Every sport, hunting, fishing, all have gadgets and the "must have" thing. Ironically when they finally do "invent" something useful then they keep mucking with it and screw it up. "Mr.Coffee" did that with their damn carafe that initially worked great but since everyone spills more than hits your cup-it's some sort of conspiracy with the coffee makers LOL. I spent years "boating and fishing" on the Gulf of Mexico but now it offends me as being too technology-gadget driven (I had a radio, compass and map, now who needs it with GPS) and elitist cause it's a dang expensive hobby. So I surf fish now find my own bait-digging up sand fleas, or a net for small bait fish and shrimp. I usually catch and release but will keep some pompano or redfish for a meal. I'm on the beach socializing with everyone-everyone loves to see what I catch and "What is it?", don't pollute with gas and boat, if fish aren't biting play bocce ball or corn hole (yeah it's a generational thing that name "cracks" me up), I love it. You know what you need to be good at golf-practice just like drums. I haven't played golf in years but I guarantee you I can go to a range and slam a driver 350 yards (I've done it repeatedly shutting up golf crazy doctor friends)-can't say where it will go-but it will fly. But golf is really a short game skill-irons and putting that long drive can get you in more trouble than benefit. My best friend and I played together all Summers I could out drive him by a mile-but I rarely beat him till I figured I need to spend more time putting and short irons. Practice, practice, practice you just need a club and ball-maybe a tee. Drumming just need a stick, something to whack, but an added benefit is some objective measure of time-so metronome or music. Cause whatever you call it-feel, inner clock, assessing time-it's something that can tricked and we have to work on it to be proficient so we are in time with music or metronome. I don't think we can subjectively discriminate how good our time is-without an objective measure to compare it to-a metronome or being in time with the music. It's a learned skill (we acquire as we develop, but can be taught earlier so is a learned skill) so knowing that why stop learning?