Learning Materials
These are a few of the books I use for lessons. Any of them would make a great addition to a drummer's library.

"Difficult done immediately, impossible takes a little longer"

Included In Modern Drummer magazine's list of the 25 greatest drum books, Advanced Funk Studies will help take your groove to the next level. With author and renowned drummer Rick Latham as your guide, you'll learn hi-hat, funk and fill patterns. Many of the ideas in this book are derived from some of the most famous and profitient funk drummers. The accompanying CDs provide examples of the exercises.

 
Used worldwide, this revised and expanded book(now 240 pages) contains all the exercises nessesary for developing reading, rolling, technique, rock, jazz, and latin. Great for beginner and intermidiate students.

A repertoire of exciting rhythmic patterns to developed the drummer's skill in coordinating their hands and feet for today's rock styles.

George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is an original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993 Modren Drummer magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. This is the ideal book for improving "control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power and endurance. With extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. 

 
Voted second on Modern Drummer magazine's list of the 25 greatest drum books in 1993, Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer is one of the most versatile and practical works ever written for drums. Created exclusively to address syncopation, it has earned it's place as a standard tool for teaching beginning drummers syncopation and strengthening reading skills.