Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Where You'll Look into the Future, Go Back to Preschool, Get Stuck, and Learn How to Outsmart Your Parents -- Preschool for Lessons: The Best Way to Use This Book and DVD Package -- What You Will Learn by Using This Book and DVD Package -- What You Need to Get Started -- Rhythm, Rhythm, Rhythm -- Sticks -- Top Secret: For Your Eyes Only-How to Outsmart Your Parents -- Life without Drums -- Chapter 2 Where You'll Learn How to Get Set Up, Tuned Up, and Rugged Up, and How to Accessorize Properly -- The Drum Set: Where Rock Lives -- Things to Do before You Begin to Set Up Your Drums -- Getting Set Up -- Tuning Your Drums -- Tuning the Bass Drum and the Toms -- Tuning the Snare Drum -- Bass Drum -- Bass Drum Pedal -- Hardware -- The Floor Tom -- The Throne -- The Snare Drum -- The Hi-Hat: Stand and Cymbals -- Tom Toms -- Cymbals -- Accessories -- Chapter 3 In Which You'll Learn a New Language and Meet the "Big Three" -- Reading Drum Music: Stop Your Whining -- It's Just a Language -- More Reasons to Learn to Read Music -- To Play or Not to Play: Notes and Rests -- The Framework: Staff, Key, Measures, Beats, and Time Signature -- Quarter Notes versus Eighth Notes -- Groove #1 -- Groove #2 -- Groove #3 -- Review -- Chapter 4 In Which You'll Count to 16, Get Filled In on Fills, Crash without Getting Hurt, and Learn What Your Left Foot Is For -- Sixteenth Notes Equal Twice as Many Friends -- Fill 'Er Up -- Use Your Metronome When Learning Fills -- Fill #1 -- Fill #2 -- Fill #3 -- Fill #4 -- Fill #5 -- Fill #6 -- A Crash Course in Crashing on a Crash -- Your Left Foot: The Last to Join the Party -- Chapter 5 Where You'll Learn What to Leave Out and How to Slice and Dice, and You'll Meet Four Guys Named Steve -- Sixteenth-Note Variation #1 and Groove #4 -- Understanding "In Between" Notes -- Back to the Groove.

Déjà Vu -- Learning by Repetition. Learning by Repetition. Learning by Repetition -- Hey, Brain-You're Fired! -- Using the Timer: Ten Minutes to Change Your Life -- Sixteenth-Note Variation #2 and Groove #5 -- Alone at Last: Isolating the Trouble Spot -- Groove #6: A Funky Combination, a Groove Sensation That Will Cause Elation All across the Nation -- Using Sixteenth-Note Variation #2 in a Fill -- More Fills Using Sixteenth-Note Variation #2 -- Slicing and Dicing -- Sixteenth-Note Variation #3 -- Using Sixteenth-Note Variation #3 in Fills -- Sixteenth-Note Variation #4 -- Using Sixteenth-Note Variation #4 in Fills -- Review: Four Similar-Looking Friends All Named Steve -- More Slicing and Dicing -- Making Up Your Own Fills: It's All in Your Mind -- Adding Spice to Your Life and Crashes to Your Fills -- Chapter 6 The Triumphant Return of Your Left Foot -- A Slightly Different Groove -- The Declaration of Independence -- Groove #6 with Open and Closed Hi-Hat -- Sixteenth-Note Variations Using the Bass Drum: The Big Four -- The Big #1: Sixteenth-Note Variation #1 Using the Bass Drum -- The Big #2: Sixteenth-Note Variation #3 on the Bass Drum -- The Big #3: Using Four Sixteenth Notes to Create a Groove -- The Big #4: Sixteenth-Note Variation #4 on the Bass Drum -- The Extra-Special "Congratulations, You've Reached the Middle of the Book" Review That I Hope You're Happy About -- Chapter 7 In Which You'll Learn Why Over and Over, Become Sharp, Get Lectured, Enter a Brave New World, and Learn How to Smoke and Throw -- Practice Routines and Learning by Repetition, Learning by Repetition, Learning by Repetition: Does This Sound Familiar? -- Reviews: Keeping It Sharp -- How to Set Up a Practice Routine -- A Short Lecture -- Triplets: A Brave New World -- What Is a Triplet? -- Watch Your Sticking -- Eighth-Note Triplets: Not Quite This and Not Quite That.

