Reddit reviews The Drummer's Complete Vocabulary As Taught by Alan Dawson: Book & Online Audio

I'm a newish drummer- been taking lessons and working books for about 3 years now. I still only have an electronic drum kit, I don't gig or anything, but I do jam with some guys from time to time.

My practice routine is as follows- and I do this 3-4 times a week (note, this changes as I master certain lessons):

• Single stroke roll exercise, as spelled out in Drummer's Complete Vocabulary. About 20-30 minutes worth, at the fastest speed I can cleanly do (currently 84bpm, 16ths)
  
• Practice 2-3 rudiments- drags, flams, double stroke roll, whatever, for another 10-15 minutes. I use the same book as the single stroke, above.
  
• Drum Set Warmup excercise, half a page. Drum Set Warm-ups. Great book- I move around the set so much easier. This is a really tough book, keeping everything smooth, but it's paid off so much.
  
• Special weekly lesson. Currently this is practicing 3 different types of paradiddles between hi-hat and snare, opening the hi-hat on the first 16th note. This could also be a couple different beats or something like that. It's slow going right now.
  
  All in all, it lasts about an hour and a half, after which I'll play some, or get on a song, or do some pro-mode Rock Band 3.

You should check out The Complete Drummer's Vocabulary as taught by Alan Dawson. Within that is the Rudimental Ritual, which is basically a piece made up of all the rudiments grounded by a samba ostinato on the hi-hat and bass drum. It works coordination, hand speed, and of course rudiments, and when you get into the triplet variations, you get a good intro to playing polyrhythms. Spend a few weeks going back to these basics and it opens up a whole new world to playing. But do it slowly at first so you really work it into your chops.

Are you both talking about this? I'm just a beginner drummer so I'm taking notes based on recommendations here too.

Well, you've been playing about four years longer than I have, and I am mostly self-taught as well, lol.

That being said,

Free resources that I've used to develop rudiments in particular:

http://vicfirth.com/40-essential-rudiments/

http://www.snarescience.com/index.php

Resources that are highly praised (but I can't personally recommend them since I've never used them):

Stick Control

Jojo Mayer's "Secret Weapons" for hands

Jojo Mayer's "Secret Weapons" for feet

The books you should buy depend on what you want to learn, but this one looks pretty great as far as rudiments go (and rudiments go everywhere).

The Drummer's Complete Vocabulary As Taught by Alan Dawson: Go through as much as you can while staring both on right and left hand.

Also, Gary Chester's The New Breed: This is a lifetime lesson type of book. You'll get out of it what you put into it.