Drumming with Chad

So last month I signed up for a Legend of the 70s course on Drumeo featuring Chad Smith. Today all the classes dropped and I went over to show Jackson and watch him play along. Well....it was not what we had hoped for. The courses were more of a "workout" and the pacing wasn't as fast as the actual tracks. I think Jackson and I were thinking it would be the full song with maybe some practice beforehand. Oh well. We abandoned the courses and I wound up recording him play freestyle, which was way better. This kid, this kid is so freakin' good. 

Post Script: 

March 13th was the Live Q&A with CS and we made it three minutes before Jackson and I bailed. It was essentially the host in the Drumeo studio and then a Zoom call from Chad's phone from a freakin' basement. The video quality for him was dreadful. I stupidly thought it would be both of them in the studio together. What a joke. I thought the host would ask questions rather than the public and figured CS would do a bit of drumming to round out the Legends of the 70s course. Nope! It was shoddy as hell. I turned to Jax at minute three and said, "Wanna ditch this and hit Wawa for hoagies?" Hell to the yeah was his reply, and off we went. Frankly, it turned out to be a rad night with my fave teenager - we jammed to Sabbath, Queensrÿche, some Ani DiFranco, Sevendust, and Pumpkins, then grabbed some grub and stopped to see Mama/Nana Rose and pal, Ivy, before I dropped him at my in-laws. I even scored a hug from MeMom while Mannix played on the telly. Still, I'm mega-disappointed that the course and the Q&A were so blah. It felt like a cheap cash grab for his charity and I genuinely got zilch out of it. Oh well, time to move on!

(I mean this guy has more money than god but can't be bothered to set aside time to be properly filmed? And on something that isn't an iPod Touch from 2011? Horrendous.)

(*"when I mentioned" not "mr tinker" - fucking autocorrect...)