"Do not let anyone ever shut you up, you're neither less nor more than anyone, you're just a person trying to carve out your own path." Go ahead and trust yourself as you will most likely have to walk that way you alone "
You can not start thinking about a roll if you do not know what your hand is in the drum and where you can take it. You can not think of a bounce if you do not know and have technically exploited everything that can happen first in the middle of the drum.
You have to have common conscience and logic of what is the spirituality of the Drum not to become a percussionist of drum rolls because that means that your existence as a percussionist will soon disappear.
When you mix "folk depth" with a high content of technical development, you automatically have a deadly weapon in your hands; Now joining these two worlds seems easy but it is not.
It is important to sit down and analyze which of the two paths to start in order to create a solid base that allows you to absorb any type of information and at the same time interact with what is happening.
Everything new most of the time is accompanied by stress and tension and not because it is something bad, but because it is something that is not known and as a consequence what the mind does is stress because it has to leave its own state of comfort to be able to understand and at the same time acclimate to learn something new; The same goes for the technical development of the drum and any other instrument.
Where you are able to carry your own intellect and technical and spiritual capacity; for likewise you will achieve your goals. Things take the time they have to be taken but they are done well or they are not done.