he played on stage, but the Beatles only played certain songs live. George Martin used session drummers. Bernard Purdie drummed on 21 Beatle songs! Look it up. Bernard Purdie!

​@@lucytupper69 I looked it up, and you are *sort of* right. Immediately after Pete Best was fired , George Martin brought in Bernard Purdie to do the drum tracks for the first batch of recordings, because they hadn't officially hired Ringo yet. Ringo played on everything after that.

@@haroldbelfast Look into it a bit further.

Another fun fact: Paul suggested the _Ticket to Ride_ pattern. Not that Ringo wasn't fully capable. But the Beatles always went with the best idea, whoever had it.

Can't even spell his name right

Not just that. I had a boss that remembered when he first heard Beatles on the radio. It was the loudest, heaviest thing he ever heard. I guess he was referring to the intro to "She loves you". 😀

Suggesting is one thing, creating is another!

Actually that would be a lot of fun. Even he might not be able to recognize his previous work.

0/20

It was a little bit difficult understanding songs, but Ringo was a genius, don't you think the same?

I got 1 - Get Back And I was a beatlemaniac, lol

Me too 🤩

one thing about Ringo was his ability to keep a solid beat. Moon was great in his own world but probably couldn't ever play with another band.... at least not with the same flare he used with The Who.

Like Mike Campbell he always played the exact right and interesting part for any song

"A band's as good as its drummer" said Ginger Baker, somebody who well and truly knew that. Chilli Pepper's drummer Chad Smith didn't seem to understand that properly, asking Ginge in an interview in 2019 if he thought Ringo was "any good", to which he replied "Any good??? - he was the drummer in the fucking Beatles mate!". Likewise, he wouldn't have a bad word said about Charlie Watts either: Ringo and Charlie did the drummer's job perfectly, as explained by Ginge: "Your job is to make the other guys sound good, that's your gig." Ringo is the master of tempo, and his punctuation perfect, the fills in "Day in the Life", "Strawberry Fields", "Something" etc,etc. are as melodic as Lennon, McCartney and Harrison's tunesmithery, you can't play "I Feel Fine", "Ticket to Ride", "Get Back", "I Want You...she's so heavy" or any of it really without learning your rudiments and developing your technique, which Ringo already had in place when he joined. He was actually the Beatles best player.

@@IanYoung-ko4ws I agree to a point he’s my favorite in that band but George is flawless on guitar. He’s never live hit a sour note his band mates have stated he’s the best musician in the band. Though they’re all above star level

@@indianajones5037 George was an utterly unique guitarist, playing melody rather than flash, not tied to scales and seemingly incapable of, as you said, playing a sour note. You're probably right he was the best musician there actually, and he shared that unorhodox quality with Ringo, who was left-handed playing a right-handed drum setup. His contributions to Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy", the gorgeously melodic leslie-phased intro and slide solo (a great tune in itself) made it my fave post-Beatles solo (well, duo actually) single, and I think he probably wrote most of it too.

Merci beaucoup. All the Ringo detractors haven't created drum parts for more best selling songs than he has done.

Nice selection you put together. Thanks.

Great job Charlie, I really struggled only got four, including my favourite, In My Life, would follow but don’t do Insta.

Good job. Even the half-dozen we sttruggled with were, "Of course(!)" Ringo seemingly invented compositional drumming in pop music.

Good job Charlie. I was surprised I got 19/20. Great quiz. Slacking a bit there David! ;)

EXACTLY! Thank you!!

Absolutely!!

I think its a bit of an overstatement. I think the guitar riff to Day Tripper is more important than the drum part, just as one example the pops to mind. I think bass and drums are less important to a memorable pop song than lead vocals and lead guitar, on the whole. Every part is crucial but if you HAVE to decide what elements are the most critical to a songs identity then drums and bass parts are surely less important.

@@NowhereMan7 I bet you lick the icing off cakes and leave the rest.

@@NowhereMan7 It really depends on the type of music. There are entire genres where vocals are not the main thing, and have no lead guitar (maybe you have more than one guitar but they all do the same thing, or use other guitars just to add very minor details on the background). Some forms of Stoner rock comes to mind, but not all of it, of course. Mainly the most psychedelic ones that rely on a bass to carry a melody, some jazzy drums and the guitar(s) for textures.

From a 23 year old to you, what a blessing we've both been given through their music!

Yeah I'm 64 and got 7 right.

I'm 67 and I've followed the Beatles forever as well. I was able to get 9 out of 20.

