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Will Ferrell’s twin brother, Red Hot Chili Peppers Chad Smith, is back with another incredible video on the drums and this time he’s teaching aspiring drummers how to play RHCP’s ‘Can’t Stop’.
Chad Smith was recently at the center of a video for the Drumeo YouTube channel that went incredibly viral. The premise of that video was simple: he listened to a song he’d never heard before and a version of the song without drums, then he played drums along after hearing the song only once. That video of Chad playing drums on ‘The Kill’ by Thirty Seconds to Mars racked up millions of views immediately.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer and Will Ferrell lookalike is back for another Drumeo video. But this time he’s playing one of his own songs, ‘Can’t Stop’ by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and he’s doing it as a tutorial so aspiring drummers can easily learn the RHCP anthem.
RHCP Drummer Chad Smith Teaches How To Play ‘Can’t Stop’
Chad Smith obviously has perfect timing to his own song, a song he’s played thousands of times. But the overlay of the sheet music along with multi-angle cameras showing where he’s striking the various drums and can be a crucial learning tool for young drummers.
Which, brings me to my next point, this YouTube Channel (Drumeo) is pumping out the best musical education videos I’ve seen in years. RHCP’s Chad Smith is also a perfect person for these videos. He’s been around the industry for so long and reached the highest echelons of success and can now pay it forward by teaching the next generation of drummers.
That’s not to say that Chad is always teaching. He has been known to get competitive from time to time. Case in point, this drum off a few years back when Chad Smith threw down against Will Ferrell on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Will certainly performed better than most actors/comedians in Hollywood would be able to. Props to him for that.