this is paper writen on how to practice.
HOW TO PRACTICE
The importants of practicing the right way separates the truly kicking drummers from those who just plain suck. If you practice the right way for an hour, you will be better than someone who practices the wrong way for five.Here are the golden results for practcing drums.

Drumming is divided into three parts- Physical, mental and rhythmic. You can't only practice one of these areas and expect to be awesome. For the physical side of drumming, you need to practice on a regualr basis, working on rudiments and exercises. For t he mental side, you need to work on sight reading and expand your knowledge of the differents kinda of time signatures and complex rhythms (i.e. syncopated quintuplets). And for the rythmic side, you need to work with a metronome constantly. Without it you will slow down and speed up without even knowing it, then when you get with a group you'll do the same thing, causeing you to sound like crap.

A.Physical
1. ALWAYS spend a good amount of time warming up before you play ANYTHING. Start playing warm-ups slowly so that you muscles wont be sore later, or worse, develop carpal tunnel syndrome. A good basic routine includes 8 on a hand, single strokes, double-triple beat, bucks (accent taps), paradiddle exercises, flam exercises and rolls. Start all of these pritty slow and gradually speed them up (with metronome). Only go where you are comfertable, then later on in the practice session, you can really focus on one of these areas if you wish, but I can't stres how much it will hurt you to just pull out some sticks and practice one thing hardcore without warming up. You WILL hurt yourself.
2. Before practicing anything for a prolonged period of time, make sure that you have the right technique so you know what bad habits to look out for. (see technique)
3. Rudiments. Know them, memorize them, get theose suckers in your muscle memory. Practice them on a regualr basis. Almost all songs you will learn will have them. They make you SO much better as a player it's not funny. Need chops? Practice your rudiments. Having coordination problems when you trying to learn something? Practice you rudiments (to a metronome of course). You need to know them for virtually every audition anyways.
4. USE YOUR FINGERS. I know its easy to play 8 on a hand with just you wrist, or those accent tap exercises and thats ok but you will never be able to go really fast if you dont use your fingers. It may seem uncomfetable at first but after you get used to it, you become lightening fast. If you are new to this idea do it slow. making sure that you use all of those back fingers.
5. DO NOT swtich between concert and marching sticks on a regualr basis. If you're going to practice for a few hours a day, dont alternate sticks. You will never get good at either one if you dont focus on one type if stick. You concert chops are going to suck during marching season and vice versa. You just need to get used ti it as a drummer.
6. Practice pads are a truly great invention, BUT they are not exactly like the real thing. You can practice on them for a long period of time and be fine, but before a preformance you need to start practicing on the real thing.
7. If you can't hear you can't play.Buy ear plugs.
8.If you can't play it slow then you can't play it fast. Build everything you learn, slow then fast. If your playing with a group if you can play it slow its not going to sound clean fast. Dont waste time continually playing it fast if its muddy slow.
9.practing for an hour isnt really going to help you get better, it will just keep you at the same level you are now. Fewer hours will make you worse over time. 2-5 hours of practice a day are ideal for being an awesome drummer.

B. Mental
1. You can have killer chops, but you need to be able to sight-read music. Any one can learn a peice over time, but the really awesome drummers dont have to spend an hour learning "1 & a" because they can just read the music.

2. Buy as many books as you can to sight read from. For beginners buy Phil Perkins' "logical Appraoch to Snare Drum , Voulume 2", "logical Appraoch to Rudimental Snare Drum" and "Alfred's Drum Method book 1". They are the best books to start with. When you get more advanced, tey "recital solos for snare drum" by Garwood Whaley and "portraits in rythem" by Anthony Cirone.
3. Sight read with and without and metronome. Either way., when you screw up dont stop, keep going anyway and when your done go back and see what you did wrong. Don't just move on to the next peice, fix the problem so it wont happen again.
4. Ask questions to people who know more than you do. Email, call, fax, whatever. if you have a question that you books dont answer, ask someone else.
5. Sight reading is like reading a book, the more you do it the better you will get.
6. You can never reach a point where you know everything, so keep learning.
7. Write your own music. Compose! Anything that comes to your head, write it down. If you don't know how then ask someone who does. when you are learning how to write down your own beats, learning other beats becomes cake.
C. Rhythmic ability
1. All i can say here is again PRACITCE WITH A METRONOME. Very important. Use it for everything from rudiments to sight reading. Even just staright triplets or sixteenths. Everythime you use one, you increase your ability. That way you won't speed up or slow down when playing with a group.
I hope this is useful.