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Get him Rock Band. it'll give him exposure to lots of different drummers and lots of styles of playing and he can ratchet the difficulty level down to his skill level until he improves. my eldest (almost 16) plays drums. he's just doing band at school (marching, etc) for instruction. all of his kit playing is self-taught.

he started out playing along with things like Green Day. I've pushed various prog stuff at him. some he likes and he plays with all the time. some he doesn't. he's found new bands through Rock Band/Guitar Hero that he's picked up songs from that he plays along with on his kit. however, I've found it somewhat unpredictable what he'll attach himself to. I just try to keep him exposed to stuff I think he should hear, and let him pick what he likes.

The other day, we were in the car and I was listening to Bauhaus, and he turned it off and put on Le Orme. LOL. it was pretty hard to argue with his choice. ;-)

if you like, I can ask him for a list of his favorite stuff to play along with.

oh, and BTW, Dragonforce sucks. lol. the "final" song in...I think it was Guitar Hero III, was by Dragonforce. my kids used to play that all the time. OMG, I hated that. I was so happy when we moved to Rock Band 2 and the song they always played was Panic Attack. ;-)