MEYTAL COHEN
Meytal Cohen is a hard-hitting versatile drummer based in the Los Angeles area. Born and raised in Ramat-Gan, Israel, Meytal is the youngest in a large family of seven. Meytal graduated from the prestigious Blich High School in Ramat-Gan as a theater major. At the age of 18, Meytal started playing drums and found her passion.
After being released from duty after serving two years in the Israel Defense Force, Meytal relocated to LA and enrolled in the Los Angeles Music Academy to pursue her drumming career. She was professionally trained in drums and percussion by world-class musicians such as: Joe Porcaro, Ralph Humphrey, Michael Shapiro, Aaron Zerfaty, Randy Cook and Joey Heredia. Her fusion of Rock, Funk, Jazz, and Afro-Cuban contribute to her unique style.
Meytal has collaborated, recorded, and performed in tours in the U.S., Australia, South America and Europe with some of the biggest names in the Hollywood music industry: N.E.R.D, Chromeo, Nelly Furtado, Metaphor and more.
Meytal's drumming has been featured on numerous TV shows and films, including: "Jimmy Kimmel Live Show", "The Kerrianne Kennerly Show" (Australia), "The Heartbreak Kid" (Ben Stiller) and more.
Currently, Meytal invests a great deal of time and efforts into her online videos project "Meytal", a project that has been getting massive worldwide exposure and support, and has been viewed by millions of fans and industry professionals all over the world, including Vinnie Paul (Pantera), Shavo Odadjian (System Of A Down), Jonas Akerlund (Music Video Director - Madonna, Beyonce, Lady Gaga and more) to name a few.
Meytal is an official endorsee of Vic Firth, DC California Drum, Soultone Cymbals and Behringer Microphones.
and this is her vieos which I saw at the first time I found her on youtube click here to watch the videos
Cobus Potgieter
Cobus Potgieter is a 22-year-old drummer from South Africa. He has become internationally recognised for his videos on YouTube, which have received over 17,700,000 views to date.
Cobus Potgieter was born in Humansdorp, South Africa, where he started to play drums at the age of 16. Potgieter posted his first video, *Nsnyc - Pop, on YouTube in late 2007, and it has become one of his top viewed videos since, totaling over 1.4 million views. He has also made appearances on a few South African television shows . As well as in the local and international press , media and radio.
Potgieter currently resides in Bloemfontein, South Africa. His first language is Afrikaans but he is also a fluent speaker of English.
He is a member and drummer of the band Inslowmotion.
YouTube Fame
The South-African 'Youtube' Drummer started posting videos on August 6, 2006, with "Quick Drum Solo"
He has posted several different series of videos on his YouTube channel, each using different camera angles and editing techniques. His first series was the "Overhead Series" featuring 10 videos. In June 2007, he released the "Tri-Cam" series featuring 7 videos, then the "Dual-Cam" series with 3 videos and then The "Blister" series with 6 videos (including Potgieter's Most Viewed Video, "Face Down" by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus in February 2008 wich has totaled over 1.5 million views ). After a long break, his fans began to expect Potgieter to upload more videos. During this time his YouTube subscribers started growing and he soon became one of YouTube's [http://www.youtube.com/members?sms&ta&g1&c0&to0&nb0&p=1 top 100 musicians]
On November 11, 2008, Cobus Potgieter uploaded the "Hybrid" series (named so because of the use of acoustic and electric kits together), with a mind blowing 17 videos, including Avenged Sevenfold's Afterlife, Vanilla Sky's Umbrella (a Rihanna cover), the Jonas Brothers' Burnin' Up, as well as his own drum solo to name but a few. On May 13, 2009, Cobus annnounced via his Facebook fan page that he would release a new series of videos entitled "The White Series". This series was going to be "one of the most epic to date", and the release date was set for mid July 2009
On hearing the news of the death of the King of pop Michael Jackson Potgieter recorded a 'Mini-tribute Series' to the artist and included tracks like 'Beat it', 'Black or White', 'Smooth Criminal' and 'Billie Jean'. This 'Mini-tribute Series' topped over 100 000 views in just four days. His drum cover of 'Beat it' taking the title of 2nd most rated video by a musician on YouTube in just its second day of release.
Cobus Potgieter cites Tony Royster Jr., Derico Watson, Carter Beauford, Travis Barker, Mike Portnoy, Thomas Lang as his main drumming influences.
Career
Potgieter is currently studying Engineering as a major in college. He is also pursuing a career in Drumming.
Potgieter is also in the proccess of producing a DVD that he will release to be sold via his website to all of his fans, in the last quarter of 2009. This DVD is aimed to be both an Instructional and Documentary DVD, teaching drummers and wannabe drummers different techniques and practice routines. Potgieter will discuss in detail the production and post production of his YouTube videos and how to achieve a professional sound when recording drums. It will also have a documentary on the life of Cobus Potgieter, who he is as a person, his rise in YouTube success and some other personal insights from the drummer.
