Cobus - Boys Like Girls - The Great Escape (DRUMS COVER)

Laus Deo Semper

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This is a drum cover (from the Dual-Cam Series) of Boys Like Girls' damn cool song, The Great Escape. This is by no means a technically challenging song, just damn fun to play :) I mostly did this as someone suggested the song and i digged the feel of it.. so like i said, technically very very easy song. But oh so fun fun fun..

I have to emphasize, I know calling this a "cover" is wrong, seeing as I only PARTLY stayed true to the song's drums, through the WHOLE song i play some variations of the beats, phrasing and fills, I'm NOT aiming to be accurate to the original drums, I'm just aiming to enjoy myself.. :) And I thouroughly succeeded in doing that, I might add ;)

Boys Like Girls - The Great Escape from their self-titled 2006 release is the copyrigthed property of its owner.
(External) Drums by Cobus Potgieter




*TECHNICAL INFO*
(with my first set of covers, the Overhead Series, i got an insane amount of questions about my set-up.. so here's an in detail description of how i made these covers..)

Drumkit:
Tama Superstar Custom; in the Blue Metallic Fade

Heads:
Toms TOP: Remo Powerstroke 3, Clear.
Toms BOTTOM: stock heads.
Snare TOP: Remo Emperor, Coated.
Snare BOTTOM: stock head.
Bassdrum BATTER: Remo Powerstroke 4, Clear.

Cymbals:
Paiste PST 5 UNIVERSAL setup:
14" Hats
16" Crash
20" Ride
8" Istanbul Mehmet Splash
Secondary Ride: Zildjian Planet Z (very muted, tightly screwed down)
Secondary Crash: Paiste 502 16" Crash

Bassdrum Pedal:
- Tama Iron Cobra Jnr. [HP200B]



*RECORDING*

[Two Panasonic NVGS250 3CCD Cameras]

I miced each individual drum, plus two overheads, ran this through a mixer, got a decent mix and recorded with ONLY *ONE* stereo channel.. no multitrack recorder(s) :) I compressed the final mix to HELL.. to get a more aggressive sound, to make it sit better in with the original song (and hopefully overpower the original drums), detailed compression settings: 20:1 with a threshold of -20db and a compensation gain of 15db, with both seperate channels (LEFT and RIGHT, from the mixer) sent to a stereo sub-group, and the compression settings applied to THIS group, it gave a nice compact and aggressive result.. further mastering was needed to equalize the final mix and control peak levels and such.

Category:

Music

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[THEKid123456789]

Cobus wears superman t-shirts.

Superman wears Cobus t-shirts.

[TGtaylor17]

when super man feels the beats coming from cobus he shits his super human pant

[blblblfkdjdjf]

the sound of your snare in this video literally turns me on

[MusicEqualsAwesome44]

It's cool because he doesn't copy the drummers of the songs, he adds his own unique twists. I am pretty sure they call that TALENT.

[stedzky08]

request.. let me hear Redneck by Lamb of God.. you're great

[bigbossdevin1919]

The epic part of this video is that his one eye is covered by his hair and yet his still playing like a boss.

[MrVinkots]

he looks like a muscular version of joe jonas!

[geminigurl]

OMG! i like you! im a girl but you make the hairs at the back of my neck stand! hahaha!

[skylineguy2612]

@DrumTipsAndLessons I think hes doing a play on the bands name boys like girls.... if they dislike they would be boys like boys.

[nherben09]

"Uploaded by deedlebag on Oct 18, 2007" but still now so many people are watching and I'm one of it! GO COBUS! you're a Legendary! IDOL!

[tRacyULuvMusic]

(Y)awesome drum cover in my favourite song :D