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If you're going to play drums, you need to learn the rudiments first. I'm not actually a drummer, so I don't know a lot, but I can give you a couple techniques to start with.
Start with the diddle. It is, simply put, two strokes with the same hand. You drill them by repeating the pattern on alternating hands, so it looks like this.
LL RR LL RR LL RR LL RR
And so on ad nauseum. Focus on precision more than speed; you want to keep a steady rhythm without speeding up or slowing down. A metronome would probably be a good investment, since it will keep you more or less in time. When you're doing them accurately you can speed things up, but make sure you keep that precision. This eventually leads to a double stroke roll.
Next there's the paradiddle. It goes like this:
LRLL RLRR LRLL RLRR
Each set of four strokes is one paradiddle and when drilling you always alternate hands. Again, precision is what matters. Do them slow and slowly speed things up.
I know this stuff is kind of boring, but it's a bit like doing scale drills on a guitar (which I can speak to, since I am a guitarist). You do the boring stuff first, so that you can get the proper techniques down in order to do the really cool stuff. Once upon a time Neil Peart did paradiddles too; it wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out that when he started out he did them all day long.
Unlike me Flyman is a drummer, so he might be able to give you a little more to go with when he gets here.
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