Religious views
Potgieter is a self-proclaimed Christian. He states the following on his own website: "I hate calling myself a Christian because of all the labels attached to it, BUT I love saying that I cannot live without my relationship with God. I didn’t have any choice about being able to drum, I was born with it and it’s something I am endlessly blessed with, you can’t shape a diamond if you don’t have one :) so.. Laus Deo Semper."
Cobus Potgieter was born in Humansdorp, South Africa, where he started to play drums at the age of 16. Potgieter posted his first video, *Nsnyc - Pop, on YouTube in late 2007, and it has become one of his top viewed videos since, totaling over 1.4 million views. He has also made appearances on a few South African television shows . As well as in the local and international press , media and radio.
Potgieter currently resides in Bloemfontein, South Africa. His first language is Afrikaans but he is also a fluent speaker of English.
He is a member and drummer of the band Inslowmotion.
YouTube Fame
The South-African 'Youtube' Drummer started posting videos on August 6, 2006, with "Quick Drum Solo"
He has posted several different series of videos on his YouTube channel, each using different camera angles and editing techniques. His first series was the "Overhead Series" featuring 10 videos. In June 2007, he released the "Tri-Cam" series featuring 7 videos, then the "Dual-Cam" series with 3 videos and then The "Blister" series with 6 videos (including Potgieter's Most Viewed Video, "Face Down" by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus in February 2008 wich has totaled over 1.5 million views ). After a long break, his fans began to expect Potgieter to upload more videos. During this time his YouTube subscribers started growing and he soon became one of YouTube's [http://www.youtube.com/members?sms&ta&g1&c0&to0&nb0&p=1 top 100 musicians]
On November 11, 2008, Cobus Potgieter uploaded the "Hybrid" series (named so because of the use of acoustic and electric kits together), with a mind blowing 17 videos, including Avenged Sevenfold's Afterlife, Vanilla Sky's Umbrella (a Rihanna cover), the Jonas Brothers' Burnin' Up, as well as his own drum solo to name but a few. On May 13, 2009, Cobus annnounced via his Facebook fan page that he would release a new series of videos entitled "The White Series". This series was going to be "one of the most epic to date", and the release date was set for mid July 2009
On hearing the news of the death of the King of pop Michael Jackson Potgieter recorded a 'Mini-tribute Series' to the artist and included tracks like 'Beat it', 'Black or White', 'Smooth Criminal' and 'Billie Jean'. This 'Mini-tribute Series' topped over 100 000 views in just four days. His drum cover of 'Beat it' taking the title of 2nd most rated video by a musician on YouTube in just its second day of release.
Cobus Potgieter cites Tony Royster Jr., Derico Watson, Carter Beauford, Travis Barker, Mike Portnoy, Thomas Lang as his main drumming influences.
Career
Potgieter is currently studying Engineering as a major in college. He is also pursuing a career in Drumming.
Potgieter is also in the proccess of producing a DVD that he will release to be sold via his website to all of his fans, in the last quarter of 2009. This DVD is aimed to be both an Instructional and Documentary DVD, teaching drummers and wannabe drummers different techniques and practice routines. Potgieter will discuss in detail the production and post production of his YouTube videos and how to achieve a professional sound when recording drums. It will also have a documentary on the life of Cobus Potgieter, who he is as a person, his rise in YouTube success and some other personal insights from the drummer.
Religious views
Potgieter is a self-proclaimed Christian. He states the following on his own website: "I hate calling myself a Christian because of all the labels attached to it, BUT I love saying that I cannot live without my relationship with God. I didn’t have any choice about being able to drum, I was born with it and it’s something I am endlessly blessed with, you can’t shape a diamond if you don’t have one :) so.. Laus Deo Semper."
Ricky Ficarelli
And that's all my favourites drummers that I found on youtube.com. But I still have an Indonesian drummers
JP MILENIX
JP Millenix IMB or Indonesia to find talent is one of the contestants in the competition to find talent in one private TV in the homeland, there was a girl drummer who play drums quite powerfull he is Jaanitra Priyanka Millenix. or better known by his stage name JP Millenix, a girl born Jakarta 1 January 2000, this shows remarkable talent so that it can penetrate into the final round in Indonesia Looking for talent with this supermi Before attending the event this IMB JP already has some achievements YAMAHA Competition champion 2 March 2009 at the Supermall Karawaci, favorite drummer in Melodia Kids Drum Competition, other than that there are many more achievements by a girl who at 10 years The girl who idolized, Lars Ulrich from Metallica and Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater, JP often plays rock genre song with a double pedal that is not easily played by many people. JP Millenix, got to know the world of music since the age of 4 years.However, interest in the drums made him switch from the piano which was taught to him. In the following years spent practicing at JP with Purwatjaraka's music school. Her goal as a professional drummer drum teacher is also strongly supported by various activities that she do now. However, JP was never to leave school, to keep learning even though he was in quarantine IMB.
check her videos when she colaborate with one of her jury, Titi Sjuman click here to watch the videos
