For decades, if not forever before, the world has known of the female drummer Karen Carpenter (and even then primarily of her as a singer). Then suddenly, seemingly in 2026, there is this massive whopping surge of female drummers. I did not go looking; it flooded upon me. Is it swamping your youtube feed also?
Someone might think I’ve been under a rock on Mars (Greenland?), but this does not feel organic at all; it feels like some kind of agenda. Like female body builders when they all came out and about, all at once, from some bottomless nowhere, and then fizzled to the ongoing onslaught of pilates-gymsters.
Not a put-down. Glad they exist. I’m questioning the incredible, abrupt media LASER focus — Why Now?
500 female drummers on youtube, out of nowhere. Had you any idea?
1. Anika Nilles
2. Senri Kawaguchi
3. Meytal Cohen
4. Dorothea Taylor
5. Nandi Bushell
6. Sheila E.
7. Cindy Blackman Santana
8. Terri Lyne Carrington
9. Sarah Thawer
10. Sina Doering
11. Tarn Softwhip
12. Domino Santantonio
13. Camille Bigeault
14. Kristina Schiano
15. Nikki Glaspie
16. Hannah Welton
17. Emmanuelle Caplette
18. Jess Bowen
19. Samantha Maloney
20. Janet Weiss
21. Meg White
22. Patty Schemel
23. Georgia Hubley
24. Moe Tucker
25. Gina Schock
26. Sandy West
27. Dee Plakas
28. Linda Pitmon
29. Kate Schellenbach
30. Torry Castellano
31. Caroline Corr
32. Stella Mozgawa
33. Fay Milton
34. Alice de Buhr
35. Jody Linscott
36. Karen Carpenter
37. Viola Smith
38. Honey Lantree
39. June Miles-Kingston
40. Debbi Peterson
41. Tobi Vail
42. Lori Barbero
43. Mercedes Lander
44. Athena Lee
45. Roxy Petrucci
46. Maxine Petrucci
47. Jen Ledger
48. Taylor Gordon
49. Madame Gandhi
50. Allison Miller
51. Didi Negron
52. Kim Thompson
53. Sarah Jones
54. Cherisse Osei
55. Emily Dolan Davies
56. Dena Tauriello
57. Alicia Warrington
58. Samantha Landa
59. Lux Drummerette
60. Mona Tavakoli
61. Stefanie Eulinberg
62. Elaine Bradley
63. Stephanie Bailey
64. Laura Fares
65. Brooke Colucci
66. Paulina Villarreal
67. Daniela Villarreal
68. Akane Hirose
69. Miki Tsunoda
70. Kanade Sato
71. Yoyoka Soma
72. Chiaki Sato
73. Tamu Murata
74. Marina Bozzio
75. Angie Scarpa
76. Hilary Jones
77. Susie Ibarra
78. Val Jeanty
79. Shirazette Tinnin
80. Migdalia van der Hoven
81. Ciara Chinniah
82. Veronica Bellino
83. Sarah Tomek
84. Maya Tuttle
85. Brittney Bowman
86. Faith Benson
87. Chloë Saavedra
88. Jess Goodwin
89. Kristina Rybalchenko
90. Eleni Nota
91. Marta Roma
92. Tamara Picardo
93. Brittany Bowman
94. Becca Webster
95. Nikki McBrain?
96. Rachel Raps
97. Layne Redmond
98. Valerie Naranjo
99. Evelyn Glennie
100. Dame Evelyn Glennie
101. Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph
102. Angelica Sanchez
103. Claudia Gonson
104. Rosie Slater
105. Sarah Lund
106. Carla Azar
107. Janet Beveridge Bean
108. Jean Cook
109. Lindy Morrison
110. Paloma McLardy
111. Mimi Parker
112. Jaleh Gilanpour
113. Rachel Blumberg
114. Janet Lee Carey
115. Ruth Underwood
116. Jeanette Landray
117. Emily Robison
118. Sarah Ogan Gunning
119. Anne Paceo
120. Eva Klesse
121. Kassa Overall’s collaborators — search “female jazz drummer”
122. Yissy García
123. Lucía Martínez
124. Rosa Avila
125. Sylvia Cuenca
126. Sherrie Maricle
127. Dottie Dodgion
128. Pauline Braddy
129. Viola Smith
130. Ann “Honey” Lantree
131. Karen Teperberg
132. Dafnis Prieto student features — search “female Latin drummer”
133. Amy Wood
134. Lauren Brown
