Chad Smith & Flea - Higher Ground lessons

[cdb0071988]

i love flea!!!!!!!

[pedritomelo]

chad was able to control that drumstick and he told it when to come down :)

[broomeydbr9]

1:19 he truly is magic, he can make drumsticks disappear

[1Sifting]

@broomeydbr9 and makes it reappear at 1:46

[TheFirstGroover]

CCHHHHHHAAAAAD AND FLEEEA. make my mind, blowing!!!!

[guilhermema9]

"lets bust it out"

[guymanbob]

... Okay, where the fuck did he throw that stick? Does Flea have a portal gun off screen?

[leo4132]

chad must of thrown that drumstick way up, it took about a minute to come back down :)

[Seemyhammer]

@leo4132 lol

[thebadgerdamon]

Haha this is soooo 90's...

[funkfanNo1]

Chad & Flea = Rythmn Section # 1.

[percypiggle6]

AWESOME

[ericcarr21]

the flying drumstick disliked this video 3 times :3

[fullnelson9999]

He is so stoned.

[yo182blink]

77777 view!

[Krakkulf]

what is this, and where could one get the whole thing?

[ManuWaterschoot]

@Krakkulf Red hot Rythm method made By chad smith, you can find it online :)

[canibaldance]

that playing with one hand

remainds me of def lepard

[nextelito]

when chad and flea are jammin the music come itself

[FinnishBassBoy]

1:20 He throws the stick away because he is so pro that is doesn't need it.

[nicklei369]

chad without a cap?? what's up?? xD

[saulbusbycozic]

what's good about the chilis is Chad and Flea form a PROPER solid back beat, working together tighter than a cats rear end.

and then J.F. comes and takes it to the next level with more serious talent, with some great lyrics from AK

good works guys!

[mikmat13]

hold 9 and flea will jerk it

[BewareTheWater11]

there's so much legitimate talent and ability and room for diversity in that band, but it only gets used for fucking ballands. I miss the "pre John quitting the band for heroin" period of RHCP

[XxkloudxX354]

cant hit triple bass notes like tht yet :(

[dembumboclot]

It's always a good thing they don't just babble babble and make 10 videos like expertvillage

[jojo5517]

what's the name of this dvd or vhs please

[T3ddisen]

1:18 - He throws the stick up in the air because he doesn't need it to show the beat.

1:44 - It comes back down to his hand.

Chad is so almighty that he even made God hold the stick for him.

[tlswhdgjs]

@maddrummer5 O werdd wthhh LOLOL

[hbabayan]

been workin on the foot for 15 years...had this on vhs...thanks for the music Chad!

[jensbond93]

@hbabayan name on VHS plz.

[Barteque9]

are those grace notes just triplets RLL or is this sth different?

[MikePostDrums]

@Barteque9 Sounds like triplets.

[Bullet19881988]

@MikePostDrums  higher ground has lot of triplets

[Themole4672]

Chad \smith most underrated drummer of all time

[pauliodotcom]

Flea....lets bust it out!

[Fabian050680]

these guys are so fucking awesome.. if I would be in a room with then I'd explode because the flood of awesomeness

[ashyytrev]

a rare view of chad smith w/o something on his head, he is usually wearing a hat of some sort

[dac150]

@ashyytrev because this is an older video....chad has been going bald for years..hence the hats or bandanna.

[GunninGuitarist]

sorry, but the very last second, it looked like chad was taking off his tupee

[superman9693]

@D4RKW01F right

[rockerma]

wich ride is chad using on this set ?

[RowellBen]

Which ever two people thumbs down this video, can go fuck themselves.

[ej3jay23]

love this combonation

[juggernaut422]

these videos are sooo badass!!! but theyre hilarious too!!!

[cfcefa09]

coolest fucking drumset ever

[dualdiabolo]

Where does the drumstick go D:

[haydondres]

I wander if the band name chickenfoot came from the last few moments of the video

[BulletWithYerName]

Him throwing the stick up and then catching it, nonchalantly, all while keeping a straight face almost seems like a joke.

It makes me think of something Chevy Chase would do, you know, just do it and keep going like nothing happened.

[Hardtack444]

am i missing somthing or did was tehstick really in the air for that long?

[BulletWithYerName]

@Hardtack444 I'm pretty sure he had someone up above catch it and then drop it back down when he needed it.

