Haha. I did a play through of the first Living End album and some Rise Against in the mix as well. I haven't played in a long while and slowly building back my punk speed.

I know I'll be there when I can keep up with Scott, playing all of Dude Ranch with no pause between tracks. It is VERY physically demanding.

I just put mine on the washing machine during the centrifugal cycle

Yeah, needs work. Was on an E kit and did some scoring patterns. Right hand 98/100. Left hand 92/100. Kick 79/100. Oof. But I still need to adjust the pedal; I know, I know, blaming equipment, but it's new and I can feel and see it reacting poorly to my usual positioning. Hopefully dial it in over the coming days.

Haha, I can imagine it would be true, but would certainly depend on the fitness, style/genre, and technique.

Here's the heartrate graph to match post. I consider my technique very good at being conservative, but there's clearly times there I was playing something fast and furious that jacked heartrate (mainly punk-style rockabilly).

Edit: Can legit see where I played fast, thought, "Okay, need something easier." and did lower BPM before being drawn back into fast shit again.

Haha I've grown up jazz trained and subsequently suck at double-kick and most metal in general. We have sheet music for our similar precision parts like metal, but mainly entire sections where you just ad lib on a minimalist setup, never sounding the same twice.

It's like, metal is Formula 1 and my code is World Rally Championship. Yeah, I can fling a car sideways through dirt, but introduce aero and grip, my brain never got exposed to that, so it struggles.

You can stop reading now, but I find this next part interesting if you're curious about drums...

I can use a double-kick better than your "average" drummer (being that the average drummer sucks at or doesn't know double kick at all), but no where near as fast and sustained over time as metal drummers. But, in jazz and Latin, I've learned heel-toe and slide techniques on a single to do brief bursts with one foot only. It's hard to explain, but effectively rocking and sliding the foot to catch the pedal bouncing up on each stroke to hit again. The result is it sounds like a double kick briefly bursting, but just one foot.

What's insanely impressive is metal drummers that apply this to both feet on the double kick mechanism. I imagine it takes a long time to get their bad foot up to scratch, but the result sounds impossible when you look at their leg movement.

An example (no slide though, as I don't think it's possible with double kicks) https://youtu.be/YnFU9IqCTIc?si=AZKXNRvcdXjKDbYg

Electric kit haha. I have two acoustics but haven't had them set up for three houses now to respect neighbours. Finally got an e-kit because I couldn't handle not drumming anymore.

I don't actually know. I stopped as blisters started forming, but could go a few hours longer. With proper technique, it's not very physically demanding despite how it appears.

10,000 was actually a fabrication. Benefits are greatest around 8700 steps.

Might be like Garmin where it automatically adjusts goal based on the historical data

It's just for office days because I do a lot of computer time. I dont pay attention otherwise and have a different watch I wear for my normal outdoor activities. It's three times thicker and has no space left for health-related sensors or a pedometer. But if this one approximates just 1km is 1,000 steps, I'm doubling down on not needing to care about steps outside of office days.

Are you unaware of the existence of electronic drum kits?

There's also just the fact that some people have rooms that are separated far enough from other residences for this to bother anyone. Most cities even have specific band practice spaces for rent, outside of residential areas.

Its weird to just assume that people have no consideration of others.