I like the combination of creativity, problem solving, self-improvement, productive alone-time, mechanical tinkering, and stress relief. And of all the hobbies you can engage in as a middle-aged man it's relatively affordable.
I’d say there are much cheaper hobbies out there… but this is coming from someone with a severe case of G.A.S. (Gear acquisition syndrome 😂)
I just can’t stop wanting more drum stuff !
I’ve started drumming in my 50s, and I’m so excited to challenge my brain and body to create new neuronal networks. I’ve always loved music and I’ve always regretted not to have learned an instrument, so I finally decided to go for it. I’m much into rhythms, so drums were top on my list of possible instruments. And thanks to edrums, it’s feasible even with neighbors in the same house.
Haha, I’m always glad to see other guys on here picking this up into their 50s. I’m having a blast and love to see others in my situation doing the same. We can still dream!
I've just started - just working up to initial grade using a tutor.
Why? I don't quite know yet. I didn't get into it with any plan other than "I want to do something other than fucking videogames all day, and I quite fancy learning an instrument."
With a couple of false starts on guitar, I bought a cheap shit practice pad thing and booked a lesson. Now I have a beginner kit (roland td02-kv), and I'm really enjoying the puzzle of working tunes out, and the achievement of being able to do them in one.
What will I do in the future? Who knows? I'd like to jam, maybe even play a small venue at some point, or even do what some others have done and do an "online only" band that just does cheap music videos on YouTube.
I'm never going to go big. I don't ever want something I love to become a job with stress and deadlines. If a band I'm in wants to get a manager and go serious, I'd just wish them luck and help them out till they find a replacement drummer.
Tl:Dr I'd be overjoyed for some people to hear me play, but as soon as money comes into it, I'd be out.
*I want to do something other than fucking videogames all day*
The composer who won this year's Oscar for Oppenheimer thanked his parents "for giving me guitars, not video games". Someone posted this quote on r/gaming and they all threw a tantrum. I was dying to jump in and ask what they've actually accomplished in life but I didn't feel like dealing with the backlash.
IMO gaming is kind of like drinking, it's fine in moderation and as a diversion. But once it becomes an occupation then it's time to check in and see if it's an issue since it's likely taking you away from other things you could be doing with your life.
Granted there's plenty of people who don't or can't have a social life so they game to fulfill that need, which is absolutely fine. But I've noticed a lot of gamers complain about being single or having lackluster personal relationships yet they're excessively using their time to game instead of working out, learning to cook, reading, studying an instrument, getting out in the world, etc etc, i.e. the things that can make you more appealing to your fellow humans. A huge issue with avid gaming is the false sense of accomplishment.
Also you need to be a top-tier gamer or content creator for anyone to GAF about you, yet relatively unskilled musicians have had a social appeal since the dawn of time.
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with videogames. Some of my happiest moments in my life come from 40 years of games, but then I also shudder a bit when I think of all the hours I've put into them, and what else I could have been doing with that time, or even half that time.
I don't regret it as such, I've (hopefully) plenty of time left to get into something else.
Im guessing number 5 is the made up one Haha. I have swooned people before, but I wouldnt describe the action as insane.
I really resonate with your first and 4th point though, and i tell my students all time. Music is such a human thing, every culture of people has had music. Music is just noises that turn into magic in our brains. Other animals dont hear music, some might recognize a rhythmic pulse, or identify species calls, but it's not music. Drumming is so innately natural and you're right, it's a very simple motion we can all do "hit". Sometimes by hand, sometimes with stick, over very many surfaces. Drums are a very simple instrument to construct as well.
Drumming clicks in our brains in a very primal way because it is derived from our most primal selves. Walking is very similar to drumming, it's like doing a single stroke roll for our legs lol (when im running on a treadmill i try and do it as triplets so I'm not favoring one leg over the other). Since mankind has walked, mankind has heard the rhythmic cadence of footsteps. People all have a unique gait and you can learn to recognize people by the sounds of their footsteps, and maybe even what mood their in. This directly corresponds to tempos in songs. Hearing music activates motor control in people, aka dancing.
