Paul McCartney – acoustic guitar, autoharp, Baldwin spinet, bass guitar, cello, classical guitar, drums, drum machine, electric guitar, electric piano, flugelhorn, gong, güiro, harmonium, acoustic guitar loops, maracas, melodica, moog synthesizer, B3 organ, tambourine on snare, recorders, tubular bells, 12 string guitar, tambourine, triangle, toy glockenspiel, percussion, piano, vibrachimes, violin, vocals, woodblock.
James Gadson – drums
Joey Waronker – bass drum, bongos, shaker
Abe Laboriel Jr. – percussion, block, tambourine
Nigel Godrich – piano and Epiphone acoustic guitar loops
Jason Falkner – electric guitar, classical guitar
Rusty Anderson – acoustic guitar
Brian Ray – acoustic guitar
Millennia Ensemble – strings, brass instrument
Joby Talbot – string arrangement, conducting, brass arrangement
Pedro Eustache – duduk
The Los Angeles Music Players – strings
David Campbell – string arrangement