135. Rosie Danvers
136. Georgina Leach
137. Rebecca Judd
138. Sarah Wimberley
139. Cat Myers
140. Laura Kidd
141. Soph Nathan
142. Hannah Blilie
143. Patty Schemel
144. Theresa Wayman
145. Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa
146. Melinda Sullivan
147. Brigitte Zarie
148. Tatsuya Yoshida collabs — search “female Japanese drummer”
149. Satomi Matsuzaki percussion clips
150. Yoshimi P-We
151. Sachiko Fujii
152. Mutsumi Takahashi
153. Chihiro Yamazaki
154. Sayaka Miyauchi
155. Miki Furukawa
156. Miyoko Yamaguchi
157. Kyoko Mori
158. Kaori Takahashi
159. Eri Shibata
160. Tomomi Yoshida
161. Fumi Tanakadate
162. Shiori Hasegawa
163. Miyu Yamamoto
164. Haruna Ono
165. Rina Suzuki
166. Mami Sasazaki
167. Tomomi Ogawa
168. Band-Maid Akane
169. Nemophila Tamu Murata
170. Lovebites Haruna
171. Gacharic Spin Hana
172. Gacharic Spin Yuri
173. Bridear Natsumi
174. Mary’s Blood Mari
175. Aldious Marina
176. Silent Siren Hinanchu
177. Tricot Ikkyu Nakajima percussion clips
178. Yonige Shibata drum clips
179. Kanami Tono drum collabs
180. Shishamo Misaki Yoshikawa
181. Yuna Fukuda
182. Toko Furuuchi drum covers
183. Chisato Moritaka
184. Midori Tatematsu
185. Mika Yoshida
186. Yukiko Okamoto
187. Noriko Terada
188. Maki Watase
189. Tomoko Inoue
190. Eri Uchida
191. Akiko Yano percussion clips
192. Hiromi Uehara drum features with women
193. Chihiro Yamazaki+Route14 percussion
194. Maiko Nakamura
195. Ayaka Tachibana
196. Kana Omori
197. Mayu Wakisaka
198. Saki percussion features
199. Yukari Katsuki
200. Rei Kuromiya drum clips
201. Susie Ibarra
202. Ikue Mori
203. Midori Takada
204. Keiko Abe
205. Kuniko Kato
206. Ayano Kataoka
207. Haruka Fujii
208. Rika Fujii
209. Mika Takehara
210. Mari Kimura percussion clips
211. Claire Edwardes
212. Dame Evelyn Glennie
213. Dame Cleo Laine percussion features
214. Beatrice Dillon
215. Valentina Magaletti
216. Andrea Belfi collabs with female percussionists
217. Lê Quan Ninh collabs — search women percussion
218. Camille Émaille
219. Núria Andorrà
220. Vanessa Porter
221. Vivi Vassileva
222. Gene Koshinski collabs — women marimba
223. Katarzyna Myćka
224. Ivana Bilić
225. Thea Florea
226. Marta Klimasara
227. Svet Stoyanov student features
228. Magdalena Kordylasińska
229. Miłosz Pękala collabs — women percussion
230. Marianna Bednarska
231. Pius Cheung collabs — women marimba
232. Ji Hye Jung
233. She-e Wu
234. Nancy Zeltsman
235. Leigh Howard Stevens students — female marimba
236. Beverley Johnston
237. Julie Spencer
238. Svetlana Rudenko
239. Svetlana Smolina percussion clips
240. Tatiana Koleva
241. Dominique Vleeshouwers collabs — women percussion
242. Hsin-Hsuan Wu
243. Pei-Ching Wu
244. Chin Cheng Lin collabs — women marimba
245. Tchiki Duo female percussionists
246. arx duo collaborators
247. So Percussion guest women
248. Third Coast Percussion guest women
249. Sandbox Percussion guest women
250. Yarn/Wire guest women
251. Kiran Gandhi
252. Madame Gandhi
253. Alicia Warrington
254. Didi Negron
255. Yvette Preyer
256. Tasha Jones
257. Taylor Gordon
258. The Pocket Queen
259. Teresa Topaz
260. Nikki Glaspie
261. Dena Tauriello
262. Stefanie Eulinberg
263. Elaine Bradley
264. Sarah Jones
265. Mona Tavakoli
266. Maya Tuttle
267. Jess Bowen
268. Samantha Maloney
269. Athena Lee
270. Sandy West
271. Gina Schock
272. Debbi Peterson
273. Caroline Corr
274. Torry Castellano
275. Kate Schellenbach
276. Patty Schemel
