Wednesday 29 August 2012

cobus

Cobus Potgieter is a professional drummer who became famous off of Youtube. He is an excellent drummer with great skills. Cobus is from Northern Cape, South Africa he was born in 1986. Cobus did not know what he wanted to do with his life. He was pretty much like me he really was not doing anything. Cobus found his desire towards drums when he went to a youth event at a church and afterwards the drummer from the band ask people to come and try a drum beat, when Cobus went up there he did not struggle and got it right away. That is how he discovered he liked drums. When he got a computer he started to listen to a lot of music and became more interested in drums. After a year after the youth event he had saved enough money. One day Cobus could not sleep so he just got on his drum set and started recording. He recorded eleven songs. Those songs became the “overhead series” and Cobus uploaded them online on Youtube and that is how Cobus new life actually started. Cobus started posting more series on Youtube all his videos make up over 100 millions views. This is something huge for someone who just plays drums for fun. Cobus flew to Canada to shoot video lessons with Jared Falk who is a drum teacher online who is phenomenal. When Cobus finish his lessons he flew to Los Angeles to the drum channel there he got to play with other great drummers like Tony Royster Jr. and others. Cobus recorded another series with a DW drum set which he got as a sponsor; he also uses TRX cymbals. Cobus is now creating a album, he is helping people around the world be heard just like he was heard. Cobus made people from around the world audition for their part. This album is currently in process

1 comment:

  1. I am fascinated by how YouTube stars get discovered and then hit it big! Have you tried recording your playing for YouTube? Do you think you could accomplish something like Cobus has?

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