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.
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.
See also:
Learn & Master Drums With Dann Sherrill
Benny Greb - The Language Of Drumming
Tracklist:
- +44 - Baby, Come On
- +44 - Lilian
- Angels And Airwaves - Love Like Rockets
- Angels And Airwaves - Valkyrie Missile
- Atfeh - Things Aren't So Beautiful Now
- Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife
- Avenged Sevenfold -Bat Country
- Black Eyed Peace - Let's Get It Started
- Blink-182 - Feeling This
- Blink-182 - Not Now
- Blink-182 - Violence
- Bomfunk MC - Freestyler
- Boys Like Girls - The Great Escape
- Breaking Benjamin - Breath
- Breaking Benjamin - The Diary Of Jane
- Carv! - Should I
- Dave Matthews Band - Satellite
- Dave Matthews Band - Tripping Billies
- Dave Matthews Band - Where Are You Going
- Drumsolo (Cobus)
- Fall Out Boy - Grand Theft Autumn
- Fightstar - Hazy Eyes
- Fort Minor - Believe Me
- Hanson - MMMBop
- Hillsong United - Salvation Is Here
- Hillsong United - Take It All
- Incubus - Nice To Know You
- Inslowmotion - Better Part Of Me
- Inslowmotion - Crimson
- Inslowmotion - Hierdie Keer
- Inslowmotion - Klaarblyklik
- Inslowmotion - Sielsrus
- Inslowmotion - Stupid Things
- John Mayer - Waiting On The World To Change
- Jonas Brothers - Burnin' Up
- Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
- Kloljag - Skree!
- Lukraaketaar - Disilusion
- Michael Jackson - Beat It
- Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
- Michael Jackson - Black Or White
- Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
- N-Sync - Pop
- Paramore - Born For This
- Planetsnakers - Never Stop
- Post-Record Jam (from the Blister Series)
- Red Jumpsuite Apparatus - Face Down
- Red Jumpsuite Apparatus - Pen And Paper
- Sherwood - Home
- Smash Mouth - All Star
- Straatligkinders - Gedacte Vir Die Dag
- Sum 41 - Fat Lip
- Switchfoot - Awakening
- System Of A Down - Toxicity (old)
- System Of A Down - Toxicity
- Taking Back Sunday - Liar
- TRIBUTE 2008, Part I
- Usher - Caught It
- Vanila Sky - Umberella
- Yellowcard - Breathing
Language: English
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Quality: WEBrip
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 450x360 24.98fp
Audio: AAC 44100Hz stereo 1411Kbps
Booklet: No
Size: 1 Gb
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Gracias por todos estos cover's, mis felicitaciones por estos gestos de comunidad para con los bateristas del mundo completo.
*PD: Si pudieran hacer algo respecto de algunos archivos que están como "premium" serían los mejores comunistas que he conocido hasta ahora.
keren abis,,, ternama,,hehehe sippp
Yow! Best Drumer ever! Make more drum-cover idol!
Really cool guy. I love it when he's playing Christian songs!