Challenges and Rewards of learning Drums

The drums are physical, raw, emotional, fundamental and just about everyone can “connect” with them. A good drum groove moves just about anyone. The positives in learning/playing drums are that you don’t have to worry about pitches or harmony. The challenge here is creating a solid sense of independence. That is having one limb play a rhythm and executing separate rhythms over top of it with the other 2 or 3 limbs. All the while, having a perfect metronomic time and a good sense of “feel”. There are plenty of other challenges, but another to overcome is the relative mental boredom of training to be a human machine.