Cobus - Angels & Airwaves - Heaven (Drum Cover)

Laus Deo Semper

http://www.CobusPotgieter.com
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Just when you thought the debate between "Drum Cover" vs "Drum Remix" vs "Freestyle Drum Jam" couldn't get any more complicated or redundant.. I decided to bring out a video combining most of these.. multiple times :)

I have always seen my videos as totally free forms of expression, way disconnected from what drums might have originally been recorded or what beats have been programmed. To be perfectly honest, I think that's what a "Drum Cover" is about, it's FREE. If you cover a song's drums note for note (which is a friggin ART just by itself, something that takes epic discipline.) i think it's fair to call it a "Drum Copy", or something of the like. Obviously you are super free to call it whatever you like, the words dont change the product anyway. But this video, which combined multiple layers of me drumming (in an almost instrusive way) is what "covering" a song is about for me.

by conventional standards my rendition and interpretation of the drumming is INCREDIBLY overplayed, so much so that even Mr Mike Portnoy might nudge me in the side with an earnest "less is more" if he saw this :)

but by my standards this was free, this was out-of-the box, and this was FUN. on SO many levels. and heck, that's more than enough for me.

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Just as a sidenote (for the audio engineers and mixer who might be wondering) NO replacement or triggering was done in this mix. Every single stroke you hear was just eq'd, mixed, and compressed; I didn't layer or trigger or replace anything.

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Angels & Airwaves - Heaven
from the 2009 release "I-EMPIRE"
is the copyrighted property of its owner(s).

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Drums:
UDRUM | http://www.udrum.com
Cobus Potgieter LDS Signature Series
http://www.udrum.com/db/viewpic.php?I...
http://www.udrum.com/db/viewstore.php...

Cymbals:
TRX Cymbals | http://www.trxcymbals.com

Electronics:
Jobeky Electronic Drums | http://www.jobekydrums.co.uk

Recording equipment:
Samson | http://www.samsontech.com
supplied and imported by Audiosure, South Africa | http://www.audiosure.co.za

Skins and sticks supplied by
Music Connection | http://www.musicconnection.com

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[ForTheWin247]

Thumbs up if you've seen the duet with atom willard! :D

[hellohiholaify]

i bet cobus had no idea during the making of this video that in a years time he'd be duetting this song with atom haha

[henmatos]

muy bueno este video cobus eres la ley

[aabba3]

Haha now I know that you recorded this album in a church haha :P

[anatomlu]

Awsome playing

[DrummerBA99]

I love that he had to stand up xD

[Hydroheal]

@ellman121 have you seen the feeling this chorus

[georgeinfection97]

this should have more views....this was epic!

[TheAllGameplays]

@ForTheWin247 The duet is amazing !

[AcousticMusicianESWS]

@ornball that is fantastic! hahahahaha how old do you think she is? what class subject? haha

[ellman121]

Has anybody else noticed that the lyrics in like 1/2 of Cobus' videos are moved around? In this song, the chorus lyrics are "With lights, and sounds, OH GOD, this is such a mess" and he has it as "With lights, and sounds, our world, this is such a mess."

[ornball]

i got caught watching this in class today and the teacher walked up behind me and watched it for a sec and she said make tht full screen i wanna see the rest(=