Recorded myself the other day… woof

I started playing drums during Covid as a fun hobby. I played off an on for a couple years and then really started practicing seriously about 6 months ago. I was feeling like I’d come a long way in that time. I can play some pretty difficult songs imo, or I guess I should say I know the sticking patterns for some difficult songs, but I can barely play them.

This was all until Monday when I finally recorded myself for the first time. I never had any interest in recording or playing for others or anything like that. But the other day I was playing and decided to press record on EZDrummer just for fun and was absolutely gutted by what I heard. My timing was terrible. Some of the groove sections were solid but in general it was so so much worse than I was expecting.

The good news is that just in the past couple days I’ve made some serious progress with my timing and tempo, but I almost feel like I’m starting back from square one.

Not sure if this post is meant to ask for advice in any way or just to vent, but I had to share.