Reddit reviews Rockin' Bass Drum, Bk 1: A Repertoire of Exciting Rhythmic Patterns to Develop Coordination for Today's Rock Styles
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Contributors: John Lombardo and Charles PerryInstrument: Drum SetPage count: 40ISBN: 073901059XWritten in two volumes, these books include 2- and 4-bar rock and jazz-rock beats designed for the modern drummer
The book Rockin Bass Drum is great.
Also get a stereo and CDs, iPod or whatever and some big headphones can can cover your entire ear and play along to songs. This is useful even if you don't know the actual drum parts. You can just play along in time with the song, making your own part up until you learn the actual part. This helps so much with timing, limb-coordination and with listening to other instruments, cause most likely you'll want to write some of your own music and probably play in a band one day.
That being said, learn and pay attention to the drum parts of your favorite songs, albums, drummers and play them a lot. This will help build a repertoire of fills and beats to use and gets you thinking of how and why the drummer plays what he/she is playing. Don't just learn and then move on to the next album. As you play the same album or songs a few times, you'll realize stylistic tendencies of different drummers, like maybe how he had the hihat closed the first verse but played with it open during the second which really adds a driving feel to the song after the chorus, or how he switches up his right hand between the hihat, ride cymbal and floor tom to achieve different feels during different parts of the song, or how when the guitars drop out and its just drum and bass, he's playing a part on the toms...things like this. This can help to influence your own style. This leads to the next idea.
Listen to how the drummer is setting up the next part - a big heavy duty fill into a fast, loud part or a few sparse syncopated hits to set up a quiet bridge. If you eventually start playing in bands (or even if you don't) you will realize just how important transitions between parts are and how as a drummer you can greatly influence the overall feel of a song based on what you are playing and how you handle transitions.
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It has been a very long time since I have seen it, but I remember that the instructional book Rockin' Bass Drum was very good for working on this kind of thing.