I've been doing French on Duolingo for a few years and we have a paid package now so I can do as much as I want. I didn't learn too much of the language at school, but I am picking up a fair bit now. I treat it as a mental challenge and maybe I can get by in the language now, but I really need to speak it more to people. I also treat music as a mental exercise. I find drumming challenging when it comes to coordinating my limbs and figuring out the rhythms. It is very satisfying when it comes together.
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Yeah, for some people the goals are different, I can easily imagine using Duolingo every day just to keep a habit going. It is good as a mental exercise if you aren't doing enough of that. My brain is too hyperactive though, so I think the less work it has the better hahaha
As for drumming, I haven't used drum sticks before, but on djembe my friend taught me a cool trick that made drums make sense to me. He told me to just keep a very steady simple beat and then choose some beats to skip and experiment with which beats I skip and the tempo. It doesn't help with specific beats but it gave me a muuuuuuch better sense of rhythm and groove and I feel like I could probably figure out drums way quicker now. Living with a sound engineer who could play everything kinda changed my life! I should tell him
There's lots of aspects to drumming, but consistency is key, especially if playing with others. I used to play djembe and enjoyed that too.