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To: Jane Long

As a former drummer, I will tell you that almost all drummers I know think Ringo is a great drummer. He had an amazing “drag” where he was just enough behind the beat to add this weird soul. I didn’t know until recently that he was left handed, and that all his rolls are exactly backwards. Still, guitarists and others don’t think he’s any good-—because they expect a lot of flash. But Ringo knew every single beat in the world-—cha cha, Jamaican-—and his line on “Tomorrow Never Knows” is still a classic. I learned to drum from Ringo by putting on records, and could eventually play anything from rock to a waltz to cha cha.


1,064 posted on 06/23/2016 7:13:34 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Thanks for the ‘insider’ info :)

Good info.


1,109 posted on 06/23/2016 7:19:51 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: LS
He had an amazing “drag” where he was just enough behind the beat to add this weird soul.

Yabut...

Can he do a flam, a flat tire, or a double paradiddle?

1,330 posted on 06/23/2016 7:50:07 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Canadians can't be our President.)
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