Uploaded by deedlebag on Jul 2, 2009
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The Michael Jackson Tribute mini-series is me paying my respects to one of the most influential musicians to ever have lived. I absolutely LOVED jamming along to these song by MJ, the grooves are an incredible amount of fun to play :)
RIP MJ.
I have to emphasize, I know calling this a "cover" is wrong, seeing as I only PARTLY stayed true to the song's drums (or lack thereof), through the WHOLE song I play some variations of the beats, phrasing and fills, since 99% of what I play is improvised. Even though I have done my fair share of session and studio drumming, that has little to zero effect on these video's, I kind of see them as live performances. I'm NOT aiming to be accurate to the original drums, I'm just aiming to enjoy myself. And I thoroughly succeeded in doing that, might I add :)
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
from the 1982 release "Thriller"
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you overplay it, sound terrible man..
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What kind of hats are you using?
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Clockwork precise drumming!
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Awesome drummer, Im just glad he didnt make it one big solo and show off. He respected the song and kept it simple
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I LOVE YOUUUUUU <3
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Overplaying when you play like this you can overplay all you want this is a great video Cobus.
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@TYMCGOUGH "Praise always to God."
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a mane i think you might need sum new hats or yu might have had them close to hard
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for all the ''overplaying calling noobs'' hes just jamming to the song and enjoying himself before posting idiotic-jaelous comments about overplaying, read the discription first,
i like to watch this and hear some awsome drums in the song, coz i think it rox and i dont
care about overplaying when im just seeing someone improvising and enjoying to put his own
fills in it
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you overplayed it, too much stuff man.. your not the star, michael jackson is..
nice drumming, but your over doing it man......
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hash2all 4 months ago 108
@TobyJackson Not that I'm taking sides, but music stops being enjoyable when it becomes rigid and stale. The thing about music that I love the most is that everyone plays it just a bit differently. The way I see things, this person just wanted to upload their interpretation of the song. It's still Billie Jean, it's just a bit more upbeat than the original recording.
EquestriaDJ 5 months ago 28