Angel's Punishment

Yes, get lessons. However, I would recommend spending a couple weeks just getting used to it -- experimenting with how much force it takes to create a good sound, etc. There are plenty of sites that give you easy drum beats. For example, the basic rock beat:

hh:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
s :--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-
b :x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---

You probably won't be able to hold this beat perfectly right away, but it won't take long as this is a very simple and well known drum beat.

then you can try slightly harder ones like this:

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 :xx--xx--xx--xx--xx--xx--xx--xx--

Slightly more difficult, but not too hard to master.

After you have those down perfectly, you should have a basic but solid foundation. After that, get lessons.

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