“He listens…and knows exactly what to play”. That’s the most important quality to have as a drummer.

Ringo was an artist of feel rather than technicality

Ringo is great because he always plays what the song needs. He knows how to not overdo literally anything

As Thelonious Monk once said, “I practice every time I play.”

Ringo’s drumming fit the Beatles. That’s what counts.

George himself also gave the songs exactly what they needed. They all did. That's why The Beatles are so legendary.

I can't imagine any other drum track by any other drummer in ANY Beatles song surpassing or even equalling what Ringo did. Plus he's a very humble, likable character who doesn't take himself too seriously. There's not many rock musicians out there that fit that mold.

Everyone who knows nothing about drumming thinks Ringo isn't good. Anyone that knows a bit knows he's just phenomenal. Maybe not the absolute peak of technical ability nor does he know the theory and yet in spite of all that, he performs and writes amazingly

The bad thing is he didn't practice. The good thing is he didn't need to practice.

George saying that he "could be quite good" if he practiced his guitar is a shining example of humility. George, you were "quite good". Quite good, indeed.

Paul, did you ever use a click track? “Yes, his name was Ringo.” He is a “musician’s” dream drummer.

Ringo always, ALWAYS, played to enhance a song and that’s what makes him a truly great drummer.

The chemistry of the four sparked a creativity that was unmatched. It's been, and will be recognized for generations.

Ringo marked an epoch in drumming history. He is solid and a great time keeper and creative and imaginative. Just listen to songs like I Feel Fine and Come Together for the originality and substance of Ringo’s drumming. Ringo made the Beatles work and they never fired him because he got the job done. Everyone who’s ever listened to the Beatles music has recognized that Ringo is solid whether they admit it or not. There was only one Beatles and only one Ringo and it worked. Thanks Ringo. We will always love you.

Ringo’s drumming is fantastic because he always knows when NOT to play …. Absolute perfection 😚

His fills in A Day In The Life are brilliant. Just ask Phil Collins.

I’ve been a drummer for 30 plus years. Ringo is an amazing drummer. Any real drummer will say the same. He’s very innovative.

After watching “Get Back” Ringo’s role was crucial in The Beatles, he was the mature voice and somewhat a fatherly figure

Say what you want about Ringo but he came up with some very unique grooves ... He deserves respect!

The Beatles songs wouldn’t be what they are without him. He brings a lot to the table, the subtleties in his rhythms add to the songs so much. Drummers are almost always underrated within bands but people don’t realise, a good drummer help write the songs and dictate where the energy ebbs and flows within the track.

What a wonderful saying from George, not only does he Express his respect for Ringo, but he humbles himself on his own expertise , you'll never bring four lads together to do what they accomplished in 10 years

Few drummers can claim a signature sound. When you hear it you know who is drumming. Ringo is one.

Ringo plays what goes naturally to the dynamics of the song , he has an incredible sense of timing like no other!! I can always tell his 😅signature style due to the way his drumming seamlessly works for the song!! He is highly respected and held in very high esteem by real drummers!!! ☮️❤️😊

“All ya gotta do is act naturally” 😊

Simplicity can be perfection. The guitar riffs we remember aren't the crazy complex ones. They're the blues solos, simple and profound. Drumming can be the same. More complicated does not mean better.

Ringo is also unique in that he is left handed but plays a right handed set. This makes his sound hard to duplicate.

Watching The Beatles: Get Back highlights this. John and Paul would come into a session with an idea for a song, then after hearing it only a few times George and Ringo came up with their parts, and quite often they were pretty close to what eventually went on the album

Ringo has a blessed gift for just knowing. He knows what sounds right. All the Beatles had that gift. They didn't really know how to read or write music. They just knew what sounded right.

Small talk from small people. Anyone who really listens to the Beatles knows how brilliant his drumming was. Not some flashy showing off but integral and essential to such brilliant performances. Many years ago a good friend and drummer helped me understand this 😂

Ringo is a drummer who plays with feel...that's what makes him great.

George became one if the best rock guitar players by the late-60’s in my opinion

Ringo was mad underrated. He kept the time and groove with The Beatles like no other drummer could.

He was one of the first drummers to integrate his part into the arrangement, rather than just playing a beat.

WTF are you talking about? Drummers don't crap on Ringo, anywhere!! Ringo makes things swing, and is totally unique and legendary. NO ONE has called him pale or plain in 30+ years.

