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Hey I got those processed tracks you asked for
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yesterday i was able to play drums in SFF and i enjoy more the single pedal version, the reason is that i have actually disagree with the double bass version chart. simply because is wrong charted, this song doesnt have double bass pedal, that is a floor tom (charted as bass drum), you can clearly hear the diference between the bass drum and floor tom here in this video of the drum solo isolated with the floor tom overdubed:
also is believed that paul mccartney (or maybe the own ringo) played floor tom in other track, and both parts were mixed in the studio release. ( i guess maybe that is the reason of the floor tom overdubing in the video) and thats why i said i enjoy more the single bass pedal version because seems to split the floor tom away. The only song that ringo used double bass pedal was “Good Morning, Good Morning” (which double bass notes were omited by harmonix in TBR:cool:.
an interesting thing: in that video intro (first 5 seconds) you can hear ringo doing a rehersal of the solo but is playing a small tom instead of the floor tom used in the track, this a technique used later mostly heared in King Crimson’s Discipline Album by drumer Bill Bruford (you can compare the intro with “Elephant Talk” for example”). Ringo is an amazing drummer!
“Strawberry Fields” was recorded during the Sgt. Pepper sessions too, but was just omitted from the album to be released as its companion single (and later included in the American “Magical Mystery Tour” album, which was not an official UK album, but later accepted into canon because its tracklist didn’t overlap with any prior UK albums). In GMGM, the double bass is part of the main take, but on Strawberry Fields it was dubbed in, which is why you (correctly) identified it as separate from the main take. The tone of the drums are vastly different between takes, either because the mics were moved to record two drums, or the bass drums were much more pillow-muffled to prevent clipping when dubbed in. John’s yelling and Ringo’s drum solo were recorded in the same take onto a single track on the master tape, both according to the isolated track on Anthology 2 “as it is completely mono, ie. single-track) and my own stem extraction software, and if Paul were present playing Ringo’s floor tom at the same time as Ringo’s solo, it’s weird that John addressed Ringo only at the very end of the song.
I made the creative decision that releasing the chart on the grounds of how fun it is to play is completely fair, especially since it can’t be 100% confirmed in either direction. Technically speaking, the single-bass chart for the song uses the bass pedal from the main kit dub, so there’s no wrongness there, and if you adamantly believe that there’s no double bass in Strawberry Fields, you can always just not play the 2x version, and you won’t be missing anything, since the single version uses the confirmed single bass dub.
Despite all this speculation, even if Paul WAS present at Ringo’s side/rear riding the floor tom, charting it as such would be even more wrong than my version, because it violates the “Drummers can only have two arms” rule.
Either way, I’m glad you downloaded the song and enjoyed my mixing, as well as the other instruments. No beef.
It’s funny that the drums chart was what would catch the most criticism; since Strawberry Fields has some famous misheard lyrics (which became an even worse problem when the incorrect lyrics were the ones printed on the sleeve for the Blue Album).
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