{"id":39441,"date":"2022-11-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=39441"},"modified":"2022-11-04T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:30:32","slug":"we-dared-todd-sucherman-to-play-a-foo-fighters-song-after-hearing-it-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/we-dared-todd-sucherman-to-play-a-foo-fighters-song-after-hearing-it-once\/","title":{"rendered":"We Dared Todd Sucherman To Play A Foo Fighters Song After Hearing It Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ZrmrlTtd3s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>If Foo Fighters invited Styx&#8217;s Todd Sucherman to take the drum throne (R.I.P. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/5-things-taylor-hawkins-taught-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Hawkins<\/a>), we think he&#8217;d be ready. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if he&#8217;d never heard the set before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In what&#8217;s quickly become a Drumeo tradition, we dared Todd to learn a song he&#8217;s never heard. In this video, he plays &#8220;Rope&#8221; from Foo Fighters&#8217; 2011 album <em>Wasting Light<\/em> after just one listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Todd usually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/learn-songs-by-ear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">learns songs by ear<\/a> and gives them his undivided attention when listening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s tough even for the pros to learn in real-time. But <em>you<\/em> get to see it happen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch Todd learn a song on the fly. How do you think he did?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/03212907\/Foo-Fighters-Rope-1667294747.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click here to get the sheet music so you can learn &#8220;Rope&#8221;, too.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve challenged other pro drummers to play songs after hearing them once. See how they did here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/fusion-drummer-attempts-metal-larnell-lewis-enter-sandman-metallica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Larnell Lewis<\/a>&nbsp;(\u201cEnter Sandman\u201d)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/dennis-chambers-funk-drummer-schism-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dennis Chambers<\/a> (&#8220;Schism&#8221;)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/hannah-welton-learn-drum-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hannah Welton<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/this-is-why-sight-reading-is-so-important\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greg Bissonnette<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/3-steps-to-learn-any-song-by-ear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rashid Williams<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-gil-sharone-learns-a-drumless-song-by-ear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gil Sharone<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Sucherman tried playing Foo Fighters&#8217; &#8220;Rope&#8221; after hearing it just once. 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