{"id":8470,"date":"2018-03-01T08:40:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/blog\/?p=8470"},"modified":"2022-08-22T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:01:44","slug":"hit-like-a-girl-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/hit-like-a-girl-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2018 Hit Like A Girl Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8476 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28134250\/Untitled-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28134250\/Untitled-18.jpg 620w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28134250\/Untitled-18.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28134250\/Untitled-18.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hitlikeagirlcontest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hit Like A Girl<\/a>, the international drum contest for female drummers, is starting on March 1st &#8212; and at Drumeo, we\u2019re so proud to be sponsoring the event that spotlights female drummers\/percussionists and encourages lifelong musicianship for girls and women, regardless of age or playing level.<\/p>\n<p>In its seventh year, Hit Like A Girl has empowered more females to become players &#8212; giving them the opportunity to showcase their skills with a 3-minute drumming video and receive feedback from celebrity judges including Emmanuelle Caplette, Hannah Welton, Yissy Garcia, Collette Williams, Peter Erskine, Kaz Rodriguez, Dom Famularo, and Aaron Spears.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8472 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28133927\/Judges-Cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28133927\/Judges-Cat.jpg 980w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28133927\/Judges-Cat.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28133927\/Judges-Cat.jpg 768w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28133927\/Judges-Cat.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake a look at bands, orchestras, drum lines, drum schools, drum media, drum festivals around the world and you\u2019ll see a huge increase in the quantity, quality and influence of female drummers,\u201d says Hit Like A Girl co-founder David Levine. \u201cThe companies sponsoring Hit Like A Girl are the companies that are supporting the growth of female drumming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All female amateur drummers, percussionists, and programmers are encouraged to participate. Solos, covers, or gigs are all fair game. Just make sure to showcase your skills.<\/p>\n<p>Click here for the contest guidelines, submission details, judges list, and more: <a href=\"https:\/\/hitlikeagirlcontest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.hitlikeagirlcontest.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video by Faith Benson &#8211; the 2017 champion!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z_1_TBXW1dw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hit Like A Girl, the international drum contest for female drummers, is starting on March 1st &#8212; and at Drumeo, we\u2019re so proud to be sponsoring the event that spotlights female drummers\/percussionists and encourages lifelong musicianship for girls and women, regardless of age or playing level. In its seventh year, Hit Like A Girl has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019],"tags":[13,408],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8470"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10304,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions\/10304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}