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The Beatles Drum Collection | Drum Recorded Versions Sheet Music Book for Drummers | Note for Note Transcriptions for Students Teachers and Fans | Rock Drumming Practice Guide for Lessons Performances
(Drum Recorded Versions). This transcription book lets drummers examine Ringo's note-for-note tracks to 25 classics by The Beatles: Back in the U.S.S.R. * Birthday * Can't Buy Me Love * Come Together * Eight Days a Week * Get Back * Help! * Helter Skelter * I Saw Her Standing There * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Paperback Writer * Revolution * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band * Something * Twist and Shout * more!
128 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2000
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February 22, 2022
As with any such book, made up of music transcriptions, one might quibble, as indeed I do, about certain interpretations of particular passages. Perhaps especially when it comes to things like fills - and with Ringo this is doubly true, for several reasons: inc. both his being a lefty playing a right-handed kit, and his idiosyncratic phrasing (the latter a result at least in part of the former) - but overall this is a very useful book. I and several of my pupils have it, and it's great as both starting point and reference with Beatles/Ringo material.
Some tracks one might like - Here Comes The Sun, for example - aren't included, whilst others that one might not have any great call for are. But fortunately many of the most famous are, including numerous with very typical signature Ringo type parts. At least one of these (no doubt more than just the one!), Come Together, is a case in point re the interpretation issue; but Even Ringo, playing this on a video on YouTube, does it in a way that doesnt tally with what one hears on the recording.
So, bearing in mind that song selection and interpretation affect these somewhat, I'd still say that this is a very, very useful book. I still like to do my own charts for Ringo/Beatles tracks, regardless. But having these for working with pupils is, er... Fab!
Some tracks one might like - Here Comes The Sun, for example - aren't included, whilst others that one might not have any great call for are. But fortunately many of the most famous are, including numerous with very typical signature Ringo type parts. At least one of these (no doubt more than just the one!), Come Together, is a case in point re the interpretation issue; but Even Ringo, playing this on a video on YouTube, does it in a way that doesnt tally with what one hears on the recording.
So, bearing in mind that song selection and interpretation affect these somewhat, I'd still say that this is a very, very useful book. I still like to do my own charts for Ringo/Beatles tracks, regardless. But having these for working with pupils is, er... Fab!
March 27, 2016
Great to work through this and realise I could a) still play a lot of them and b) still read drum charts.
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