...where did I say Stick Control was a bad book?
And no, sometimes it won't do. When I started playing guitar, i got a couple guitar books. When I started lessons, I realized the books had stressed wrong points and essentially taught me badly, so I had to unlearn all I had learned before returning.
It's essential to get a good or at least decent book when beginning so you don't regret it later.
edit: Caoboi, sorry didn't see your post. I'm editing it right now to say how to play it
2nd edit: Let's take this one...the counting is under:
hh:x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
s :--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-
b :x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---
1 2 3 4-1 2 3 4- 1 2 3 4-1 2 3 4
Count 1 2 3 4 evenly.
On each of those 4 beats, hit the high hat (hh) with your right drumstick.
On beat one and three, hit the bass drum.(b)
On beat two and four, hit the snare drum.(s)
hh has an "x" on every beat.
So pretty much, on every beat you're hitting the high hat. Then, you are alternating the bass and snare drums -- bass, snare, bass, snare, bass, snare, bass, snare.
It'll sound like this.
http://www.geocities.com/drummershaven/basicbeat.wav