Lexine's Corner

Yes, Here I am giving you a review about Cobus Potgieter's drum cover of Careful by Paramore. As you can see I am a great fan of paramore and I can say that this is one of his greatest covers aside from His drum cover of Born for this. He posted this last April 4, 2010 and Now has almost 50,000 views. Him being sponsored by TRX cymbals, Udrum, Jobeky Electronic drums, Samson, Audioshure, and Music Connection you can say that her's a great drummer by having a lot of Sponsors.

He's been a youtube sensation eversince his covers of the past years. And I can see that his style is improving, his control over the drums is great. Me as a musician can really tell that he's very compassionate about his music. 

Now Onto the Review...

I have three categories for my drum cover review: (1)  Style (2) Comparison with the original drums and (3) Overall and final sayings.

I. STYLE

Cobus is very versatile so he can go into what genre in music. He can play pop, rock, heavy metal, double bass, and as you can see he's good. Though his double bass needs to improve more. In his cover of Careful, I can see that he uses double bass which annoys me a bit. And his double stroke is more comfortable to hear. I know that he is having fun with the song but for the double bass thing, I kinda get a bit annoyed. I liked the fills though. I know that he is comfortable with it and having fun. In his cover I can feel different influences of his drumming which I think is good because it is a good sign that he's improving. 

II. COMPARISON W/ THE ORIGINAL DRUMS

Zac Farro, the drummer of Paramore uses crazy fills that makes you think that he's very fast. That's why I was having a hard time too on practicing drums on the new songs of Paramore in Brand New Eyes. Cobus did a really good job on doing his own fills. And as what cobus said, He enjoys on playing songs that he can really jam with and I agree. He has a wide range of which path he would be but He's mixing everything. That's what is unique about him.

III. OVERALL AND FINAL SAYINGS.

Cobus is one of the best drummers that I have seen or heard ever in my life. He's One of the people that would be famous because of his style and groove. so I give Kudos to him!

Also if you want to view his drum cover, I'l give you the link to his Drum cover of Paramore's Careful

Or you can watch it here.:

Paramore has a new studio version released and it's entitled Brick by Boring Brick. They also performed this song during MTV unplugged. I have the Studio version that you can download...

Last August 13, Paramore released their new music video on their incoming album "Brand New Eyes" with the hit single "Ignorance" via MTV both on television and website of the said channel.

I'll describe a bit of the music video... it has this vibe of darky yet spunky environment with only a single bulb light that is lighting the whole band. I can say that it's a very EPIC video so far in regarding the music videos they had. This one is more mature and we can see how mature the band became through 5 years in the music career.

So to begin I'll present you the music video

Yes! the long wait is here!!

On September 29, 2009 would be the album release of Paramore's new album "Brand New Eyes". According into an interview in mtv, that the name of the album came from a line of their song that is unreleased. "It was one of the first songs we put together, and it just didn't work out ... the lyric was originally really sad and negative. It was, 'I lost all my friends since they got brand-new eyes.' But we didn't use the song, [and we] stole the lyric because we liked the sound of it. Basically, the concept is, 'In order for our band to move on to whatever's next — and also us personally, as individuals, in order to grow up — [we needed to start] seeing each other, seeing everything, in a whole new perspective. Just trying to let go of whatever we might have struggled with the past and just see each other in a new way."

According to Paramore, the album is about inner struggles and battles with doubt. So we will be expecting more raw songs from this album!

Just to let you know their first single is "Ignorance" and will be released digitally on July 7. All available in amazon and itunes.

Here is the line up of their songs in the album:


1. Careful
02. Ignorance
03. Playing God
04. Brick by Boring Brick
05. Turn It Off
06. The Only Exception
07. Feeling Sorry
08. Looking Up
09. Where the Lines Overlap
10. Misguided Ghosts
11. All I Wanted

Here's a Sneak Peek on their new single "Ignorance"



Til here Next time with updates

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1614916/20090629/paramore.jhtml