Playing Level: Single cell organism, I've been learning for about 8 months now.
Style: Anything the computerised lessons throw at me, blues, rock, hip hop, jazz, soul etc. Actually I found the styles of music I wouldn't normally listen to can be really good fun to play. Note; at my level, any musical "style" is barely recognisable as all the lessons are so basic.
Dive Bars?: Nope, but once a year in May, except this year due to the virus, about 500 bands descend on our city so I go in those places to see what they can do, (it's called The Great Escape festival). That's probably what influenced me most into trying the drums to start with.
Other Venues: As above.
Paid? Ha ha haaa. Someone might pay me to shut it!
Taught? 4x 1 hour face to face lessons, I want more but, you know, the virus. The rest of the time I use the computer lessons on "Melodics" which it reliably informs me, I've spent 220 hours of my life doing!
Now that I don't have to commute, I spend the hour before work (that I'd otherwise burn pointlessly going to work), on the drums. After work I then do the same. So that's something good for me that's come out of this pandemic. I don't have a plan with the drumming, I discovered that I like it so I keep doing it, much to the dismay of my wife and one of my daughters who has a bedroom right above where I practice. Mwahahahhaaaa....