Most people on this Drumeo show listen to the whole song at LEAST once before picking up the sticks. Chad listens to 30 Second to Mars, FOR 30 seconds, and just improvs his way into a badass cover. Love that shit.

"No, i fuckin nailed it" what a boss, love this guy

I’ve watched many of the Drumeo videos and Chad’s is truly unique. The majority of the other drummers will listen to the entire drumless track first, most taking notes on timing, choruses, solos, transitions, etc. Then they will take a shot at it on a second play through. Chad listened to the first 30 seconds of a song he’s never heard, picked out the timing, felt the vibe and immediately started playing without any prior knowledge of the song’s structure. He actively listened to the entire song while simultaneously playing and adjusting to every transition, echoing guitar riffs, and emphasizing vocals… all in real time! That’s absolutely remarkable!

Chad Listened for 30 seconds of 30 seconds to Mars song "The Kill" and he Killed it. 😅😳

It blows me away how amazing he does without even listening to the whole drumless track at least once. He just kills with no idea what's coming next.

That drop in was perfect!

he was toying with it incredible

The title should’ve been “Chad Smith hears 30 seconds of Thirty Seconds To Mars, and then f’ng nails it” 😂 I think it’s a fantastic concept. Get a well known drummer, sit them at a kit, play them a drum less track and ask them to play what they think would work, and even better when it’s not that drummer’s preferred style/genre. Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) reacted to it in his channel and suggested getting their drummer on to give it a go. Chad wearing a Judas Priest shirt makes we want to see Drumeo throw someone in the deep end and get them to play Painkiller 😂

The one major thing that sets Chad's version apart, which i think is so much better, is his ghost beats with the kick drum. Gives it such a better groove

I would imagine that being bandmates with Frusciante, Flea, and Kiedis is part of the reason why he's so quick to pick up a song. That, and he's a fucking drum god and his attitude towards playing music is so refreshing. You never see Chad Smith not in the mood. He's just enjoyable to watch because he's always playing like he really means it. Stellar musician. 10/10

Wow, he nailed it. As a drummer this is impressive!!!

God level drummer

They usually listen to the full track first. Chad just jumped right in.

He doesn't even take a whole listen like everyone else. He just goes God Mode and starts playing

i love how he was on the ride cymbal. That made it so he can absolutely go ham while not sounding like he was overplaying.

Imagine this iconic man, working closely with the longest standing drug addicted musicians for decades, with all their ups and downs, and staying true to his Midwest USA roots, family values and all around nice, genuine and generous personality while maintaining his virtuoso killer status. While even crediting his public school music programs for all his knowledge and success.❤

There's a video going around of Jared Leto and his brother (the drummer) watching Chad's performance and loving it. A phenomenal job.

He fucking nailed it. Chads wheelhouse has no ceiling bro. I loved his energy

Those bloody chorus accents are freaking gold young lad. Bloody brilliant mate! Great reaction.

He really nailed it )) Chad is a real chad 😆

“If we put the drums on God Mode, no one will ever be able to do it.” Chad Smith: “hold my pint, I got this.”

The fact that he was able to just jump in after listening to the first 30 or 40 seconds makes this THE drummer blind take video the best. Moving forward, I'd like to see Drumeo challenge more drummers to try that approach. Sort of like a Hot Ones challenge. No prep, just jump in blind.

I've watched a few reactions to this video (which is why KZfaq recommended yours, so hello!) and there's something none of them have picked up on that for some reason I just felt like you'd hit upon. At the end of the breakdown, he perfectly anticipates the final chorus, which everyone (myself and you included) rightly flip out for, but it's not some magic trick. He's tapping away and actively listening to the song. He hears the ambient swell during the last beat or two, and that's what triggers his finely-tuned senses to say "here we go!" Those are the sorts of little things that can make this sort of "perfect improvisation" possible. I think what triggered my ear to it (I recognized the chorus, but I'd never listened the song before) was something the drummer in my old church band said. I'm a singer & guitarist (primarily singer) and our band was completed by a jazz pianist, so we liked to play around with styles, arrangements, and I'd often add in vocal deviations and/or diva moments (because they're fun). The drummer said to me at one point during a practice that I sang like I was conducting the band. He pointed out that he could always hear that little edge to crescendo in my voice just before I was going to go off-script into something bigger, and that it allowed him to raise his intensity WITH me, not just picking it up after I'm already there. I'd never thought of that before, and while I certainly understood what he was saying, I don't think I'd really FELT it until I watched this Drumeo video for the first time and was able to anticipate the final chorus in real-time along with Chad. It was a total "a ha" moment for me. Anyway, I enjoyed this video, and I'll definitely be checking out more of your stuff. Cheers!

Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth) doing Mr Brightside is awesome. because he does a full listen through making notes rather than going directly in like Chad.

8:15 that drum fill made it more epic.

To say this is epic is a understatement wow.

You need to check out any of the Jonathan “Sugarfoot” Moffett videos. He was Michael Jackson’s live drummer from 83 til his death. MJ, a famous perfectionist, said “Everyone makes mistakes live,the guitar, even me, but not Sugarfoot.” I think that says it’s all. Dude is more accurate than a metronome! Or Larnell Lewis, a jazz fusion drummer, playing Enter Sandman after a single listen. He’s absolutely a musical genius, anticipating everything within 30 seconds. He apparently joined the group Snarky Puppy at the last minute and on the plane ride learned the entire catalog.

Ok I am not a drummer but I love how Chad for the Chilis has this amazing off beat, that is so late it feels like it should be off time but is just perfect, what I love about him as a drummer is that he doesn’t play that chilli style on everything he drums, so on this he is on the beat, and when playing with dua lips he does the pop style so well.

That whole series is a lot of fun, but I'm partial to Greyson Nekrutman playing Sleep Token (Hypnosis). Even the ones where the drummer doesn't manage to get all that close to the original arrangement are so interesting to just see the mental process they go through in trying to reverse-engineer the drum part.

He was just playing around and having fun at the end. If you notice he never actually listens to the song all the way through any time it’s played with the exception of when he played it. He also played it on the very first take and didn’t use a second or third take like all the other drummers did. Not taking away anything from the other drummers on the show as they all didn’t great job. Chad’s talent is just amazing. I personally believe that Chad Smith is one of the drummers that Shannon looked up to which is why it has a bit of Chads’ style in it.

He’s been playing so long that when his mind connected to some rhythm his muscle memory picked it right up. Years and years of playing and the confidence to know he can do it and if not … fuck it I’ll do it the way i think it should be. Heck if you’d never heard the song before you’d have thought those were the actual beats lol

yeah chad murdered that shit haha

BRO !! THANK YOU for watching the whole video... damn near every other reaction ive watched for this cut it off as soon as he was done... earned a sub my man. thank you!!

FANTASTIC reaction video from a musicians perspective! You nailed the reaction with your comments as well as Chad played the drums

Lovely reaction from you! Chad is a beast. For me RHCP is a crazy band cause Anthony isn't on the same level but the trio of Will Ferrel, Wayne Rooney and Jesus is so amazing. Had so much fun listening to their solos over and over. Hope you will react to Sugarfoot and Linkin Park

This is one of the best reaction videos that I heve seen for ages... cos it was so weird to see, how Chad got in so quickly, not knowing the song and did it so ***** well... And I do like both bands... 30 STM is to me the more relatable, but still. Both bands are great.

He only needed to listen for a few seconds to start creating that wonder!

Many great drumers in drumeo, but only Chad Smith goes all the track in 30seconds hearing... .hahahaha 30 seconds to mars.

Great reaction! My favorite vid on Drumeo! I personally want Chad to play "Higher Power" by Boston.

i can tell your a real drummer cuz i love this video and have watched a few folks react to it. i wanna start drumming but idk where to start

you can see chad is listening to the song to catch the feel. at 4:45, you can see that he thought the song was going to hit a high peak, but it went down. he went from hitting the crash twice to back on the ride as he predicted wrongly and the song mellowed down

Who doesn't know this amazing song and band???? I love this song of their's .....

Thats a very cool concept they have going on there. I've seen only a couple. It's a funny thing isn't it. Skill always win. I'd love to see a "kid" play like this

I've seen this so many times, but I never noticed how impressive 5:03 was. Excellent observation!