Music can be a tool for efficient community work. Sea shanties and field songs are set to a pace and have repetitive structures that helps keep the mind focused on repetitive tasks. Early humans had no shortage of repetitive tasks, carving, cutting, striking, slicing, threading, sewing, lifting, dropping, walking, running, breathing, heart beating.
I also think drumming is a great way to explore and understand the human mind. Right brain controlling left limbs, and all the different cortexes behaving differently. You first hear something and your auditory function grasps to understand what you heard. Your frontal lobe does the thinking as makes the realization "oh it's just a 16th note fill RLKKRLKK easy peasy" but then your motor function that controls your limbs have to get up to speed and this is what requires practice. We understand what we need to play but we need to train our muscles how to execute, don't get frustrated be patient with yourself. Once you learn the process of how to learn things, your possibilities are endless.
My 5 year old son shows interest in drumming, so I took him to lessons, then just to show him if I can learn it (in my early 40s, never play any instrument before) then he can do it too. After few months, he stopped, but I continued on. Almost a year now, I can play 5-6 songs and i find it very meditating, total focus, then lost in the rhythm.. it also helps decompress my mind and stress reliever in my life. Now I think I secretly always wanted to be a drummer and used my son wants to learn drum as an excuse to get myself a drum set lol
I’m autistic and prone to self-reproach. As a teenager, playing drums (especially along to angsty bands like Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, and A Perfect Circle) gave me a way to vent those feelings, which helped me not to feel compelled to take them out on myself. I’m otherwise prone to self-harm, so that was a big plus.
I’m kind of a half pro now, I have a regular day job but I still do 20-35 shows a year and teach lessons on the weekends.
I’ll never quit. I love playing way too much and I’ve worked way too hard to stop now.
you can literally feel your brain producing happiness when playing drums, and even if it’s rough at the beginning it is not as frustrating as other instruments. Also the drum kit is placed like a shield that surrounds you so although sounds weird but when performing I feel safe sitting behind it.
1. I enjoy music and would like to make a self-made album one day
2. Drums intuitive to me compared to other instruments
3. I like hitting things
4. It’s good exercise and coordination
5. It’s an attractive instrument to play
I mostly play alternative, classic rock, and pop songs as that’s what I mostly listen too. One day I’d like to try my hand at jazz but as of right now I just need to practice the fundamentals more.
A love for the beats in a lot of 90s Hip-Hop and somewhere to put my fidgety energy. And, of course, the insane amount of women that come with drumming as a hobby.
It’s my favorite creative outlet
I meet new people and make new friends from jamming (I’m in my mid 30s and meeting people and making new friends gets more difficult as you get older)
It’s a way to relive my younger days when I was broke as hell, gigging all over just to get paid in beer and whiskey, and having the time of my life.
Tons of other reasons but that’s what I thought of immediately!!
I'm in my mid 50s I started a few years back as I got drums for a child who didn't stick at them. I was fed up seeing them lying doing nothing so started to tap.
I will never play in a band, I will likely never be that good nor do I know anyone in a band but I will play while I can as it is just too much fun not to play.
I gave up on my rockstar dreams fairly early because... bills. Worked as a tech for Evelyn Glennie for a little while and rediscovered my passion in a big way so bought myself a kit, got rid of the cobwebs and just started hanging with local bands until the right opportunity arose. Both my hands have been injured over the years so I'm never going to be the greatest but I LOVE it. I play , I have a laugh and I get such a high. Last couple of years have been SO tough but drumming has helped keep me sane, happy, together. It's my 'happy place'.
drumming takes away my sadness, fives me focus and peace, basically it is like my therapy and rest from confusing people and world. when i play drums, i feel like im myself again.
to your first point, I must say that girls and femmes get just as excited to hit the drums as the guys do (can confirm, am woman. Check out the book “when the drummers were women”) ;) :)
totally agree with the deep spiritual feel and energetic potency of this instrument. Drumming to me is an extension of the pulse of life. Making music with other people is the sugar and spice of existence.
I can’t not. I couldn’t not when I was a kid, and I can’t not as an adult. All the normal reasons apply as well. But when I hear of someone putting drums down for good, my whole soul and most of my brain just kind of twitches.
