This Drummer Of the Week is an awesome upcoming professional drummer name Cobus Potgieter. If you have been seeing my other posts on here you'll probably recognize Cobus in a couple of my previous ones. Right off the bat I want to talk about Cobus's background. When Cobus was six-teen years old he decided that he was going to learn how to play the drums, but had no experience whatsoever, so he basically taught himself how to play drums by ear and tried to imitate drum parts from songs that he liked. Eventually he started putting up videos of himself doing drum covers of songs on YouTube and he became a pretty big hit. In fact he became so big that he was getting multiple sponsorships by companies such as Truth Soul Armor Clothing, TRX Cymbals, UDRUMS, Samson Microphones, and Evans Drum Heads. But over the years he has made a couple changes. Now he is sponsored by Drum Workshop A.K.A. DW Drums, and Sabian Cymbals.
Cobus has also teamed up with Drumeo to make and release lessons called The Cobus Method and right now he's working on another series of drum covers that he will be putting up soon. On other projects he also made his own band called Ventura Lights who are working on doing a tour.
Cobus has certainly proven that you can do what you love and can make a career out of it no matter what the odds are. I definitely look up to him as a role model and he always inspires me to want to do better know his background and how much he has progressed as drummer in the a short amount of time.
I give my respects to him and with out further-a-dew, with his band Ventura Lights and the music video for their song Superheros, here's Cobus! :)
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