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30 October 2024
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John’s voice on A Day In A Life breaks in a really interesting way, like an extremely rapid vibration that adds a lot of inflection to certain words like “film” during “I saw a film today oh boy”

Ringo’s drumming on Penny Lane is masterful. Come Together is always cited as the best example of how hard he can groove a song without doing much at all, I present the snare on Penny Lane . Minimalist but extremely in the pocket. The overall production on that song is as good as any song ever. 

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31 October 2024
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sir walter raleigh said
John’s voice on A Day In A Life breaks in a really interesting way, like an extremely rapid vibration that adds a lot of inflection to certain words like “film” during “I saw a film today oh boy”

Ringo’s drumming on Penny Lane is masterful. Come Together is always cited as the best example of how hard he can groove a song without doing much at all, I present the snare on Penny Lane . Minimalist but extremely in the pocket. The overall production on that song is as good as any song ever. 

  

Certainly the sound of Ringo’s snare is perfect, and he deploys a satisfying emphasis on it throughout, 98% of the time just accenting the upbeat (or is it the downbeat — I always get those mixed up).  However, and this might be as blasphemous as a Catholic saying the Pope is wrong, but I’m sometimes disappointed in Ringo failing to use the hi-hat, ride cymbal, and crash cymbal.  As I listen to Penny Lane , and it occurs to me, I’m missing the inclusion of hi-hat, ride cymbal, and crash cymbal.  The only hi-hat I can detect is occasionally used with one hit in synch with the snare.  Otherwise, it seems utterly absent — either due to Ringo avoiding them, or the engineers basically minimizing them so much you can’t hear them.

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There are a few Ringo tracks where he does seem to be doing very little; “Revolution ” is another. I don’t know whether this would’ve been Ringo’s choice, or a suggestion by songwriters Paul or John, or some combination of those…

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Ringo in “I’m Only Sleeping “, the way he ends each verse with 5 glorious crash-cymbal hits – a very splashy sound, and especially effective & appropriate while it’s emphasizing the phrase “…float upstream.” (I imagine the unusual activity of floating up-stream would necessarily involve some splashing…)

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The intro of I Should Have Known Better where, for want of a better description, it seems to slip a gear.

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