Hours?

Well you are younger than me then...
I didnt know you were a drummer! It is true proper technique will not require huge sweating sessions, and for me the issue is my back around my shoulder blades. I also am not sure about sticks these days, I have some of these
https://www.zzounds.com/item--MUPMNDST?siid=111917Not sure where I got them, either Amazon or my local music store. They are very light and I want more but not a dozen more. Anyway, getting the right feel and size of stick is of course important, the maple are much lighter than these other ones I have
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... iMQAvD_BwE
and these are heavier...the 2b vs 5a, i havent bothered to try and figure out what is what there as to these numbers, it has been so many years that I dont remember how that system works. I go by feel and so far I do like these maple sticks.
I've forgotten what those numbers and letters mean too. I used to know, I used to be able to stand next to the stick rack at the store and rattle off the details about it to mothers and a sixth grade school kids, who were there to buy the beginning band book and a pair of sticks.
The number is probably the weight of the stick. I don't know what the letter relates to physically. I remember telling mothers and kids that an A stick was made for
tap tap tap, D sticks were for
thud thud thud. The other letters were between.
I remember being in sixth grade showing up for the first day of band with my trumpet and that same beginning band book. One of the things I remember from that day which matches what I do remember from the music store is that when kids are deciding what to play way too many of them want to be drummers.
At the sixth grade level the director didn't try to weed those excess drummers out. I remember that awful end of year concert my sixth grade class made our parents attend.
I went to a small rural school and my grade school band met in a shed behind the school. Our sixth grade class band had four drummers, I played trumpet, Terry had a sax. Two girls played clarinet.
The girls were grossed out about the spit valves on my trumpet. I decided to be grossed out about girls sucking on their reeds.
I decided that Terry's reeds were different and therefore OK, they were bigger reeds for one thing, and they weren't being spit on by girls.