I got myself a practice pad and a few sticks. I’ve messed around with it a bit now but I need to start actually focusing and practicing so I can do it right and eventually be decent. Where is a good place to even start my very first ‘lesson’? Any particular social media accounts I should check out or anything like that?
Been using Drumeo myself, and there are a lot of courses for beginners, and lots of them doesn’t require anything than a drumpad and a couple of sticks, Domino Santantonio is a great teacher for people starting out drumming, and John Wooton have some more advanved lessons using a drumpad, but as u/harrys_balzac said, there are also a lot of great free lessons on youtube, one of my favorite is a series made by Gordy Knudtson (Steve Miller band):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXgqiDB1SuuJuMsZBT7BScwyXCakr_eoG
I love the detailed explanation and the setup with all-black except his hands/for-arms, sticks and pad, it makes it easy to see what’s happening when he’s explaining the technique behind things like open/close and Moeller