Sixteenth-Note Triplets: Not Quite That and Not Quite the Other Thing -- Sixteenth-Note Triplets: The Happy Medium -- Speed Kills -- Slicing and Dicing with Sixteenth Notes and Sixteenth-Note Triplets -- Smoke and Throw -- Review -- Chapter 8 Where You'll Meet Your Two New Best Friends (the Quadruplet and the Flam), Join the Secret Brother and Sisterhood of the Flopping Fish, Slam Doors in Your House, and Say Inappropriate Things at the Dinner Table-All in the Name of Drumming -- The Quadruplet -- How to Play the Quadruplet: The Secret of the Flopping Fish -- The Quadruplet with the Focus on Your Hands: A Lane, a Circle, and a Flopping Fish -- The Quadruplet with the Focus on Your Right Foot -- The Quadruplet: Putting It All Together -- Why Play Just One Quadruplet When You Can Play Two? -- The Great and Mighty Flam -- A Flam Experiment: Go Slam a Door -- Follow the Leader to Flamsville -- Using the Flam as a Fill -- Review -- Chapter 9 Where You'll Meet the Flam Tap, Make Combinations and Reverse Them, Learn How to Change Your Voice, Cross Over to the Dark Side, Receive Permission to Bail, and Find Out What a Paradiddle Is -- More Fills Using the Flam Tap -- Flam Taps and Quadruplets: A Killer Combination -- Quadruplets and Flam Taps: Flip It -- Re-Voicing: A Word I Made Up -- Crossing Over to the Dark Side: A Dark Version of the Quadruplet -- Telpurdauq Esrever: Reverse Quadruplet -- The Reverse Quadruplet as a Fill -- Permission to Bail -- Forward and Reverse Quadruplets as Fills -- A Flam Tap and Reverse Quadruplet Fill -- Introduction to the Paradiddle -- Review -- Chapter 10 Where You'll Break the Magic Circle, Learn a Bunch of Combinations, Eat a Bunch of Deluxe Cheeseburgers, Learn to Look Where You're Going, and Eat Some Broccoli with Style -- Using the Paradiddle in a Fill: The Magic Circle Is Broken.

Sixteenth-Note Combination Combinations -- A Deluxe Cheeseburger: Three Combinations in One Groove -- More Deluxe Cheeseburgers -- More Slicing and Dicing and Some Words on Style -- Chapter 11 Where You'll Take a Vow, Use Accents, Play in 3D, See a Ghost, and Express Yourself -- Using Accents-And I Don't Mean Talking Funny -- Drumming in 3D: The Backbeat -- Drumming in 3D: The Rimshot -- Boo! Drumming in 3D: The Ghost Note -- Don't Push Me because I'm Close to the Edge. Drumming in 3D: The Hi-Hats -- Drumming In 3D: The Bass Drum -- Chapter 12 Where You'll Get a Quarter, Learn How Songs Work, Hitch a Ride, and Be a Volume Knob -- Hey…Got a Quarter? -- Quarter Notes to the Rescue -- The Ride Cymbal…Finally -- The Ride Cymbal-Not So Much How as When -- How Songs Work: The Short Version -- Hi-Hats versus Ride Cymbals: The Winner Is You -- Half-Open (or Half-Closed) Hi-Hats, Ride Cymbals, and Infinite Possibilities -- The Concept of Riding (and I Don't Mean in a Car) -- The Hi-Hats: The Volume Knob of the Drum Set -- Congratulations: You're Almost a Drummer -- Chapter 13 The Lucky Chapter: Where I'll Leave You with Some Last-Minute Advice -- Awareness of Arrangement -- Dynamics -- Location, Location, Location -- The Last Note -- 1...2...1, 2, 3, 4 -- Pickup Artist -- It's About Time -- Hawkeye: The Nickname You Want -- A Fond Farewell and a Last and Most Valuable Piece of Advice -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I-K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.