277. Janet Weiss
278. Meg White
279. Mimi Parker
280. Georgia Hubley
281. Dee Plakas
282. Lori Barbero
283. Tobi Vail
284. Fay Milton
285. Rosie Slater
286. Cat Myers
287. Sarah Lund
288. Stella Mozgawa
289. Claudia Gonson
290. Sharin Foo percussion clips
291. Alison Mosshart percussion clips
292. Carla Azar
293. Janet Beveridge Bean
294. Lindy Morrison
295. Paloma McLardy
296. Rachel Blumberg
297. Hannah Blilie
298. Brann Dailor collabs — search female drum covers
299. Maureen Tucker
300. Viola Smith
301. Cherisse Osei
302. Emily Dolan Davies
303. Sian Monaghan
304. Anna Prior
305. Fay Milton
306. Becca Macintyre percussion clips
307. Laura-Mary Carter drum clips
308. Soph Nathan
309. Abi Harding percussion clips
310. Sarah deCourcy percussion clips
311. Ellie Rowsell drum clips
312. Fliss Kitson
313. Alice Go
314. Lauren Mayberry drum clips
315. Debbie Googe drum clips
316. Miki Berenyi percussion clips
317. Rachel Aggs percussion clips
318. Georgia South percussion clips
319. Jenny Lee Lindberg drum clips
320. Stella Mozgawa
321. Sarah Jones
322. Jess Cox
323. Christina Wood percussion clips
324. Ellie East
325. Laura Bettinson percussion clips
326. Georgia Ellery percussion clips
327. Abigail Morris drum clips
328. Romy Madley Croft drum clips
329. Amy Love percussion clips
330. Georgia Barnes percussion clips
331. Jen Macro
332. Anna Calvi percussion clips
333. Hannah Peel percussion clips
334. Serafina Steer percussion clips
335. Mica Levi percussion clips
336. Tirzah percussion clips
337. Kelly Lee Owens percussion clips
338. Hannah Holland percussion clips
339. Loraine James percussion clips
340. Coby Sey collaborators — women percussion
341. Nabihah Iqbal percussion clips
342. Lafawndah percussion clips
343. Marie Davidson drum-machine percussion
344. Planningtorock percussion clips
345. Gazelle Twin percussion clips
346. Eartheater percussion clips
347. Moor Mother percussion clips
348. Valentina Magaletti
349. Raquel Martins percussion clips
350. Coby Sey guest female drummers
351. Mercedes Lander
352. Mercedes Arn-Horn
353. Jess Margera collabs — women drum covers
354. Jen Ledger
355. Nita Strauss band drummers — women features
356. Samantha Landa
357. Brittney Slayes percussion clips
358. Roxy Petrucci
359. Maxine Petrucci
360. Athena Lee
361. Jackie Chambers drum clips
362. Doro Pesch band female drummers — search
363. Eleni Nota
364. Luana Dametto
365. Fernanda Terra
366. Mayara Puertas percussion clips
367. Pitchu Ferraz
368. Fernanda Lira drum clips
369. Prika Amaral drum clips
370. Nena Kautschitsch
371. Britta Görtz drum clips
372. Larissa Stupar drum clips
373. Kat Shevil Gillham percussion clips
374. Laura Guldemond percussion clips
375. Clementine Delauney percussion clips
376. Lena Scissorhands percussion clips
377. Floor Jansen drum clips
378. Simone Simons percussion clips
379. Sharon den Adel percussion clips
380. Alissa White-Gluz percussion clips
381. Angela Gossow percussion clips
382. Otep Shamaya percussion clips
383. Krysta Cameron percussion clips
384. Courtney LaPlante percussion clips
385. Tatiana Shmayluk percussion clips
386. Alexis Brown percussion clips
387. Karyn Crisis percussion clips
388. Kimberly Goss percussion clips
389. Liv Kristine percussion clips
390. Anneke van Giersbergen percussion clips
391. Cristina Scabbia percussion clips
392. Lena Abé drum clips
393. Ashley Costello drum clips
