Drummer Awesomely Shreds Through 71 Beatles Songs In Only 5 Minutes

In just five minutes, Australian drummer Kye Smith shows off some of his talents, ripping into an astonishing 71 Beatles songs, playing roughly a measure or two from each melody before moving onto the next song. Whoa. Seventy-one riffs in five minutes! I know the Beatles music isn’t the most technically challenging stuff, but the coordination and memory required to pull this jam session off is pretty damn impressive if I do say for myself.

If you didn’t notice, Kye Smith was actually working through the mostly well-known Beatles songs in chronological order, which makes this video even cooler, as it shows the kind of progression that Ringo played with throughout the years. For your curiousity, here’s the entire track listing.

(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

Pretty dope, bro. Pretty dope.

[h/t Death & Taxes]