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:

Cobus Potgieter – The DVD

Mp3 Drumless Tracks

Modern Drummer Festival 2010

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) 450×360 24.98fp
Audio: AAC 44100Hz stereo 1411Kbps
Booklet: No
Size: 1 Gb