Drumeo’s “For the First Time” sequence has change into an everyday hit on YouTube, largely due to a viral version that includes Pink Scorching Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith taking up the problem of taking part in Thirty Seconds to Mars’ “The Kill (Bury Me).”
That clip, which noticed Smith completely crushing the drums on the tune after listening to it for the primary time ever (minus the drum observe), has amassed 28 million views because it premiered in 2023. Two years later, Thirty Seconds to Mars drummer Shannon Leto not too long ago paid a go to to the Drumeo studio.
Not solely was Leto tasked along with his personal “For the First Time” problem with the Alter Bridge tune “Metalingus,” he was additionally requested to play alongside to a drumless model of Pink Scorching Chili Peppers’ “By the Approach.” It was throughout that latter efficiency that Chad Smith himself walked into the studio and quietly sat subsequent to Drumeo host Brandon Toews with out Leto noticing.
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It wasn’t till after Leto completed taking part in the tune that he observed Smith, who regardless of stating a few Leto’s missteps in the course of the efficiency, informed the Thirty Seconds to Mars drummer he “nailed it.”
Smith went on to say that his personal viral Drumeo video has garnered him newfound fame past the Chili Peppers, telling Leto, “I’ve had extra individuals come as much as from that [clip of me playing Thirty Seconds to Mars] … I used to be going out to dinner, and there was an enormous line of individuals attempting to get into the restaurant, and I stroll by, and a man goes, ‘Drumeo man!” Not ‘Chili Peppers,’ not ‘Will Ferrell.’”
Watch Shannon Leto taking part in “By the Approach” with the shock go to from Chad Smith, in addition to him taking part in Alter Bridge’s “Metalingus,” and Smith’s unique viral Thirty Seconds to Mars efficiency, under.
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