Reg Dewitt
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One positive development in recent decades has been a huge explosion in women's drumming. It used to be female drummers were very rare, but now they're very common. I think there are a number of reasons for this, including feminism, online tutorials, the Hit Like A Girl Contest, and people promoting female drumming.
One of these people has been Alizee Defan. Alizee is a professional promoter, and as part of her work for over a decade she has run a YouTube channel (originally under the the name Alizee Lilly) that promotes young female musicians, mostly asian, with the focus on guitar players and drummers. Her favorite drummers include Senri Kawaguchi, Yoyoka Soma, Kanade Sato, Junna, Kalonica Nicx, Nur Amira Syahira, and Sina.
Her videos have gotten a lot of views and introduced a lot of people to great girl drummers. The Kanade Sato girl fools crowd at mall video got 30 million views, and it showed people a level of drumming most of them had never seen before. More generally, if you do a youtube search on girl drummer and set the filter to view count, 7 of the first 20 hits are videos she put up.
Some of the videos focus on a single drummer
But most of them are collections
I think everyone in the drumming community should be happy about the work Defan has done promoting women's drumming.
One of these people has been Alizee Defan. Alizee is a professional promoter, and as part of her work for over a decade she has run a YouTube channel (originally under the the name Alizee Lilly) that promotes young female musicians, mostly asian, with the focus on guitar players and drummers. Her favorite drummers include Senri Kawaguchi, Yoyoka Soma, Kanade Sato, Junna, Kalonica Nicx, Nur Amira Syahira, and Sina.
Her videos have gotten a lot of views and introduced a lot of people to great girl drummers. The Kanade Sato girl fools crowd at mall video got 30 million views, and it showed people a level of drumming most of them had never seen before. More generally, if you do a youtube search on girl drummer and set the filter to view count, 7 of the first 20 hits are videos she put up.
Some of the videos focus on a single drummer
But most of them are collections
I think everyone in the drumming community should be happy about the work Defan has done promoting women's drumming.
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