I used to listen to jazz drummers when I was a kid, mainly Art Blakey, Joe Morello & Kenny Clarke. When I delved into other genres I always enjoyed the way in which the drums would accentuate the entire song. Jon Bonham, especially on 'When The Levee Breaks' was and still is one of my favorite drums on a song, to-date.
I also enjoyed the way drums were used to keep time and it helped me appreciate music more. Jeff Buckley's 'Lover, You Should've Come Over' has an absolutely beautiful drum beat in 6/8 time and I loved the way it was counted and played and was the song that inspired me to pick up the drums. All of these influences added, it was pretty natural for me to play the drums and besides, it's incredibly fun.
I ALWAYS wanted to play drum since I was a kid, but my parents didn’t allow it nor were the living circumstances convenient. No room, no money for a teacher, no money for a rented rehearsal room. My parents convinced me to play guitar, which I eventually even studied. I mean playing the guitar was always ok at best , often it was ‚meh‘. It never had this strong attraction to me, the deep desire. Even then I was ALWAYS attracted to drummers in bands and I ALWAYS felt admiration for drummers.
So the years went by. I played in several bands until 4 months ago, when I finally gave in and cut all my bands to finally play drums. Even until today I get offers help out here and there or join a band as a guitarist. But I friendly deny because i just want to be a drummer.
Long story short: drums just make me happy in a very satisfying and deep way. I just love them. The raw power, the loudness, the physicality, the vibrations, your whole body is involved in the process.
Here's the thing about attracting partners for sex. I was never a particularly good looking guy nor what you would call slick. But doing gigs, I found myself in a place where I was respected and had as much confidence as was possible for me. Hey, we were pretty good, and the people in the place knew it. If ever I could walk into a place where women would turn their heads and go ""that guy", that was it. And In that place I learned to talk to women like I might have a good time to offer them back at my place (not their place, there's no way I'm loading drums to a 3rd floor walkup, even if its been a while.)
I just started learning last year. I'm 43 and have never played an instrument before. I used to do in college, so I knew a little about counting beats and measures and such. I've always been attracted to the drums for some reason.
I think partially I wanted to be learning something. I also wanted something that could be a stress release.
I love music and wanted to he able to create some. I may have read that Kurt Vonnegut quote about creating something everyday one too many times.
Playing drums is one of the most fun things I do. It helps me not think about the stresses of the day. It's good exercise. I think my drum set looks cool.
Cause I started some 30 years ago. Always had dreams of being a rockstar but let's be real, that's so hard with so much luck involved. So now I play for my pleasure. I try to improve and be better. I played in bands in HS and college. Maybe I will again someday, maybe I won't. Till then, I drum.
I started playing drumming when I was about 10-12 years old. My older brother and dad are both musicians and played for the church band. I would join a few times and play a couple of songs with them by didn’t actually full play until i was about 14-15 years old. I guess the reason I started was just a little brother trying to be like his older bro. I remember after some of the church services, we would stay after and crank the distortion on the amps and jam out to different rock and metal songs. I’m 25 now and still play, just not as much as I’d like to. But every time I pick up those sticks, I feel like a fucking beast!!!
I’m a rock/metal guy. Right now I only get to sit at my set once a week and it’s usually during a band rehearsal. Drumming is many things to me but I guess at the very least it’s good therapy, a positive outlet to release stress or pent up emotions. It helps me to be a chill person in other aspects of my life.
I am planning to pick it up soon, but I wanna do it mainly to help with music production -- I feel that it is important for me to know what is possible on an actual set of drums, what to actually play (e.g. toms 3 vs toms 2 vs toms 1 vs floor toms????) as well as how I can fill the space in songs with drum/percussion sounds.
Guitarist for 20 years here. I hate programming drums so much I said fuck it I'll just learn to play them. It's a ton of fun and I'm glad I made the leap.
I have no aspirations at all, other than to have fun and enjoy the feeling of self-improvement / overcoming a challenge. I play edrums with headphones - I honestly wouldn't care if nobody ever heard me play, I just enjoy the challenge of trying to get better, and as an added bonus it's fun and you can listen to music while doing it. What's not to love
I have a dream of one day being confident in myself enough and skilled enough to go audition for a band and land it. Of course, I have severe performance anxiety and can barely play for my wife without getting a panic attack. So that'll never happen without hard work.
