1. What you practice with your hands, practice with your feet. What you practice with your feet, practice with your hands. What you practice with your limbs, practice with your mouth.
2. Learn good hand technique. Fast players use multiple muscles to get speed and accents and endurance.
3. Reverse it. Play left handed leads. Set up your kit backwards sometimes.
4. Practice drills to a metronome at a good basic speed, like 110 bpm. Be sure and keep perfect form. Play them until you are going crazy with boredom. This is a good time to learn to meditate. Once, while riding the bus to work, I played quarter note triplets at 192 bpm for 20 minutes.
5. Especially when you are practicing something new and hard, but really all the time, when you have played a passage 10 or 20 times in a row correctly, stop for 10 seconds, and close your eyes, and pause to think about nothing, or maybe visualize playing that same passage. This neuro trick helps build memories faster.
6. Practice drills as fast as you can play them evenly, and play them until your muscles burn. For most people this will be less than a minute. Let the burn drain away. Repeat a few times. These are your calisthenics. They are boring, but they make everything else possible.
7. Practice along with records that amaze you, not records you know you can play with. It's okay to feel foolish in your own practice space. You need the challenge.
8. Your practice should raise up your skill so high that even on your bad days, you are good. Playing out live becomes more fun then.
9. You find a good teacher by trying them all out. A good teacher is anyone who knows more than you and who can teach you that knowledge. If you aren't getting anything out of the relationship, even if you were at first, respectfully take your leave, and find your next teacher.
10. Learn to play the basic beats in as many genres of music as you can. This broadening of knowledge will help you understand your preferred music, and also makes it possible to insert parodies into your music.
11. Laugh at your mistakes, but never forget them. Hunt them down later.

• One measure of a basic rock song has around 13 notes, and takes about 2 seconds to play. (8 hh beats, 2 snare, 3 kicks)
• A three minute song, therefore, will have at least 90 times that, say 1,170 individual strokes (probably more).
• An hour of practice, assuming you are actually playing at least 45 minutes of it, will therefore have about 15 times 1200 beats, or 18500.
• A year of one hour practices would be 365 times 18000, or 6,570,000 beats.
• Many drummers practice much more than one hour a day, especially if you add all the time spent tapping on tables, knees, and pillows. An individual's total might be 5 or 10 times that, and if you take someone who has been drumming for 10 or more years, it's easy to see that a good drummer might have logged half a billion strokes during only part of his or her career.