Cobus Potgieter - Drum Covers

Cobus Potgieter, the 22-year old YouTube drummer who grew up in Humansdorp in the Eastern Cape, is internationally recognised for his videos on the social network channel, notching close to 18 million views.

Potgieter began playing drums at the age of 16 and posted his first video in August 2006. In late 2007, he loaded his first hit track, Nsnyc's Pop, which was his top viewed video with over 1,4 million views.

Over the past three years, he has posted five series of videos on the channel, each using different camera angles and editing techniques. His first series was the "overhead series" featuring 10 videos which was released in June 2007. This was followed by the "tri-cam" series featuring seven videos and the "dual-cam" series with three videos. The "blister" series with seven videos includes Potgieter's Most Viewed Video, Face Down by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus in February 2008 which attracted over 1,5 million views.

On November 11, 2008, Cobus Potgieter uploaded the Hybrid series (he used the acoustic and electric kits combined) which comprised 17 videos, including Avenged Sevenfold's Afterlife, Vanilla Sky's Umbrella (a Rihanna cover) and the Jonas Brothers Burnin' Up.

This was followed by the Michael Jackson tribute series which included four tracks, Beat it, Black or White, Smooth Criminal and Billie Jean. This mini-tribute series' topped over 100 000 views in only four days. His drum cover of Beat it was the second most rated video by a musician on YouTube on the second day of its release.

Cobus Potgieter cites Tony Royster Jr, Derico Watson, Carter Beauford, Travis Barker, Mike Portnoy and Thomas Lang as his main drumming influences.
Potgieter currently lives in Bloemfontein, South Africa

The video archive includes drum covers of most popular on Youtube drummer Cobus Potgieter. The list of tracks is the same as the recently released on DVD in the U.S. 60 videos.

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