The first thing you must do is get yourself a decent drum set. The drum set usually starts out as a snare, bass, 3 toms and a crash symbol and a hi-hat. You must adjust the drums so you feel comfortable.
One of the first things you got to do is learn to read tab. Tab is like notes that you follow but its not notes.
It looks something like this:
Bass/--------------------------------------------------
Hi/------------------------------------------------/
Snare/-------------------------------------------------/
Each line resembles the drum or symbol it names. Each - is a quarter note witch means one beat.
So when you see this:
Bass/------------------/ hi/hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh/
Snare/-----------------/
It means hit the hi-hat every other beat. Practice the hi-hat before we move on.
Next you'll see things like:
Bass/--------------------/ Hi/hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh/
snare/-s--s-s--s-s--s-s-s/
It means while hitting the hi-hat on every other beat; you will be playing the snare starting on the second beat but you won't have an easy pattern. This how you do it hit the snare on the second beat , then hit it again after to beats, after one beat it's a pattern of 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2. Practice this for a while.
Then things get even tougher as so:
Bass/b-bb-b-bb-b-bb-b-bb-/ Hi/hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh/
snare/-s--s-s--s-s--s-s--/
