Ringo Starr admits 'I didn't practice' on drums and got by with a little help from friends

Ringo Starr has insisted he got by with help from his friends when it comes to drumming. The Beatle says he didn’t become a top drummer through practice, but simply by constant performing with pals. The Fab Four beat man described prepping moves at his home alone as “boring" and never took lessons.‌

Ringo, 84, admitted that his work behind the kit improved because he just went out and played shows. And at that started as a teenager working in a school equipment factory playing with pals to workers during lunch breaks. Asked whether he spent hours in his bedroom or having lessons to become so good behind the kit, Ringo confessed: “I didn't. I hate practicing.

‌“I hated sitting there. I tried it when I first got the kit upstairs in the back room like in all those movies that were made. And it was the most boring thing ever.  "I did all my learning with other musicians, other bands. I was lucky because there were a lot of us around and we weren't all great players. We were all learning.

 “So I learned everything with everyone else at that time in Liverpool."   Ringo got lucky by having pals who loved to do jam sessions during lunchtimes at their local factory.

“But I was lucky in the factory. The guy who lived next door to me in the street worked in the factory. He was Eddie Miles, a great‌
guitarist. He's just one of those guys, who could play anything. And my best friend Roy had made a tea chest bass and I had a snare
drum and brushes. “And we used to play to the men at lunchtime in the basement. And that's how I started. And now look at me.”

Ringo recalled to AXS TV in the US how he had a great well respected role as a drummer with a bigger band than The Beatles in the early 1960s.

‌Source: mirror.co.uk/James Desborough, Mark Jefferies

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