394. Lzzy Hale drum clips
395. Arejay Hale collaborations with women drummers
396. Taylor Momsen drum clips
397. Brody Dalle percussion clips
398. Juliette Lewis drum clips
399. Donita Sparks percussion clips
400. Suzi Quatro drum clips
401. Sarah Thawer
402. Anika Nilles
403. Cindy Blackman Santana
404. Terri Lyne Carrington
405. Sheila E.
406. Anne Paceo
407. Sherrie Maricle
408. Sylvia Cuenca
409. Allison Miller
410. Shirazette Tinnin
411. Rosa Avila
412. Yissy García
413. Lucía Martínez
414. Dottie Dodgion
415. Viola Smith
416. Pauline Braddy
417. Ginger Smock percussion clips
418. Clora Bryant percussion clips
419. Mary Lou Williams percussion features
420. Terry Pollard vibraphone/percussion
421. Marjorie Hyams vibraphone
422. Margie Hyams
423. Terry Gibbs guest women vibraphonists
424. Sasha Berliner
425. Patricia Brennan
426. Cecilia Smith
427. Stefon Harris collaborators — women mallets
428. Angel Bat Dawid percussion clips
429. Jaimie Branch percussion clips
430. Tomeka Reid percussion clips
431. Nicole Mitchell percussion clips
432. Matana Roberts percussion clips
433. Brandee Younger percussion clips
434. Tia Fuller percussion clips
435. Lakecia Benjamin percussion clips
436. Nubya Garcia percussion clips
437. Cassie Kinoshi percussion clips
438. Camilla George percussion clips
439. Yazz Ahmed percussion clips
440. Esperanza Spalding percussion clips
441. Linda May Han Oh percussion clips
442. Kris Davis percussion clips
443. Myra Melford percussion clips
444. Ingrid Laubrock percussion clips
445. Mary Halvorson percussion clips
446. Tyshawn Sorey collaborators — women percussion
447. Tomeka Reid quartet percussion features
448. Maria Schneider Orchestra women percussion features
449. Darcy James Argue Secret Society women percussion
450. Jazzmeia Horn percussion clips
451. Valerie Naranjo
452. Layne Redmond
453. Glen Velez female students — frame drum
454. Zohar Fresco female students — frame drum
455. Miranda Rondeau
456. Alessandra Belloni
457. Layne Redmond frame drum
458. Kalyani Roy tabla
459. Anuradha Pal
460. Rimpa Siva
461. Sukanya Ramgopal
462. Bickram Ghosh collaborators — women tabla
463. Debashree Bhattacharya tabla clips
464. Srijani Dan tabla
465. Radhika Veena percussion clips
466. Heena Patel tabla
467. Vidushi Aban Mistry
468. Taalyogi female tabla students
469. Abbos Kosimov female students — doira
470. Naghmeh Farahmand
471. Sogol Mirzaei percussion clips
472. Azam Ali percussion clips
473. Hamin Honari female daf collaborators
474. Maryam Saleh percussion clips
475. Yshai Afterman female percussion guests
476. Abbos Kosimov women doira performances
477. Keita Ogawa female percussion guests
478. Pedrito Martinez female percussion guests
479. Sheila E. timbales
480. La India percussion clips
481. Brenda Navarrete
482. Yissy García
483. Xiomara Laugart percussion clips
484. Lucrecia percussion clips
485. Susana Baca percussion clips
486. Eva Ayllón percussion clips
487. Totó la Momposina percussion clips
488. Magín Díaz female percussion ensemble guests
489. Pitti Hecht
490. Bateria de escola de samba female drummers
491. Lan Lanh
492. Simone Sou percussion
493. Alessandra Leão percussion
494. Karina Buhr percussion
495. Daniela Mercury percussion clips
496. Margareth Menezes percussion clips
497. Badi Assad percussion clips
498. Cássia Eller percussion clips
499. Adriana Calcanhotto percussion clips
500. Bebel Gilberto percussion clips