The problem is with the digital sound of the fake drums not even near the great sound by Ringo recorded with real instruments

@@TheReverb1 I assumed they were isolated drum tracks, but after re-listening, you are right. Some have different sounds and even incorrect timing. (Ticket To Ride, especially)

It's funny because I was thinking the exact same thing. Ringo's toms were often tuned specifically for songs and his kick drum had a very specific, flat sound.

Same here.

Agreed. I'm sure I would have recognized the snare sound from In My Life.

I agree. The drums were not even tuned to the right pitch, which is a huge part of the sound, then a tonne of reverb, completely flat dynamics and none of Ring’s time feel…

Timbre threw me off a bit, but the count in threw me a off lot more!

They let Best go, not because Ringo was better, but because nearly everyone was better. Best was a terrible drummer.

Pete Worst

John Lennon was once asked if Ringo was one of the greatest drummers alive.. he said “Ringo isn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles” 😂

​@Chris Cobb You must know that was Jasper Carrott, British comedian from Birmingham, long after Beatles broke up, telling a joke. Or you know absolutely nothing about Beatles

The official reason is he was "too good looking", but yeah, good choice with Ringo. Shows to go ya that the greatest music makers are about the music, not appearances or flash or other stuff.

Part of the challenge ✌️✌️

I'm agree with those that think of Ringo as a drummer/composer. Interesting!

His drumming ability has always been pretty good too. He was never a flamboyant drummer, he always serves the song. He has good fills, but one of the most impressive things is actually how he keeps the time. He plays simple beats, but... The guy on the channel The-Art-Of-Guitar made a video called "My drummer said Ringo sucks, so I dared him to play this Beatles Beat!"... The song was Act Naturally from the album Help. The same shuffle beat throughout the song. It's a tough one. The song "What Goes On" is even harder, a shuffle beat with a different kick pattern.

I prefer Bonham and moon, but those guys would NOT work in the Beatles. Ringo was perfect for their style of music.

"Drumming isn't a sport." Great quote.

I guess Ringo was skilled enough that someone had a hard time replicating the 5 stroke rolls in "Twist and Shout" without resorting to a machine?

One of the best illustrations of what makes Ringo great. He serves the song perfectly, always.

And "Something".

You delusionally THINK you don't pay attention to the drums. Your brain notices, it's the most important component of a rock song.

@@annaclarafenyo8185 Very true! I couldn't consciously recite drum parts though, as I'm sure actual drummers could.

@@mebammeI feel the same way….I thought I was going to do good on this with the first one being so easy. Was really hard quiz for me. Give me the guitar riffs and I can get 20/20 with ease 😂

Me too but I didn‘t get She Said She Said right.

And I am a drummer too, I would be in a Tribute Band too, I am in a band but we play many songs but being in a tribute band would be really cool, definitely!

19 here too - unfortunately that was 19 wrong! (only got tomorrow never knows!)

@@danielroach5415 lol!! Keep listening to the Beatles and you would get it all!!!! =)

I'm sure I've listened to all those songs hundreds of times over the decades, but not for a while. I did very poorly.

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I still have my 1964 Jazz combo set in Oyster Black. I got 20 out of 20. bragging

Ringo IS amazing

@@W1LKUV when’s the last time he dropped heat

@@ghandig8771 He's still alive is his point, and that's not really relevant since he was never a songwriter.

@@ThisBirdHasFlown took the bait

Bro any good drummer can be recognized by his song, not jyst ringo. Though ringo is great

@@ractmo Ringo created more iconic drum parts during the Beatles short career that most drummers do in a lifetime ... Sometimes the drummer you thought created a part wasn't even in the studio ... Bun E. Carlos has a great yarn about crediting Hal Blaine for a Beach Boys part at a drum workshop only to have Frank DeVito come up afterwards and say ' Actually it was ME on that track ... Earl Palmer had subbed it to Hal , he couldn't do it and Frank did the date ...

@@weehudyy bro I get it what you're saying, but the reality is they were not the greatest outside the beatles. They were at top as a band but in their individual careers none of them top in any category, not john and paul are the greatest songwriter or ringo the best drummer in any charting. Sometimes beatles fans should accept the reality that Beatles are not the only best musicians, they were the pioneer and the upcoming musicians takes inspiration from them but that doesn't means that the generation came after them cannot top them, especially in drumming. But they still tops in song writing duo!!