I love his solo on In The End. I still play it 20x in a row.

Not only did he drum but I feel he helped keep the band together for as long as possible in his own little way as not just anyone as mild mannered as him could do so

He was among the first of the Rock Drummers, you can't say his shit is basic when it's the original.

They are creative naturals and Ringo Starr is a very original leader in his field.

Ringo's plain drum patterns just happen to be some of the most memorable & iconic drum patterns. This infuriates a lot of second rate drummers.

Whoever thinks that Ringo is not a good drummer, knows nothing about drumming or making music. Ringo is a legend!!! One of the best drummers of all time! I've been playing drums for over 30 years in the genres of jazz, pop and rock , and I still get the chills when I listen to him play.

Anybody that criticizes Ringo for his drumming style obviously doesn’t know anything about playing drums along with other musicians.

Well, I suppose he wasn't Ginger Baker or Keith Moon, but he seemed to be exactly what the Beatles needed ergo, he was perfect!!

Ringo isn’t just a drummer, he is a musician.

His drumming is perfect for the songs. They don’t need to be over the top and wild. They need to fit and they all fit PERFECTLY.

his patterns were creative

Ringo and Brian Downey from Thin Lizzy are two of the most underrated Rock drummers in my opinion

"I know I could be quite good, I just don't practice enough." Says one of the greatest guitar players of all time.

We all want a brother that's real like this

I play drums...and Ringo is my favorite ...iconic..plays for the song!

Ringos the 🐐 it makes me happy seeing him get his praise and flowers even 60 something years later🥁💐

What most people don't know about Ringo is he is left handed but plays drums right handed & if you know anything about playing the drums it goes against every fiber of your being to play swith handed.

Misleading title

I'd put up the drumming in Rain against any other pop song. Awesome

Whether he's good or not, he's the coolest and chillest rockstar ever, and to this day all he wants is peace and love ✌️

Like I always say, " practice is what put these lines in my face, LET'S JUST DO IT "..😎👌

The best drummers play EXACTLY what the song needs. He did just that.

Based on the consistency and perfection required to produce good recordings during that time, I'd say staying in the pocket all the time is good enough.

Anyone doubting Ringo’s drumming just watch some early Beatles clips. He’s a madman on those drums.

The Beatles are a perfect band . All complement each other to greatness. Iconic!

If you knock Ringo, you don’t know music.

YES!!!! I had no idea George said this but I've put my guitar down for months or more periodically throughout my journey and I've absolutely benefited from it. I always called it :"letting the creative waters dam". Every time I come back it's a fresh creative palette. Helps with muscle memory too.

All classes are simple, classical music ( comparing to jazz) clasic radio, classic art, classic books. the Beatles are the raw begins of an entire wave of music the ripples are still going today. He sounded simple he invented a lot and inspired most the people I like now. Classic

Go watch the YT vid of the Beatles playing - RAIN - then you will see and hear how damn good and talented and innovative he was (and still is). When you watch that entire video (B&W) - he had just been with the other 3 about 2 years - still quite young. Watching him work he looks lazy, but really he is very very efficient and looks like a duck paddling his ass off - and not a ripple in the water - you’ll see.

My favorite Ringo story is the one he tells about where or when he got the idea for "Octopus Garden", then recording it with the Beatles. Pure Ringo. As far as drumming goes, he considers himself highly creative in the studio, something I have never doubted, with his main weakness being his lefthandness, limiting his drum breaks. He is also creative with language or words, having inspired "Hard Day's Night, and "Tomorrow Never Knows," among others. And still find his drumming on TNK, some fine wildass studio drumming. Not to mention his epic miminalist drum solo on Abbey Road. A drummer's drummer.

He was one of the first to use matched grip. When people in the US saw him play on TV for the first time it changed drumming forever since so many emulated his grip.

I don't know any of Ringo's contemporaries who said his drumming was pale.

Drummers love Ringo’s playing .. he’s awesome

Ringo was perfect fit for the Beatles So nice to see these clips of the Beatles. 👏👏👏👍

You were one of the greatest George! and still underated, thank you George for sharing your gift, it will last forever, You are sadly missed!

Great his idea never blast out paul or John with flash loud drumming 😘❤️🍏

when was these things said? I have heard many and I mean many of people, musicians that are regarded as some of the best,talking high praises about his playing and his style of playing. I don't agree with this at all

That's the greatness of the Beatles. They may not have been the greatest guitarists, drummers or singers, but all four of them were tremendous musicians and it showed in their songs

I've never heard a musician ever say anything bad about Ringo's drumming.