[Hardtack444]

lol thx

[Quimbinator]

LOL. Yeah, that was a part of a joke.

[bamwow09]

w/all this fame and stuff, i love how he's still humble

[Jordo1900]

who thinks these are an awesome pair for jammin

[saumonnn]

@Jordo1900 i do 

[Jordo1900]

@saumonnn so do i

[goodinbed64]

who agrees that they should make more videos like this nowadays???

[pharosis]

@goodinbed64yes they really should i think they should bring back there show i love these guys

[MrRichTard]

really underated drummer

[nnndoushe]

1:20 wtf?

[ConorSomerz]

he obviously threw it in the air, and had a guy up above him to catch it, then he threw it back to him when he needed it

[typo1337]

no i think he threw it so hard that its in the air for all the time!

[ConorSomerz]

right.....

[wayne1515]

waht kit is chad playing here

[chrislobo26]

pearl masters

[Gazzymunky]

Chad Smith is awesome. Swears to much tho lol.

[Gazzymunky]

tsch.

[Gazzymunky]

Ha ha thats so funny (:l

[alexjamess]

the grace notes so complicated.. my fucking left hand is only for jurk off, haha

[Hardtack444]

I remeber a diffretn grace/ghost notes convo with diffretn people like a year ago

[EgyPeti]

torrent

[StripMyWorldAway]

Where can I get this on DVD or cassette?

[BAAH4000]

Very funky!

[stopmopro]

who took out the japanese or chinese subtitles?thats the greatest lesson in the vid....lol

[Phrase]

The bass drum part sounds a lot less complex on the album than the pattern he is playing here!

[ednolan89]

chad smith is so fucking amazing

[Jizmol]

thems 2 so silly

[KeithHarbaugh]

ghost notes are guitar

[jonagwoo]

lol

[ednolan89]

he said grace notes

[KeithHarbaugh]

that was a reply to someone

[ednolan89]

yeah it was a reply to whoever was calling them ghost notes

[ilikemusicverymuch]

what a shit beat - higher ground is amazing - this has no groove, it's a metal beat with a metal beat on it - crap. Marcus miller does it 10 times better, at least.

[Romans10Verse9]

That's your opinion. You shouldn't put down music you know nothing about.

[ilikemusicverymuch]

dude - the reason that this music is popular, is because u dont have to know shit about it, compared to jazz for example, where u have to have at least some kind of knowledge, and some kind og "widened" ear to listen to.

So stop talking shit. thank you.

[Romans10Verse9]

I'm not talking shit. You shouldn't branch music off into genres and then decide which ones you don't like and close yourself off from them. I Love Vic, Marcus, Stanley, all those great jazz bassists and I Love jazz. I used to hate jazz but you have to realize that music is music, regardless of the "genre" it's in. I have no reason to come on here and "talk shit" to you.

[ArkAngelSlave]

I agree. Music is music. No use labeling it unless that is how your learning it.

[ThePaperStreetGuys]

First of all, it's a developed ear. Second of all, Romans10Verse9 pwned you.

[megaman2000]

Look if someoen enjoys it then leave them be. Everyone knows that jazz is the hardest music to play. I appreciate that most music harks back to jazz in some way but i just prefer this style.

[Hardtack444]

why is jazz the hardest to play?

[megaman2000]

its hard to explain. Look up Victor Wooten and thats probly the best lesson!

[ArkAngelSlave]

Larry Grahm has good lessons too. he kinds tells a story with his playing to show you how the bass style has evolved into what slapping is today.

[Hardtack444]

who thumbs this down? wtffffffffffffffffff

[projectoz88]

will ferral plays drums?

[h8thesox620]

its Chad Smith you idiot. Will Ferrel just teabags them xD. (you gotta see step brothers for that)

[Tonysguboriau]

I saw chad in a drum clinic and he not only accepts he looks amazingly similar to Will Ferral, but he actually finds it amusing, especially when they met at a dinner in LA! haha

[ZCMSPUPPET13]

hahah thatz funny man!

[tuttskifruttski]

Grace notes? Doesn't he mean GHOSTS notes?

[komo06]

lol stfu. he means what he said. GRACE note

[theheritic209]

What he did with the drumstick was funny.

[primusfeces]

rhcp