@@ractmo You miss the whole point , it's about the song dude ... The Beatles weren't great musicians but Ringo made drum parts where you can actually tell the song just by his bits ... I could probably pick Zepp tunes by just Bonham's drum parts , but there are bugger all others . Sure I could probably pick some drummers by their tracks alone but , and here is the point , NOT the song . Incidentally , most recorded music in the last fifteen/twenty years is made or manipulated by machines , no matter who played the drums ... it has been digitised, quantised , looped , samples added ... That is the way music is made and marketed now .

@@weehudyy man so many songs can be guessed by their drum, what you are on about?? John Bonham, Keith Moon, etc.. are way above Ringo's league. And they were also from the same era!! My fav band is Beatles but no doubt about that Ringo is not the greatest drummer, although he could be for you. But the majority of the people won't believe he is the greatest though he was legendary. No magazine put him even in top 10, and please don't say that they maybe hating Beatles because John and Paul are at 2nd and 3rd position in songwriters lists!!!

Agreed. Ringo's distinctive sound is part of it.

yeah, marshmellow toms...

plus some of them were straight up wrong

I'm glad someone else pointed this out. I thought I was going crazy on Twist and Shout. @@jakeroach77

And it didn't help to have that fill after the count-in, making it hard when to know to start listening for the actual Ringo part. Poor planning by the creator.

Haha. Me too.

Same here 😂

I also did exactly the same thing 😂

Exactly the same thing lol

Same here, one of only two that I got.

Thank you for being worst than me

Twice as many as me 😂

You kicked my ass... I only got 2/20 lol

​@@TheKnobCalledTone. Same!

@@marclaforest3282 I get a lot of practice at that sort of thing...

Same here, after 40 years😂

Except it wasn't Ringo, it was a drum machine. Ringo's actual drum tracks sound way better.

Wow that's impressive, well done! 👏

Which were the other 2 you didn't pick?

Exactly

Wow! So many varied beats, and all on the simplest of kits: snare, tom, floor tom and of course base drum. An artist indeed.

Paul came up with the drum pattern on Ticket to Ride

I did 19/20 as well but didn‘t guessed She Said She Said right.

Same!!! Such an underrated song. Every part is so perfect even on its own.

Ringo was emulating the drumming in Ray Charles "What I say"

Same here. I think the drummers got the most right.

How is he underrated? He’s selling out stadiums with his solo band…

I know. It's a meme to just say, "ringo's underrated" but the truth is he's one of the most highly regarded musicians in the history of popular music.

@@playlistmaker90125People love him for being Ringo but I don’t think everyone always realizes his actual drumming chops

@@turnleftaticeland he literally has no drumming chops whatsoever. Just barely enough to get by…

@@playlistmaker90125 Maybe “chops” in the traditional sense was the wrong word. Musicality, rather

I recognize it from the lone hi-hat hits in the intro.

What do mean isolated from the real songs? Isn't that what they were?

@@matthewklein660 The drum tone is way different from the originals, and the feel is off, too. Definitely not Ringo's playing.

Well, these weren't isolated. They were recreated on computer.

@@tallmn1957 I mean, yeah, but same thing. I’m commenting more on the patterns he did rather than the performance itself.

@@BareBandSubscription Yeah, I get it. 👍👍

Thanks! ✌️✌️

No he isnt. Cut it out.

@@JoshuaKimbrough in terms of actual drumming skills, Ringo's no Keith Moon, but he gave each song the exact type of drumming that worked and suited it. And he wasn't a half bad drummer either. You can't say the drumming on 'She said she said' or 'Rain' wasn't skillful.

This is the best illustration of his style that I’ve seen yet, and, while I’m no drummer, this has really given me a whole new impression for his style and how creative he is. How many drummers could have this sort of repertoire that you could recognize the song from only the drums?

@@JoshuaKimbrough Yes, yes he is. YOU cut it out

@@JFFM730Keith Moon didn’t earn such a positive reputation by playing skilfully.

Omg yes! Would love to play a baseline version of this game. This was awesome though, great job shining a light on Ringo’s playing. Managed 17/20, the parts are so iconic.

i'm at song #10 and i only got 3 right hahaha. i pay much attention to bass and guitar when listenibg to beatles lmao i'll edit this when i finish for my overall score - ... still 3.

I did just one wrong: She Said She Said, there are so many songs with similar beats like Its All Too Much but there is a bit of Hi-Hat in it.

Great job!

Thank you!

Yeah I think I guessed that one quicker than any of the others

I feel the same way. It's a pain in the ass when it doesn't sound similar.

Funny that Paul actually came up with both those drum patterns

Those aren't real drums :(

In the best way◇

Well, yeah…