Reddit mentions of Elementary Drum Method

ahh! I'm sorry. Here are the two books and some general tips.

• Elementary Drum Method-Roy Burns This book will teach you basic theory, how to read rhythm, and some good basic snare practice. I use it whenever I am teaching rhythm to music students either new percussionists, or brass/woodwind/ etc players that don't know rhythm well.
  
  
• Ultimate Realistic Rock-Carmen Appice This book will teach you how to play drum set. If you work your way through this book you can become a pretty decent drum player. Very well organized and thought through.
  
  
• Check out [Vic Firth's 40 Essential Drum Rudiments] (http://www.vicfirth.com/education/rudiments.php). Learn them. These are super helpful and the site is great.
  
  
• Play along with other tracks. What I did was grab some cheap earbud headphones, then I bought some nice Vic Firth isolation head phones (good for you to wear while practicing anyway). I'd listen to a song a few times, work out the basic rhythm, then keep the earphones in playing the song, the isolation head phones over them, and play along to the track. If you have huge speakers you can also just black a track and play along with it. Some sites have drum track tabs you can look up, sometimes you can figure out the beat by ear, or you can buy books. I own RHCP Stadium Arcadium for drums. Some good tracks to start out with if you're new are Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes, Come As you Are by Nirvanna, and almost any Beatles track. Play you're way through albums. I can give you more suggestions if you'd like. Even if you aren't matching the drummer perfectly, you'll get better by playing with tracks.
  
  
• Buy a metronome. Seriously. You can get a cheap one from Guitar Center or online, it doesn't need to be fancy, it just needs to keep a beat as you begin to learn percussion. Drummers who don't practice with metronomes aren't going to be very talented.
  
  
• Start slow. If you can play a beat slow, you can play it fast. But there are some people who can play rhythms fast, but not slow. Better to do it slow and correct, than fast and incorrect.
  
  
• If you can't play a rhythm 3 times in a row looping it (as in without stopping or breaking), you can't play it. You need repetition and looping.
  
  
• learn to hold stick properly and play with your wrists, not your whole arm.
  
  I can offer more tips about playing set, snare, mallet instruments, hand drums, buying a set, reading music etc. Send me a PM.
  
  Sorry this took so long, I had my drum books stashed away (recently moved) and I needed to remember the names.
  
  edit: formatting