He literally just basically said he’s great without even practicing lmao

Dingo is the human metronome. Many of his beats are unique and his tempo is spot on.

George was so kind 🙏💜

The beats that he plays sound simple but people don’t understand how hard it is to hold a beat at the right tempo for that long without messing up

Ringo was a great feel player, that played for the song with out over kill .

That's one of the reasons why i love george. He's a really caring and loving person. You just have to get to know him. And ask the right questions. Along with just going with what your heart and feelings tell you about him.

In over 300 Beatles recordings Ringo Starr played drums not as a percussive instrument by itself, 4/4, but as a musical instrument played together with bass, two guitars and vocals, each as different as the different songs themselves!! He never just kept time and added accent, but played notes as part of the song's melody itself!! Never repeated any single song's drum part, but played each song entirely seperate!! He is perhaps one of the most underrated of all rock drummers!! A brilliance all his own, and in a large part most often overlooked, and strangely eclipsed by masters like Ginger Baker, John Bonham, Keith Moon et al, made the bed upon which the Bestles songs were crafted to become the unique music it still remains today!!

Ringo focused on the grove, not the drums. Not only did he play what anyone could play, but he played what everyone could love.

Ringo was the best drummer in Liverpool. Solid time, has a great feel and created memorable hooks.

What George was describing is actually profound insight to any musician. What he really was saying is it’s the SPIRIT not the practice. If you took practice and the technicalities as the defining attributes, then sure, both ringo and George were “bad” in that sense, but the Beatles proves that technicality is only an avenue, not the ONLY avenue to a successful song or melody or beat or rhythm. George was suavely giving priceless advice on how to capture SPIRIT with music. Which is what music is all about. A spirit about whatever that you hear and feel through the sound waves. This can be done with a spoon and a voice. Music is so much more than technicalities, and Ringo knew the spirit of it like almost no others.

I'm the same way as a guitarist and a drummer I appreciate these guys so much practice makes perfect but perfect it's unattainable so just play from the heart

I'm not even a big fan of the Beatles but recognize that he is one heck of a drummer. There are a few songs in particular that even some of the best drummers would have a tough time keeping up with in terms of endurance and stamina.

Who was the drummer in Tomorrow Never Knows then? That song is brilliant and extremely influential. And it’s the drums that makes the song so good.

Thats humble and makes sense. They were so busy in such a short time. Also they wrote so much music. Had he been more technical and complicated, he would have made his own job much harder. Look how chill he looks all the time. Like hes got a drumstick in 2 hands, tea in another, newspaper in another, reading the sunday funnys.

I got chills down my spine hearing George say that. I go months without picking up my guitar but the lonely handful of days I do I play, it is for seven hours straight. Okay Maybe like 10 times a year.. those 70 hours add up.

Two words to describe Ringo's genius: Come together

Ringo might not have been the most flamboyant drummer; but his Timing was flawless.

Ringo knew what songs needed a 4/4 backbeat and what songs needed some weird out there stuff, and thats what made him great in my mind

This was actually a high compliment if you listen. The “flaw” of not practicing he also gave to himself… and he’s prob say Lennon too. And we all know that little Liverpool garage band wasn’t too bad musicianship-wise!

He matched the drumming in here comes the sun, which was awesome.

Ringo served the songs and did it fucking brilliantly

I like that idea. There are players and musicians. Some people play with their fingers, some play with their mind

As a (very) amateur drummer who loves to play, I believe I was born left-handed. According to my mother, I was switched to being a righty when I was very young, because conventional thinking a hundred years ago said being a lefty was no good. When I started playing drums, I found it easier to cross my midline and go around the kit from right to left. I think I’ve heard Ringo say something similarly. All this to say, I’ve always loved Ringo’s drumming - it’s so solid and consistently creative.

I've been playing drum and percussion for over 50 years. Ringo doesn't play complicated but he has a feel that is near-impossible to duplicate. He's a legend.

Across-the-board the board, Ringo and George both ooze of charisma and talent simply they are the pinnacle musical creativity.

Ringo still has jet black hair. Pretty amazing.

Please name one drummer that could have played as MAGNIFICENTLY as Ringo did on A Day in the Life!!!?