Honestly, just play along with your iPod. If possible, I'd take a lesson or two just to get the basics down, but the best way to learn is to do. Just put your iPod on shuffle, and start to figure things out. Watch some videos on youtube and try to figure out how they do what they do. If you enjoy it and want to learn more about the actual technique, I'd definitely take lessons. Lessons with a good teacher are really underrated. If you don't have a drumset laying around the house, they sell practice kits (basically just rubber pads in the form a drum kit) for fairly cheap. They're really good to start helping with your coordination and whatnot. I believe the cheapest 'name-brand' full kit (including cymbals and hardware and whatnot) is somewhere around $700. Check online or preferably a Sam Ash or Guitar Center (if you have them in your area) for 'house kits'. They're significantly cheaper than name-brand kits (unless prices have gone up, they're around $300). The quality is not quite as high and the resale value is not as much, but to start off with, they're more than enough. Until then, get some sticks (I'd suggest 5A/wood tip, to start with) and a practice pad (the 'Remo' practice pad is known to be the most realistic) and start practice Rudiments. Rudiments are well-known exercises made to improve your technique on drums. If you can't read the actual notes on the page, pay attention to the sticking (R= right hand, L= left). Just playing through and repeating these exercises over and over will strongly help you learn. Sorry- I'm sure that was a bunch of sporadic, useless information, but I hope it helped in some way. The link to the rudiments is below. http://www.pas.org/resources/rudiments/rudiments.html