Is Drumming Good for You?

Drumming can have positive effects on your health and may help with many conditions from stress, fatigue, and anxiety, to hypertension, asthma, chronic pain, arthritis, mental illness, addiction, and even cancer. Here's why drumming is good for you: Makes you happy.

What can drumming do for you?

A Therapeutic Tool

Recent research indicate that drumming accelerates physical healing, boosts the immune system and assists in releasing emotional trauma. Drumming has a positive effect on anxiety, grief, fatigue, depression and behavioral issues.

Is drumming a good workout?

"It's all about building massive amounts of endurance and strength. It's almost more like a Pilates and yoga thing, which tones the muscle and really strengthens it for endurance." Even though drummers are sitting, they still are using their legs. "The lower body is crucial," Metz says.

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

Gaming, Esports & Interactive Media Writer

Alexander Ross has covered the video game industry for a decade, writing deep dives on game design, esports tournaments, VR developments, and gaming culture.