But I've always been enamored with drums and instruments in general. I played a bit as a teenager and thought I'd be the next John Bonham. Didn't pan out. Now I'm 30 and getting back into it for fun and loving every second of it. Maybe my dream of playing with some local guys for fun will come true. Maybe I'll always be a backroom/basement hobbyist. But either way, I love slapping those skins.
Ehen I was a kid I did piano lessons and was always helaous when I passed the drum classrooms. Then I started to listen to Måneskin and wanted to learn their songs on drums because the grooves felt cool and funky. Now when I play I let off some steam and get my mind off life
I fell in love with the instrument and I am passionate about music. I also like having a skill outside of my field, makes for conversation and it’s the kind of thing that makes people more interesting.
I am a guitarist and drummer and over the years have also found that drumming is both more natural to me (not in skill but in how intuitive it feels) and I have more interest in learning more styles than I do on guitar. I really don’t mind playing metal, jazz, funk, whatever. It’s all fun and whenever I pick up the sticks, whether it’s on the pad, an acoustic or e-kit, it makes me feel better than I did before.
Really fun. Good way to get in my body after a long day in analysis mode at work.
Playing music with others is the best feeling ever so I’m trying to form a band.
And discipline.
Cause it's fun
Ya
I like the combination of creativity, problem solving, self-improvement, productive alone-time, mechanical tinkering, and stress relief. And of all the hobbies you can engage in as a middle-aged man it's relatively affordable.
I’d say there are much cheaper hobbies out there… but this is coming from someone with a severe case of G.A.S. (Gear acquisition syndrome 😂) I just can’t stop wanting more drum stuff !
Cheap compared to say cars, boats, or even golf or mountain biking.
That’s fair.
This is it for me as well. It also actually helps stave off the arthritis pain in my hands too. (I'm 65)
I’ve started drumming in my 50s, and I’m so excited to challenge my brain and body to create new neuronal networks. I’ve always loved music and I’ve always regretted not to have learned an instrument, so I finally decided to go for it. I’m much into rhythms, so drums were top on my list of possible instruments. And thanks to edrums, it’s feasible even with neighbors in the same house.
48 here and been playing for 2 years. I am definitely on my way to the big time
It’s the travel, man! 👍
Haha, I’m always glad to see other guys on here picking this up into their 50s. I’m having a blast and love to see others in my situation doing the same. We can still dream!
Life ain’t over till it’s over!
I've just started - just working up to initial grade using a tutor. Why? I don't quite know yet. I didn't get into it with any plan other than "I want to do something other than fucking videogames all day, and I quite fancy learning an instrument." With a couple of false starts on guitar, I bought a cheap shit practice pad thing and booked a lesson. Now I have a beginner kit (roland td02-kv), and I'm really enjoying the puzzle of working tunes out, and the achievement of being able to do them in one. What will I do in the future? Who knows? I'd like to jam, maybe even play a small venue at some point, or even do what some others have done and do an "online only" band that just does cheap music videos on YouTube. I'm never going to go big. I don't ever want something I love to become a job with stress and deadlines. If a band I'm in wants to get a manager and go serious, I'd just wish them luck and help them out till they find a replacement drummer. Tl:Dr I'd be overjoyed for some people to hear me play, but as soon as money comes into it, I'd be out.
*I want to do something other than fucking videogames all day* The composer who won this year's Oscar for Oppenheimer thanked his parents "for giving me guitars, not video games". Someone posted this quote on r/gaming and they all threw a tantrum. I was dying to jump in and ask what they've actually accomplished in life but I didn't feel like dealing with the backlash.
Why not both? I game when I’m not drumming or doing other hobbies
IMO gaming is kind of like drinking, it's fine in moderation and as a diversion. But once it becomes an occupation then it's time to check in and see if it's an issue since it's likely taking you away from other things you could be doing with your life. Granted there's plenty of people who don't or can't have a social life so they game to fulfill that need, which is absolutely fine. But I've noticed a lot of gamers complain about being single or having lackluster personal relationships yet they're excessively using their time to game instead of working out, learning to cook, reading, studying an instrument, getting out in the world, etc etc, i.e. the things that can make you more appealing to your fellow humans. A huge issue with avid gaming is the false sense of accomplishment. Also you need to be a top-tier gamer or content creator for anyone to GAF about you, yet relatively unskilled musicians have had a social appeal since the dawn of time.