Megadeth doing Mr Brightside and Zack doing Architects were both really good. you should def check them out

This whole series of videos are great. Chad’s is particularly remarkable since he played as he listened for the take, but even the others (who are incredibly talented) where they just listen through the drumless track once and make an incredible take are just as impressive. Personally my favorites are of the younger drummers since they seem to more flexible in style than a lot of the more prestigious drummers (who are obviously incredible in their own right). Personal favorite was either the megadeth drummer or Zackgrooves covering architects. Both of them played the song very differently from the original, but in a way that sometimes sounds even better than the originals

a lot of drummers are fast they have a lot of tricks blah blah blah but for me true skill and knowledge comes only with age and experience to listen to 30 seconds of a song without drums and to play the drums that close to the original is amazing.

I like that song Chad did so well

Fkn Amazing mate!!

Chad nailed it..fosho..he is musician at first

Chad Smith has played with a lot of artists and bands outside RHCP : Johnny Cash, Iggy Pop, Dua Lipa, Ozzy to name a few. But my favorite song is Fishbone's cover of The Temptations "Shakey Ground" that also includes Flea.

No way! Thought I recognised you when you came up on my feed, its a fellow Norwich person from the band Youth Killed It 😎

Greyson doing sleep token song. Was fuckin great also

Such a good listener...

Amazing ❤❤❤ Great skills

Legend

Larnell Lewis playing Metallica's Enter Sandman is really great to watch also!

Freaking loved your reaction man! A lot of reactors don't know who Red Hot Chili Peppers are! Crying shame!

WoW

🤘🏻❄️

Gotta do Larnell Lewis’ episode too! He’s a genius!

U failed to mention that they play the song without the drum section

It'd be lit to hear RHCP do a clean cover and then a dirty interpretation of this song. Hell, maybe they trade songs for a track or two on a joint album.

Please watch Domino do Slipknot on drumeo!

I can’t believe so many goofs believe Chad Smith just improvised hearing a song for 10 seconds and played it EXACTLY like the original and even knew where all the breaks were 😂😂 Especially when they have world class drummers on there who have no clue and usually get it pretty wrong after working on it for an hour. 6:20 is the face of someone not telling the truth

GG from argentina Bro. Music and cultura Will save us all. I would love to see You react to the love perfornance "Perdonado - Invisible ,Spinetta en vivo 2008" "recital las bandas eternas" or "mi elemento - Spinetta en vivo" from the same concert, their respective drumms performances from those songs. Two different drummers playing along our Rock legend, L.A. Spinetta. Love your work keep it going!

Checkout Chad with chicken foot

It's in 6/8. The phrasing is the clear difference from 3/4.

Chad's version was much better. Too many kicks drag the song back. Sounded really laboured when they played the original after his take.

Funny how 2 others said it was in 6 (not that I know, I just take Chads word for it way above the others) Not sure what the difference exactly is as it sounds like they're pretty close since people say different numbers.

You didn't commentbso i dont know if you picked up on the fact that the track he was listening to was a drumless track... which is the typical M.O. But where most listen through all the way once before trying it out on the 2nd and sometimes 3rd pass, so they can note the breaks etc... But no, he just jumps in without knowing where breaks are and nails them anyways, wtf.

I didn't know that he and Flea aren't even friends.

Just a bit of advice for future reaction videos... Pause the video for when you make your comment. I don't know about others but I can't really hear your comments when the video is still playing.

What type of headphones u wearing??

Your song? So, you're drummer in original?

I actually prefer his style at the ending. I know... unpopular opinion. 🤷‍♀️

It's in 6/8

Isn't the song in 6/8? 3/4 would say the are 3 quarternotes accents in a measure. 6/8 says the accents are on beats 1 and 4, dividing the measure in two basically. X/8 measures are always 3 and 2 8th note groups. X/4 measures mostly have accents on every quarter note. 8/8 is Coldplay - Clocks 4/4 is MJ - Billie Jean

can u link me your in ear´s?

Have you heard of el estepario siberiano btw? He is not very reactable as he only makes shorts tmk but he is insane. He uses one hand for every song

Do Larnell Lewis on Drumeo for sho you’ll love it! 🔥🔥🔥

Isn't the song in 6/8?

I think it's 3/6 isn't it?

The amount of smugness here is only reflected in the amount of subscribers

5:28 lmao what. No he switched 7 years ago to DW. he recently switched from Sabian a year ago

Checkout the first Chickenfoot record for some great Chad Smith Rock and Roll drumming!

you don't think he over played it?! wow. I'd love to hear your opinion with all due respect sir.