There is something almost fated about Sina Doering walking into Abbey Road’s Studio 2 to record a cover of “Come Together.” The German drummer, known across the internet as Sina Drums, has been circling the Beatles’ legacy her entire life. Her father, Mike Wilbury, spent a decade touring Europe with a Beatles tribute band called The Silver Beatles, and a two-year-old Sina was already riding along on those tours before she could hold a drumstick. Now, with nearly two million YouTube subscribers and a reputation as the most-watched female drummer on the platform, she has stepped into the very room where John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr committed that iconic groove to tape in July 1969.
The release of Sina Drums’ cover of “Come Together,” recorded live inside Abbey Road Studios Studio 2, marks one of the most poetically significant moments in her career to date. Studio 2 is not simply a prestigious address. It is the specific room where Ringo Starr placed tea towels over his tom drums to deaden the sound, where McCartney conjured the swampy, smoky bass riff at Lennon’s request, and where the final eight-track session captured one of the most hypnotic grooves in rock history. For a drummer of Sina’s background and sensibility, the room carries a weight that very few studios on earth can match.
The session was assembled as a full live band performance, produced and engineered by Wytse Gerichhausen of White Sea Studio, with additional engineering and mastering handled by Gabriel Suarez Cejuela. The project was directed, mixed, and edited by Nils Neumann, who also played bass guitar on the recording. Lead vocals were delivered by Elsa Steixner, with backing vocals from Megija Marija, backing vocals and ad-libs from Effie Anna, guitars from Nathan Becker and Rosie Boterill, piano from Marius Holland, and choir led by Ronnie Grace. Austrian microphone company LEWITT participated in the session, pairing their modern condenser designs alongside some of the original vintage Beatles-era microphones that still reside within the studio’s walls. It was a deliberate nod to what made Abbey Road so distinctive: a constant conversation between the past and the present, between analog warmth and contemporary precision.
The decision to perform entirely live, in the same room, all at once, was no small creative choice. Most online music productions of this scale are assembled remotely, track by track, across time zones and home studios. Recording everything together in Studio 2 in a single live performance honored the spirit of how the original was made in the summer of 1969, and it placed an enormous amount of trust in both the musicians and the room itself. Sina herself noted that her biggest technical challenge when recording live with a full band had always been drum bleed into the vocal microphones. The LEWITT MTP W950 handheld condenser microphones used by the three vocalists reportedly addressed that problem directly, maintaining clean, transparent vocal capture even with a full band playing at volume around them.
“Come Together” was written by John Lennon and appears as the opening track on the Beatles’ 1969 album Abbey Road, widely considered one of the greatest records ever made. The song was famously described by producer George Martin as the one track that best illustrated how the four disparate talents of the band combined into something greater than the sum of their parts. Lennon himself called it one of his favorite Beatles recordings, praising its funky, bluesy character. That groove has made it one of the most revisited songs in rock history, with notable versions from Aerosmith, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, and the Arctic Monkeys among the most prominent. Sina’s version now joins that lineage, distinguished by the fact that it was captured inside the original room, with a full live band, at the address where the song was born.
For Sina Doering, the journey to Studio 2 has been long and thoroughly earned. She began playing drums in 2009, started her YouTube channel in 2013 at the age of fourteen with a cover of Dream Theater’s “Metropolis Pt. 1,” and has spent more than a decade building one of the most dedicated drumming communities on the internet. Along the way she recorded original albums under the Chi Might banner featuring over forty collaborating artists, was invited by Deep Purple’s Ian Paice to record together after he discovered her channel in 2020, was recruited by Jim Peterik of Survivor to play on his album Tigress: Women Who Rock the World, toured with Rock the Opera appearing at venues including the Vienna State Opera, and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz and Pop Drums from the ArtEZ Conservatory in Arnhem in June 2024. That same summer she relocated to London, a move that brought her physically and spiritually closer to the city whose musical history she had been orbiting her entire life.
The behind-the-scenes footage was released on White Sea Studio’s channel, with the performance video appearing on Sina’s own YouTube channel, giving audiences two complementary windows into what it looked and sounded like to record inside one of music’s most storied spaces. Camera work was handled by Tim Meyer, Tashin Singh, and Abdul Ahad Naushad, with photography by Noam Franbuch, ensuring the session was documented with a level of visual craft that matches the weight of the recording itself.
What makes this release compelling beyond its surface spectacle is the way it collapses time. A musician who rode in a tour van as a toddler while her father played Beatles songs on tribute stages across Europe has now stood inside the room where those songs were actually made, leading her own ensemble through one of them. The groove that Ringo Starr built in 1969 with carefully muted toms and deliberate restraint is exactly the kind of drumming that has always informed Sina’s approach: purposeful, groove-first, and completely in service of the song. That philosophy, forged over years of covers and collaborations and conservatory study, found its most resonant setting yet in Studio 2 on Abbey Road.
Check out the video of the recording below.
