Cobus - Angels & Airwaves - Heaven (Drum Cover)

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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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