I drummed for about five years. For Christmas I got an older chrome Ludwig Rocker II 7 piece drum set plus cymbals and hardware. It was a steal @ $800. I played the crap out of them, reskinned the toms, polished the chrome and cymbals by hand, and sold it for $1000 five years later. Not bad...heh.
I always recommend taking lessons. Drums were intuitive to me, guitar and keyboards/piano was not. My friend wanted to play drums, too, but he had like three left feet. I couldn't teach him, just not patient enough, plus he was a real basket case as far as coordination, timing, and rhythm. So we took lessons at the same place, I took guitar lessons while he took drum lessons. Pretty cool.
For some odd reason, when playing the drums, I have independent 'sides'. Its intuitive, I never had to practice or develop it, it was just there from the start. I can't explain why.
But when trying to play piano, my left hand wants to do what my right hand is doing. When I concentrate on getting my left hand to do what its supposed to do, I lose 'track' of my right hand. When I switch my attention to my right hand, my left hand doesn't know what to do. Weird.
One would think that it wouldn't be such a problem since when drumming its not an issue. I can do complex rhythms just fine requiring my left and right hands and feet to all be doing different things.
Brains are weird that way.
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