(Part 2) Best products from r/Drumming

The Yamaha EAD-10 picks up the whole kit, sounds decent, and connects directly to an iPhone, automatically replacing the audio in your phone's video. It has a bunch of effects as well if you're into that sort of thing. A flexible tripod is a good place to start for holding your phone, as they wrap around drum hardware quite nicely. Good luck!

Ear plugs, for me, were always terrible. I tried cheap disposable ones and more expensive reusable ones, percussion specific ones and was never very happy with them.

What finally worked great for me were in-ear-monitors. With the added bonus that you could pump in a track or a click or monitor and have hearing protection while also hearing everything perfectly at a comfortable level. My first were Shure SE215, for about $100 they do a great job of both isolation and playback.

If he doesn't really gel with the $15 ear plugs maybe think of splurging for in-ear monitor for his birthday or something.

Couldn't agree more. Gaining independance with the left foot on the hats is an excellent first step in double kick drumming. Think about it like you were working on your hands. You don't just hammer out single stroke rolls, you play paradiddles, doubles, flams. Your left foot is a limb that can be as workable and useful as your hands.

As boredop mentioned, dropping the hats on the 2 and 4 gives a really cool groove to a steady ride beat, and in a lot of folk it's almost expected. Same applies to jazz. But that's really just the tip of the iceberg with regards to what you can do with your left peg. [See: The New Breed] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chester-Breed-Revised-Edition-Drums/dp/1423418123/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1371779559&sr=8-2&keywords=the+new+breed+drummer)

Furthermore, every drummer worth his salt has at least one ostinato based rhythm in their repertoire (edit: repertoire). Look at Steve Gadd's Samba, and go from there. The work you do in separating the feet from the hands is something Mario Duplantier, Danny Carey and many other heavy drummers have mastered.

Maybe try this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Graded-Music-Snare-Drum-Book/dp/1854724444

Seems like it might be what you're looking for. There are several levels, and it's fairly cheap through Amazon.

I'd need more context on you and your situation before I could hope to give a better recommendation.

Hope this helps!

Start slowly, and repetitiously.

​

I learned by getting a teacher who recommended a book called A Funky Primer. Start with the most basic exercises as slow as it takes for you to play them right. Once you master that slowly speed it up. Learn new exercises as you master older ones, rinse & repeat (so to speak). It takes patience. Lots and lots of patience. Best of luck to you, slow & steady wins the race here.

Practice hitting these at the same time to build up muscle memory until it registers to you as a single motion:

• bass & hi-hat
  
• snare & hi-hat
  
• bass & crash
  
  ​
  
  For hands (right/left multitasking) learn flam drills.
  
  ​
  
  That should get you started.

This book is excellent, I really notice improvements even after 2-3 thirty minute sessions. Get it and you will have your weak hand up to strength and control in no time. It's very boring, but if you have a practice pad or kit in your room just put on a movie and have a click in your ear which makes it more bearable. Before I got my practice kit I used to sit at my electronic kit just staring at the book which is very tiring.

The book has 30 exercises per page, which are meant to be played for one minute each non-stop. Play each page for 7 days before moving on. There are 52 pages, which gives one years worth of material. You can also do the same exercises in your feet.

oh...you want fills then? this is an excellent drumset compliment to stick control (which will also help with your fills) http://www.amazon.com/Mel-Killer-Fillers-James-Morton/dp/0786627662

http://www.amazon.com/Mel-Bay-Studio-Jazz-Cookbook/dp/0871666820

I'd recommend this book as well to the other suggestions. This goes through the jazz basics in a very easy to digest form. Starts with 8th note comping on snare, then bass drum, then hit hat and lastly all together. Then it moves to triplet comping. It's very fluid in its presentation. Highly recommended.

You can get a $10 cowbell but you'll hate yourself every time he uses it. Do yourself a favor and don't buy a ear-piercing percussion. Maybe go for something cheaper like wood blocks. Not versatile as a cowbell maybe, but still cool.

Also I'd like to add they can be mounted on the bass drum

Watch these two videos ASAP!!!:

Brain's Lesson's

Brain Has Made the Worst Instructional DVD Ever

Incredible insight and also very entertaining! And then just make sure you are enjoying yourself when you are playing!

thanks for the interesting solution but i went along the same lines as u/alanennis 's suggestion and got this exercise mat. it slides around easily when nothing's on it but won't budge an inch if there's the slightest bit of weight. made of eva foam and supposed to be sound absorbent but i've yet to test this out.

I'll second this. This should be at the top of your list of books to get.
You can spend the rest of your life mastering the first few pages only. You will see dramatic improvement if you open a practice session with 20 minutes or more of this every day.
Also don't limit the exercises to just your hands. Turn them into linear exchanges between feet and hands.

I also recommend the book Advanced Funk Studies.

This one is great as well - http://www.amazon.com/Afro-Cuban-Coordination-Drumset-Essential-Workbook/dp/0793597498/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452782028&sr=1-1

For straight ear protection, I recently bought these and they're great: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CPCHBCQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

These are so much better than the earmuffs off the shelf from the local hardware store. Lots of room inside for earbuds.

I recommend this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0002F4VNU/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1501426734&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=ridge+rider+cowbell&dpPl=1&dpID=310%2BS7gu79L&ref=plSrch

I also like this mounting adapter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0002E1VYI/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501426886&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=pearl+cowbell+mount&dpPl=1&dpID=41IGzfb05DL&ref=plSrch

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.

This is considered one of the best books to learn double bass drumming with.