Part 1 · Getting Started · Chapter 6
Drum music is written on a five-line staff, like other music, but the lines and spaces stand for instruments instead of pitches. The double bar at the start is the percussion clef.
Cymbals are usually written with an x for a note head. Drums use round note heads. Notes for your hands have stems pointing up; notes for your feet have stems pointing down.
Each instrument in the key, from the top of the staff to the bottom.
Notes stacked on one stem happen at the same time. Read the stack from bottom to top: feet first, then hands.