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Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.
- Chad Smith
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#Great
#Key
#Play
#Quality
I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.
- Chad Smith
#High School
#Jazz
#Music
#School
#Way
I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
- Chad Smith
#Back
#Black
#Lesson
#Me
#Work
I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.
- Chad Smith
#Better
#Brother
#California
#Through
#Up
For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.
- Chad Smith
#Hat
#Kick
#Live
#Need
#Nice
Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
- Chad Smith
#Funk
#Like
#Old School
#Old
#School
I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.
- Chad Smith
#Baseball
#Club
#Energy
#Fun
#People
Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.
- Chad Smith
#Everything
#Jamming
#Know
#Sometimes
I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock.
- Chad Smith
#Drummer
#Know
#Milk
#Mother
#Quit
I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.
- Chad Smith
#Music
#Right
#Time
#Try
#Way
I'm being a dad and a good husband.
- Chad Smith
#Being
#Dad
#Good Husband
#Good
#Husband
I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.
- Chad Smith
#Chance
#Jump
#Just
#Love
#Play
Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.
- Chad Smith
#Best
#Good
#Own
#Place
#Sound
I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.
- Chad Smith
#Anything Else
#Anything
#Else
#Good
#Too
Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.
- Chad Smith
#Cool
#Feet
#Good
#Hat
#Time
Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
- Chad Smith
#Humor
#Jazz
#No Sense
#Sense Of Humor
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