Glad you finally got around to joining our club, Crash!! Neil was completely right. I’ve often told my students that if they stood outside my practice room door while I was working on stuff, they’d never know I’ve played drums professionally for almost 3 decades. It sounds like I barely can sit up straight! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Keep those stick in your hands, buddy! It’s a marathon, not a sprint. (And I know exactly how you feel. Have been back in guitar lessons for the first time in 25 years over the last 6 weeks and “rank amateur” wouldn’t even begin to describe what it sounds like. 🙉)

I think the uncertainty comes from having NO idea how long it takes other people to pick things up. Bonham triplets sound easy and nobody on the Internet says how long it took them-understandably-or how long it could take an average knucklehead to dial em in. I don't mind admitting that it took me WAY longer to make RLK (and sometimes LRK) sound right than I thought it would. One of the first things I heard you say was how an engineer called out your playing. Very rare-and badass-for someone in your position to share. My current hurdle is one handed 16ths on the hats. Everyone with a channel makes it look and sound easy but-unlike Bonham trips-anyone can see it's not. As long as the "I can't believe that was me that just played that!"👍😲feeling outweighs the " I'm NEVER gonna get this!" feeling ill keep trying.

​@@ashleycrashdissinger8021 You're totally correct. No one can tell you how long it will take to learn any concept, really. Everyone is totally different in that some ideas just seem to come "naturally" or "easy" while others take much more time and effort. 30 years of working on linear groove ideas and I still don't feel like I play them all that well despite how much I know about them and how many I've worked on over the last 3 decades. But week after week, I still put in the time and they get a little better all the time. "Don't Stop! Keep Going!" is my ever constant mantra. You're welcome to borrow it for yourself, too!