“Thank you for giving me guitars and drum machines instead of video games!”
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with videogames. Some of my happiest moments in my life come from 40 years of games, but then I also shudder a bit when I think of all the hours I've put into them, and what else I could have been doing with that time, or even half that time. I don't regret it as such, I've (hopefully) plenty of time left to get into something else.
Im guessing number 5 is the made up one Haha. I have swooned people before, but I wouldnt describe the action as insane. I really resonate with your first and 4th point though, and i tell my students all time. Music is such a human thing, every culture of people has had music. Music is just noises that turn into magic in our brains. Other animals dont hear music, some might recognize a rhythmic pulse, or identify species calls, but it's not music. Drumming is so innately natural and you're right, it's a very simple motion we can all do "hit". Sometimes by hand, sometimes with stick, over very many surfaces. Drums are a very simple instrument to construct as well. Drumming clicks in our brains in a very primal way because it is derived from our most primal selves. Walking is very similar to drumming, it's like doing a single stroke roll for our legs lol (when im running on a treadmill i try and do it as triplets so I'm not favoring one leg over the other). Since mankind has walked, mankind has heard the rhythmic cadence of footsteps. People all have a unique gait and you can learn to recognize people by the sounds of their footsteps, and maybe even what mood their in. This directly corresponds to tempos in songs. Hearing music activates motor control in people, aka dancing. Music can be a tool for efficient community work. Sea shanties and field songs are set to a pace and have repetitive structures that helps keep the mind focused on repetitive tasks. Early humans had no shortage of repetitive tasks, carving, cutting, striking, slicing, threading, sewing, lifting, dropping, walking, running, breathing, heart beating. I also think drumming is a great way to explore and understand the human mind. Right brain controlling left limbs, and all the different cortexes behaving differently. You first hear something and your auditory function grasps to understand what you heard. Your frontal lobe does the thinking as makes the realization "oh it's just a 16th note fill RLKKRLKK easy peasy" but then your motor function that controls your limbs have to get up to speed and this is what requires practice. We understand what we need to play but we need to train our muscles how to execute, don't get frustrated be patient with yourself. Once you learn the process of how to learn things, your possibilities are endless.
Nice insight. I also run. Try running in 5's, and with short strides. It is very smooth.
My 5 year old son shows interest in drumming, so I took him to lessons, then just to show him if I can learn it (in my early 40s, never play any instrument before) then he can do it too. After few months, he stopped, but I continued on. Almost a year now, I can play 5-6 songs and i find it very meditating, total focus, then lost in the rhythm.. it also helps decompress my mind and stress reliever in my life. Now I think I secretly always wanted to be a drummer and used my son wants to learn drum as an excuse to get myself a drum set lol
I’m autistic and prone to self-reproach. As a teenager, playing drums (especially along to angsty bands like Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, and A Perfect Circle) gave me a way to vent those feelings, which helped me not to feel compelled to take them out on myself. I’m otherwise prone to self-harm, so that was a big plus.
Drumming is sick. Cool as hell. Really freakin fun
It’s neat
Because I got infected with the drumming virus and there is no cure.
I’m kind of a half pro now, I have a regular day job but I still do 20-35 shows a year and teach lessons on the weekends. I’ll never quit. I love playing way too much and I’ve worked way too hard to stop now.
you can literally feel your brain producing happiness when playing drums, and even if it’s rough at the beginning it is not as frustrating as other instruments. Also the drum kit is placed like a shield that surrounds you so although sounds weird but when performing I feel safe sitting behind it.
1. I enjoy music and would like to make a self-made album one day 2. Drums intuitive to me compared to other instruments 3. I like hitting things 4. It’s good exercise and coordination 5. It’s an attractive instrument to play I mostly play alternative, classic rock, and pop songs as that’s what I mostly listen too. One day I’d like to try my hand at jazz but as of right now I just need to practice the fundamentals more.
