The Beatles: Another Girl (Drum Cover)
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- “Another Girl” is a song from The Beatles’ fifth album Help!, and is featured in the film of the same name and features Ringo on the acoustic guitar and John on drums… at least that’s the lineup shown in the song’s scene from the movie briefly. (Though there is a song on the album that has John and Ringo swapping instruments. Anybody know what it is?) Paul wrote the song while in Tunisia during a ten day holiday after the group’s Christmas shows. Addressed to the singer’s girlfriend, the lyrics tell a story of the narrator informing his girlfriend that he has found another girl.
After Paul returned from Tunisia on February 14, the band started work on the song on February 15 at EMI studios, the first recording session date for their soundtrack to their second film Help! “Another Girl” was the second song recorded that day after John’s “Ticket to Ride” and before George’s “I Need You.” One take was all that was needed to achieve a satisfactory backing track and overdubs were added afterwards which included double-tracked lead vocals from Paul, more backing vocals, and a guitar flourish from George to be edited at the end of the song which eventually would be left out of the final mix. The lineup at the time consisted of Paul on vocals and bass, Ringo on drums, and John on electric rhythm guitar and George on acoustic rhythm guitar. The following day, Paul added a lead guitar part on his Epiphone Casino after Harrison was struggling on the part.
Ringo’s drum track on the song is rather simple. It’s a country shuffle that is similar to what you hear on “I’ll Cry Instead” a year earlier. The hardest part of the song is getting those double hits in on the bass drum. There are no fills in the song except for a brief snare pick up fill going into the last chorus at 1:49.
I’d like to address the sound of the snare drum in the song. To my ears, the snare sounds dampened, but not from a wallet or harmonica case. I did recording tests with a harmonica case, wallet, and bandana only part way on the snare and I decided that the bandana sounded the closest to the record. To me, it resembles the snare sound heard in some songs from Beatles for Sale where they started experiment with different drum muffling techniques. I might be wrong about that, but I’m just going off of what I hear. The drums in this video are also more prominent than what you hear on the record.
Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy! As always, stay tuned for more to come!
Ive never been a huge fan of this song but regardless your videos really show me how awesome ringo's kick patterns can be. great one!
Thank you very much!
Awesome job David!! The bass drum pattern is incredible
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Nice work! I’ve always loved his playing on the Help album. Always found it interesting how his snare was cranked up considerably on most of the tunes. I love it though!
Thank you very much! I love his snare sound heard on their mid-60s albums. It just sounds so good!
To keep that cadence and rythm is impressive. Congratulations great video.
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What a groove! He nails it again! I need to stop being so surprised…
Thank you very much Jacob!
Great job! the sound of the cymbals is pefect! Greetings from Chile :)
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"Help!" is the album where Ringo started to show off in my opinion...
And you do a great job of replicating it every time :)
I agree. It is the album where Ringo’s drumming got more technical and flashy. Especially on the rockers like “Dizzy Miss Lizzy”
the song where john and ringo switch instruments is i need you
You got it!
The scene was filmed on February 27, 1965 on Balmoral Island. John plays his (actually originally George's) Gibson J-160E while George plays John's Rickenbacker 325 so they are not switching instruments, but rather George (for some reason) is playing John's Ric. There is a brief moment when John is scene playing Ringo's drums (kind of going about the set) while Ringo is on John's Ric 325.
The only comment I would make and perhaps I missed something in your writeup, Ringo does not hit his snare with a single hit followed by a double (1/4) hit. It is straight through on the snare with no double hits. Sorry, I've been a drummer for 50 years, along with guitar and bass for 40 years and NEVER took lessons/read music. Kinda like Macca on that......"Paul, what kind of strings do you use?". "Well, I'm not the technical type, they're long shiny ones....". I also love how Ringo comes back in on his ride, at one point, starting on the bell (center) and moving back out on his ride. Great job and love your videos!
Thank you very much! When I isolated the track using the Moises.Ai app on my phone, I heard snares on beats two, three, and four during the verses but the isolated track on CZcams only has snare on beats two and four. I just went with what I had.
@@davidmontis7259 I know you want to recreate these parts as accurately as possible so I hope to critique them ONLY to help you better recreate them. I love what you're doing! Keep it up!
@@lg4360 I appreciate your feedback. I really do. It inspires me to keep going and recreate the parts as accurate as I can. Especially when it comes from a fellow drummer!
You have John and George’s parts switched.
Whoops. Thanks for the correction. It’s been corrected.
It’s I Need You
You got it!
I'm pretty sure George plays John's J-160E throughout the scene while John plays his Ric 325 throughout the scene. You can see how cold it was that day on Salisbury Plain as Ringo shivers...A little ditty about that song. In the film scene Ringo is playing just his snare when in fact he plays a rhythmic beat with his hands on the back of John's J160E. John actually played (hit) the snare on beats two and four. Ringo overdubbed the cowbell later. In the Another Girl scene, George is playing John's Ric 325 while John plays the Gibson J160E. At a very brief moment (near the end) John is filmed going about on Ringo's drums, while Ringo is seen unemotionally strumming the Ric 325.
@@lg4360 on the record George plays both guitar parts on his Jose Ramirez Classical and Rickenbacker 360/12, Paul on bass, Ringo tapping the back of John’s J-160e, and John playing a snare drum
@@Henry3Studios You're correct. There has been questions about whether George actually used a volume pedal to get the organ like sound or John was manually turning the volume knob on the Vox amp. I believe George was using a volume pedal.
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