December 18th, 2009 
admin I just got a drum set and its a basic 5 pc kit. I wanna learn but I have very little experience playing them. I would just like to learn some basics and maybe some playing techinques.
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google Vic Firth and you should be able to find something for free. My son is a drummer and he did that.
As a beginner, I strongly recommend that you find a teacher. You can usually get private lessons through either putting an ad on a bulletin board at a college’s music department, or by asking at the best music store in your town.
The reason for lessons, for a raw beginner, is that playing any instrument is a complex task–you have to do lots of different things at once. A beginner usually does something wrong, maybe several things, and is so busy trying to keep track of tempo, rhythm, technique, tone, attack, etc., that those mistakes get missed–and get repeated until they become bad habits. Bad habits are hard to break, they slow you down when you should be getting good, and they might lead to bone and joint injuries–you don’t want to get nerve damage in your thumbs like some amateur drummers!
Just a few lessons–eight or twelve–ought to be enough for a teacher to correct your beginner’s mistakes. After that, you can use online sources, you can buy cheap drum books, cds, and videos from secondhand bookshops or ebay, or you can keep taking the lessons if you prefer.
One other tip: for a new musician, many short practices yield more progress than fewer, longer ones. Take five 10-minute sessions per day and you learn it faster than if you took one 1-hour session. Now, as you learn more, your practices will need to get longer (and fewer) until you have the stamina and knowledge to use a full hour or two productively.