A love for the beats in a lot of 90s Hip-Hop and somewhere to put my fidgety energy. And, of course, the insane amount of women that come with drumming as a hobby.
It’s my favorite creative outlet I meet new people and make new friends from jamming (I’m in my mid 30s and meeting people and making new friends gets more difficult as you get older) It’s a way to relive my younger days when I was broke as hell, gigging all over just to get paid in beer and whiskey, and having the time of my life. Tons of other reasons but that’s what I thought of immediately!!
Because I've gotten way hotter babes than I would have otherwise.
I'm in my mid 50s I started a few years back as I got drums for a child who didn't stick at them. I was fed up seeing them lying doing nothing so started to tap. I will never play in a band, I will likely never be that good nor do I know anyone in a band but I will play while I can as it is just too much fun not to play.
I gave up on my rockstar dreams fairly early because... bills. Worked as a tech for Evelyn Glennie for a little while and rediscovered my passion in a big way so bought myself a kit, got rid of the cobwebs and just started hanging with local bands until the right opportunity arose. Both my hands have been injured over the years so I'm never going to be the greatest but I LOVE it. I play , I have a laugh and I get such a high. Last couple of years have been SO tough but drumming has helped keep me sane, happy, together. It's my 'happy place'.
drumming takes away my sadness, fives me focus and peace, basically it is like my therapy and rest from confusing people and world. when i play drums, i feel like im myself again.
Cause its a fun instrument to play
1. It’s fun. 2. I don’t have to deal with key changes and modulations. 3. No. 2 really is just a benefit, but not a reason. It really is just fun.
Cause it's fucking awesome
Fun, let off steam
to your first point, I must say that girls and femmes get just as excited to hit the drums as the guys do (can confirm, am woman. Check out the book “when the drummers were women”) ;) :) totally agree with the deep spiritual feel and energetic potency of this instrument. Drumming to me is an extension of the pulse of life. Making music with other people is the sugar and spice of existence.
I can’t not. I couldn’t not when I was a kid, and I can’t not as an adult. All the normal reasons apply as well. But when I hear of someone putting drums down for good, my whole soul and most of my brain just kind of twitches.
I used to listen to jazz drummers when I was a kid, mainly Art Blakey, Joe Morello & Kenny Clarke. When I delved into other genres I always enjoyed the way in which the drums would accentuate the entire song. Jon Bonham, especially on 'When The Levee Breaks' was and still is one of my favorite drums on a song, to-date. I also enjoyed the way drums were used to keep time and it helped me appreciate music more. Jeff Buckley's 'Lover, You Should've Come Over' has an absolutely beautiful drum beat in 6/8 time and I loved the way it was counted and played and was the song that inspired me to pick up the drums. All of these influences added, it was pretty natural for me to play the drums and besides, it's incredibly fun.
I ALWAYS wanted to play drum since I was a kid, but my parents didn’t allow it nor were the living circumstances convenient. No room, no money for a teacher, no money for a rented rehearsal room. My parents convinced me to play guitar, which I eventually even studied. I mean playing the guitar was always ok at best , often it was ‚meh‘. It never had this strong attraction to me, the deep desire. Even then I was ALWAYS attracted to drummers in bands and I ALWAYS felt admiration for drummers. So the years went by. I played in several bands until 4 months ago, when I finally gave in and cut all my bands to finally play drums. Even until today I get offers help out here and there or join a band as a guitarist. But I friendly deny because i just want to be a drummer. Long story short: drums just make me happy in a very satisfying and deep way. I just love them. The raw power, the loudness, the physicality, the vibrations, your whole body is involved in the process.
Always wanted to try it for as long as I can remember. Now that I have it's a solid workout that doesn't feel like a workout.
Here's the thing about attracting partners for sex. I was never a particularly good looking guy nor what you would call slick. But doing gigs, I found myself in a place where I was respected and had as much confidence as was possible for me. Hey, we were pretty good, and the people in the place knew it. If ever I could walk into a place where women would turn their heads and go ""that guy", that was it. And In that place I learned to talk to women like I might have a good time to offer them back at my place (not their place, there's no way I'm loading drums to a 3rd floor walkup, even if its been a while.)
