BASIC SOUNDS ("How do you make that sound!?")

1) The Three Basic Elements:
    a) hi-hat: “t-t-t”
    b) kick: “bm,” “dm” “m”
    c) snare: “pf,” “khuh”

2) The Two Major Additions:
    a) crash cymbal: “psh”
    b) toms: “dn”

3) Some additional Sounds:
    a) ride cymbal: “shh”
    b) rim shot: “kh”
    c) blocks: “knok”
    d) shakers: “shh”

4) Simultaneous drums:
    a) kick and high hat
    b) kick and snare
    c) kick and crash

PATTERNS ("I thought there was a drum track!")

1) Building from a simple pattern: Rock ballad in 4/4
    a) kick and snare
    b) add high hat
    c) add open hat
    d) add crash

FEEL and musicality  ("I don't know why -- I just like it.")

Feel and placement
Tempo versus machismo
Less as more
Improvisation: the best teacher