Paul McCartney played the bass, John Lennon played rhythm guitar, George Harrison played lead guitar and Ringo Starr played drums.
However, when recording in the studio it varied by a lot. Paul played guitar for some songs, John may have picked up the bass, etc.
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In The Beatles songs, Ringo played drums, and also some other percussion instruments. George played lead guitar. John played rhythm guitar, sometimes piano. Paul played Bass Guitar and sometimes piano.
Ringo also played a bit of guitar and piano. George also played a bit of piano. John played more piano... and Paul could play guitar, bass, piano, and drums. He was actually better than Ringo. But he was the only one who could play bass.
John Lennon - guitar, piano, harmonica, bass
George Harrison - guitar, sitar
Paul McCartney - bass, guitar, piano, drums
Ringo Starr - drums, tambourine, maracas
Yes. They were very proud of their craft as musicians.
ravi shankar thought goerge harrison (the beatles lead guitarist) to play guitar and other instruments
The Beatles DID NOT play their "usual" instruments at all... Ringo DID not play the Drums Paul DID NOT play the BASS George DID NOT play Lead John DID NOT play Rhythym HOWEVER>>> Paul does play an Acoustic guitar,accompanied by the violin and the by rest of the orchestra of George Martin,their producer.....
The most obvious one is the electric guitar, especially Paul's epic solo. Other instruments used were bass, drums, tambourine and cowbells.
they introduced unusual instruments into Rock Music, such as the sitar and they were the 'fathers' of Pop Music