Ringo's left-handed drum fills.

George was clearly profoundly impressed, given the astonishing prominence they're given in the mix on some of the early records.

 

exactly and it's amazing.
i'm 'destro' and a long(looong) time ago when i 'inverted' the drumms i could not play...i had impression that my brain was out of sincro and only mistakes could be heard.
well a long time i don't play too, i think that i can't play no more.

cheers!

 

Last time I watched Hard Day's Night, I remember noticing that he threw darts left-handed...

 

'Come Together', that phrase he does on the intro and between the verses can't be played [exactly like Ringo did] unless you hit tom-tom #1 with your left hand first.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how I'd transcribe that in words, but I just figured that phrase out the other day because of "Rock Band" audio isolations that are floating around. I isolated each hit, so I could tell if it was tom tom #1, tom tom #2 or floor tom.

 

Any drummers in the 50's/60's that played lefty kits? I think Keith Moon had his hi-hat(closed?) between his toms.

Ringo may have had to play "communal" drum kits at early club shows when there were multiple acts. UK teachers were still young British kids to only write with their right hands at the time Ringo went to school. This happened to my UK born Granny.

 

The fills in "She Said She Said" always confounded me, this makes sense now.

 

Ahhh, I recently noticed him doing that in a Beatles video - maybe something on one of the remasters mini-docs.

 

Left handed or right handed, Ringo is the most(or one of the most) solid drummers I've ever seen or heard. And I say that after listening to countless hours of takes and sessions along with seeing him live. Just goes to show you don't have to be "fancy" to be good.

 

He also plays slightly behind the beat.

 

Watch him play 'All My Loving' on the '64 Ed Sullivan show.

 

It doesn't take much to set up a kit for a left hander. Just move the drums and cymbals around. Even on a "jazz" kit (with only one tom), I would think that you could swivel the tom around or turn the whole thing around.

I can't think of too many people who play truly "left handed" where the left foot is on the bass drum.

There are a quite a few drummers who play a normal kit, but play semi "left handed" (left hand on the hi-hat, right hand on the snare). Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, for example. In most cases, I think it's just the way they first started playing . But, if you are used to playing normally, it is weird.

 

Same here. I was once in a band that covered it, and I always ended up handcuffing myself.

 

Off hand, the only one I've seen in person is Ian Paiste of Deep Purple, and on video....Mike Gibbins of Badfinger

 

I'm left handed but play with a tight handed kit,and some of my personal favorite patterns are RLL,LRR,LLR,RRL, and double paradiddles for any triplets or sextuplets. For just moving down the drums in 8th or 16th notes,I usually end up either crossing my hands at some point,or I stick to a lot of snare and just use the toms for color.if i need to reposition my hands,i typically just hit the hihat as someone said previously. I believe this a very good replica of ringo's style. Im currently working on my right hand lead, but being left handed leads to some pretty cool fills that a lot of righties would struggle with for a quick minute