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I'm a self taught drummer also, but I think the main thing to remember is you never want to stop learning new stuff. Start with the basics and move up from there. Like others said YouTube has great tuts. Every new drummer wants to play fast, but speed is nothing without control. Your job is to keep time, that's the main thing to remember, I sometimes forget that! This is probably one of the best books to help you: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1892764040/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hi,

I´ll recommend to keep your "main focus" on comping, fills will come out easily & naturally, even those tasty ones, when you have good control over technique .

But to your question. I highly recommend -Future Sounds-
by David Garibaldi. (Tower of Power drummer)

Check these out

https://youtu.be/pGWBqGa44ZU?t=4m5s

https://youtu.be/TsiYKOTmv1I

And here´s the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Future-Sounds-Contemporary-Drumset-Concepts/dp/0739019120

https://www.scribd.com/doc/258774093/PDF-Drum-Book-Drum-Lesson-David-Garibaldi-Future-Sounds



for example those permutation studies most likely challenges even more advanced drummers.


Good Luck!

Firstly, get used to playing swing with the right hand while keeping 2's and 4's steady with your left foot. Once you've got that down, grab a book like Syncopation and practice playing the rhythms on the snare while keeping your right hand and left foot as solid as a rock doing the same thing as before.

I used an Erskine book that does exactly this, but also goes into hand-foot combos, taking it to the next level. It also goes into triplets and such, but that's for when you're good with the basic patterns.

This sets you up for being able to comp using any rhythms you want but keeping your left foot steady on the up beats, essentially the core of jazz drumming.

This is a really condensed explanation, but I hope it helps.

Good Resources to Use

• Drum Concepts and Techniques
  
  
• Syncopation
  
  
• Art of Bop Drumming

I guess a great place to start would be the Vic Firth website. For each of the 40 basic rudiment it has a bronze, silver, and gold challenge. Treat it like a game, where you're trying to get that third star for each level.

I like to stick some tunes on and play (for example) 16 bars of paradiddles, then doubles, then singles in time with the music.. It's important you be able to seamlessly move between rudiments while keeping tempo and dynamic constant.

My book of the moment is Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer by Ted Reed. For £1.50 it's a steal, and really can help you get started.

Have you tried getting into Moeller method for your doubles and triples? Also, getting creative with stick control patterns on the drum set makes for better grooves

Edit: As for books, I think you'd get a kick out of Keith Copeland's Creative Coordination for the Performing Drummer. The book covers Jazz, Latin, Fusion and Rock in a way that deconstructs the harder grooves and makes it easy to put them together. Whenever I'm jamming with people who play rock I tend to sneak in some of the Samba from this book and it makes for a more interesting session.

Link:
https://www.amazon.com/ATJ304-Creative-Coordination-Performing-Drummer/dp/0825803861

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.

This book is great for better stick control http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1892764040/ref=redir_mdp_mobile
You can learn from books if you the type of person that likes to

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.

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

Since you can already read music, you have a huge advantage - books. I would try this one out, it will help with your snare/bass issues: https://www.amazon.com/Drummers-Cookbook-John-Pickering/dp/0786692855/

The Drummer's Cookbook. I use it with all my students.

Get lessons if at all possible. You'll progress much more efficiently that way.

Also get Stick Control and practice the patterns to a metronome.

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.

Stick Control and Syncopation for the Modern Drummer

Two of the greatest.

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

The Art of Bop Drumming is a great place to start http://www.amazon.com/Art-Bop-Drumming-Manhattan-Publications/dp/089898890X

a piece of advice that was given to me was to take bars from drum workbooks such as this and incorporate it into your playing while being utilized as a fill.

these books are reading exercises so the notes given are more for time value than anything else.

Two ideas for you:

1. A good book with CD of music from the notation - eg. The Evolution of Jazz Drumming
   
   
2. Drum Kit (grades) - eg. Trinity Rock & Pop 2018 Drums Grade 4

One of my first drum books was One Surface Learning It starts with the rudiments and then applies them to rhythms. You play it all on the snare and bass until it's grooving and then move your hands to different surfaces to see what you get. You'll build foundations in different styles and then make them your own with variance.

For this stuff I would start with stick control ( http://www.amazon.com/Stick-Control-George-Lawrence-Stone/dp/1892764040) but apply techniques as seen in Jojo Mayer's Secret Weapons for the Modern Drummer. He has the definitive insight into how a stick can be held and controlled. Coupled with Stone's book there are infinite ways to build your technique and maximize speed and comfort without injury.

I would suggest buying the Jojo DVD and the Stone book, but there are bits and pieces of both all over the google / YouTubes.

This book has a transcription of La Villa Strangiato.

So far everyone has replied with an incorrect answer.

The correct answer is

STICK CONTROLLLLLLLLLLL

The KVX is outside my budget :( .


Ok , so I have this kit in my cart . My next question is can get them for less than $1200?