Musician Plays Signature Drum Parts of 71 Beatles Songs in 5 Minutes: A Whirlwind Tribute to Ringo Starr

Kye Smith, a drum­mer based in New­cas­tle, Aus­tralia, recent­ly hauled his drum kit to a near­by rooftop (an homage to The Bea­t­les’ 1969 rooftop gig?) and start­ed bang­ing out a pret­ty won­der­ful trib­ute to Ringo Starr, play­ing drum parts from 71 Bea­t­les songs in 5 quick min­utes. Smith moves chrono­log­i­cal­ly, play­ing the songs in the order they were released (not record­ed). We start in 1962, move through 1969, and even momen­tar­i­ly vis­it 1995. On his Face­book page, Smith had this to say:

Way before I found out about punk rock or even knew what a snare drum was I spent my child­hood play­ing vinyl records at my grand­par­ents place spin­ning artists such as Slim Dusty, ELVIS PRESLEY and The Bea­t­les.

This chronol­o­gy called for some spe­cial treat­ment and got me out of the stu­dio and onto the rooftop of The Great North­ern Hotel — New­cas­tle, Aus­tralia for a pret­ty stun­ning view of New­cas­tle, New South Wales in the back­ground.

Thanks to every­one at The Great North­ern for let­ting me make some noise up there and to Elu­mi­nate for help­ing me shoot it and lug heaps of gear up 7 storeys of stairs!

Below the jump, you can find the list of songs that appear in the video, com­plete with cor­re­spond­ing time stamps. And keep in mind that Smith, as he men­tions on Youtube, is “avail­able for stu­dio and live work and will be open­ing up some slots for drum lessons short­ly.” Con­tact him here.

PS: If you can name one of the drum parts that was orig­i­nal­ly played by Paul McCart­ney, you get bonus points.

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(1962)
0:06 — Love Me Do
0:09 — P.S. I Love You

(1963)
0:13 — Please Please Me
0:17 — I Saw Her Stand­ing There
0:20 — Do You Want to Know a Secret?
0:22 — From Me to You
0:24 — Thank You Girl
0:27 — She Loves You
0:30 — All My Lov­ing
0:33 — I Want to Hold Your Hand

(1964)
0:36 — Can’t Buy Me Love
0:40 — A Hard Day’s Night
0:43 — I Should Have Known Bet­ter
0:46 — If I Fell
0:52 — I’m Hap­py Just to Dance With You
0:55 — And I Love Her
0:59 — I’ll Cry Instead
1:01 — You Can’t Do That
1:04 — I Feel Fine
1:07 — She’s a Woman
1:10 — Eight Days a Week
1:13 — I Don’t Want to Spoil the Par­ty

(1965)
1:18 — Tick­et to Ride
1:22 — Yes it Is
1:29 — Help!
1:33 — Yes­ter­day
1:41 — Day Trip­per
1:45 — We Can Work it Out
1:47 — Dri­ve My Car
1:51 — Nor­we­gian Wood
1:55 — Nowhere Man
2:01 — Michelle
2:03 — What Goes On
2:08 — Girl
2:10 — In My Life

(1966)
2:14 — Paper­back Writer
2:18 — Rain
2:22 — Tax­man
2:24 — Eleanor Rig­by
2:29 — Yel­low Sub­ma­rine
2:33 — Good Day Sun­shine
2:37 — Got to Get You Into My Life

(1967)
2:41 — Straw­ber­ry Fields For­ev­er
2:47 — Pen­ny Lane
2:51 — Sgt. Pepper’s Lone­ly Hearts Club Band
2:56 — With a Lit­tle Help From My Friends
2:58 — Lucy in the Sky With Dia­monds
3:05 — A Day in the Life
3:11 — All You Need is Love
3:15 — Baby You’re a Rich Man
3:20 — Hel­lo Good­bye
3:23 — I Am the Wal­rus

(1968)
3:24 — Lady Madon­na
3:29 — Hey Jude
3:34 — Rev­o­lu­tion
3:39 — Back in the U.S.S.R.
3:41 — Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
3:46 — While My Gui­tar Gen­tly Weeps

(1969)
3:50 — Get Back
3:54 — Don’t Let Me Down
3:58 — The Bal­lad of John and Yoko
4:02 — Come Togeth­er
4:07 — Some­thing
4:12 — Octopus’s Gar­den
4:15 — Here Come’s the Sun
4:19 — The End

(1970)
4:24 — Let it Be
4:32 — You Know My Name (Look Up the Num­ber)
4:37 — For You Blue
4:39 — The Long and Wind­ing Road

(1995)
4:50 — Free as a Bird