I use the following materials in my teaching:

Own exercises and notations.
Transcriptions of various drum solos.
John Ramsay, The Drummer's Complete Vocabulary - as taught by Alan Dawson.
National Association of Rudimental Drummers, 150 solos.
Buddy Rich, Modern Interpretation of Snare Drum Rudiments.
Morris Goldenberg, Modern School For Snare Drum.
George Lawrence Stone, Stick Control.
Charles Wilcoxon, Rudimental Swing Solos.
Charles Wilcoxon, The All American Drummer.
John Riley, Art of Bop Drumming.
John Riley, Beyond Bop Drumming.
Kim Plainfield, Advanced Concepts.
Dave Garibaldi, Future Sounds
Joe La Barbera, various exercises.
Jukkis Uotila, various exercises.
Erik Ineke, Basic Bebop for drums.
Gary Chester, The New Breed.
Steve Houghton, Ultimate Reading Anthology.
Ted Reed, Syncopation.
Jim Nesbitt, Inside Buddy Rich.
Jake Hannah, Syncopated Big Band Figures (and duets).
Ed Thigpen, The Sound of Brushes.

And of course a wide choice of music recordings.

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