It is frankly a miracle that I only wasted an hour setting them up instead of doing my job, then obviously I had to test them a little, but that was only maybe twenty minutes, tops. Once I finished work I spent an hour getting things really squared away and feeling right, and it is wild the way in which I actually kinda remember how to do this whole drumming thing!
Getting my feet to do the right stuff is a challenge, and honestly I am not sure I like the pedals that much (maybe I will go looking for nicer feeling ones at some point), but I spent an hour drumming and it felt pretty fucking great! Drumming is fun! I should have never stopped doing it but that's okay I am doing it now! Gonna eat some food and maybe drum some more!
DRUMMING FUN. HIT THINGS WITH STICKS AND MAKE FUN NOISES. AWOOGAH.
I am trying, currently, to learn this song, and I can feel myself approaching something like competence. I have the basic stuff down (more or less - my foot sometimes decides to twitch a bit on its own and fucks up the bass drum kicks, which is taking some time to get control over) but the fills kinda kill me, in that I am overthinking them. Still, it is fantastic to make Actual Progress, or something that I have hallucinated as actual progress.
Plus it is not a terrible workout now and again (my fitbit has decided it counts as running, as my little screenshot up there shows) - I mean, it isn't gonna replace my usual exercise routine but there is a pleasant exhaustion that comes with it.
Definitely should've gotten a cushier stool though, my ass is fat but it still hurts sitting on that damn thing for long stretches of time. Lord but I do love it though, even if it does fill me with the urge to seek out people and play with people, which goes against most of my instincts and also oh no fuckin' way am I bringing my weak-ass drumming skills in front of anyone. That's for 2026, assuming we aren't all dead.