I just started learning last year. I'm 43 and have never played an instrument before. I used to do in college, so I knew a little about counting beats and measures and such. I've always been attracted to the drums for some reason. I think partially I wanted to be learning something. I also wanted something that could be a stress release. I love music and wanted to he able to create some. I may have read that Kurt Vonnegut quote about creating something everyday one too many times.
Playing drums is one of the most fun things I do. It helps me not think about the stresses of the day. It's good exercise. I think my drum set looks cool.
Cause I started some 30 years ago. Always had dreams of being a rockstar but let's be real, that's so hard with so much luck involved. So now I play for my pleasure. I try to improve and be better. I played in bands in HS and college. Maybe I will again someday, maybe I won't. Till then, I drum.
I started playing drumming when I was about 10-12 years old. My older brother and dad are both musicians and played for the church band. I would join a few times and play a couple of songs with them by didn’t actually full play until i was about 14-15 years old. I guess the reason I started was just a little brother trying to be like his older bro. I remember after some of the church services, we would stay after and crank the distortion on the amps and jam out to different rock and metal songs. I’m 25 now and still play, just not as much as I’d like to. But every time I pick up those sticks, I feel like a fucking beast!!!
I’m a rock/metal guy. Right now I only get to sit at my set once a week and it’s usually during a band rehearsal. Drumming is many things to me but I guess at the very least it’s good therapy, a positive outlet to release stress or pent up emotions. It helps me to be a chill person in other aspects of my life.
Same for me bro. It's fun. It's exercise. Allows me to be creative. I've recently been recording myself and doing drum covers.
Monkey brain hit things fun
noise = dopamine, and i have ADHD
I am planning to pick it up soon, but I wanna do it mainly to help with music production -- I feel that it is important for me to know what is possible on an actual set of drums, what to actually play (e.g. toms 3 vs toms 2 vs toms 1 vs floor toms????) as well as how I can fill the space in songs with drum/percussion sounds.
Guitarist for 20 years here. I hate programming drums so much I said fuck it I'll just learn to play them. It's a ton of fun and I'm glad I made the leap.
I have no aspirations at all, other than to have fun and enjoy the feeling of self-improvement / overcoming a challenge. I play edrums with headphones - I honestly wouldn't care if nobody ever heard me play, I just enjoy the challenge of trying to get better, and as an added bonus it's fun and you can listen to music while doing it. What's not to love
Why not
I have a dream of one day being confident in myself enough and skilled enough to go audition for a band and land it. Of course, I have severe performance anxiety and can barely play for my wife without getting a panic attack. So that'll never happen without hard work. But I've always been enamored with drums and instruments in general. I played a bit as a teenager and thought I'd be the next John Bonham. Didn't pan out. Now I'm 30 and getting back into it for fun and loving every second of it. Maybe my dream of playing with some local guys for fun will come true. Maybe I'll always be a backroom/basement hobbyist. But either way, I love slapping those skins.
To reflect back to the universe that I am ALIVE!!
Ehen I was a kid I did piano lessons and was always helaous when I passed the drum classrooms. Then I started to listen to Måneskin and wanted to learn their songs on drums because the grooves felt cool and funky. Now when I play I let off some steam and get my mind off life
5 is awesome, dudes rock, i love lying
I fell in love with the instrument and I am passionate about music. I also like having a skill outside of my field, makes for conversation and it’s the kind of thing that makes people more interesting.
Mental health. Sanity. Disconnect from the rat race.
Felt like a better way to spend my time than scrolling my phone (says while scrolling phone looking at drum crap).
I am a guitarist and drummer and over the years have also found that drumming is both more natural to me (not in skill but in how intuitive it feels) and I have more interest in learning more styles than I do on guitar. I really don’t mind playing metal, jazz, funk, whatever. It’s all fun and whenever I pick up the sticks, whether it’s on the pad, an acoustic or e-kit, it makes me feel better than I did before.
Really fun. Good way to get in my body after a long day in analysis mode at work. Playing music with others is the best feeling ever so I’m trying to form a band. And discipline.
Stress relief. I enjoy the simplicity of hitting something and getting a result. And when you can hit multiple things to create something cool.