Steven Slate Drums, layout notes.

c2 kick
c sharp 2 is muted rim shot  Soft alternative to closed hat e.g. In a ballad.  Stick is laid on skin, possibly bit of palm also.  Then it is raised at edge and body of stick hit against the raised edge.
d sharp 2 is a rim shot Tip of stick hits side of snare drum.  Get a bit of sound from the skin as well unlike muted rim shot.  Is also brighter, high end and can also be used as alternative to hat.
d2 and e2 are snares.  Have two of them to make it easier to do rolls and to accent strikes.
f2 is the floor tom.  Biggest and lowest.  Usually off to the right.
G2 is the lowest of the rack toms.  Angled at about 45 degrees and off to the right slightly.
A2 and b2 are the mid rack tom.  Have two as common to do flams or multiple hits.
c3 is the high tom which will be off to the left slightly above the snare.
f sharp 2 is a closed hat
a sharp 2 is an open hat although close enough to touch so both ring when you strike the top cymbal;.
g sharp 2 is a chick sound and is the sound of closing the open hat so the two cymbals clamp together.

Cymbals.
d3 is the smallest cymbl. splash cymbal.
c sharp 3 is the choke and is the sound of someone damping it with their hand.  Used in conjunction with d3.  
e flat and e are ride cymbals.  have two of them so can do more complex sticking patterns.
f3 is ride cymbal hit on the bell which is the raised centre.  More tingy sound. helps accent off beats and helps with sonic movement.
g3 is a crash cymbal and f sharp 2 is its choke.
a 3 and a flat 3 are same again but a slightly thicker crash cymbal.
B3 and b flat 3 are larger crash cymbal over to the right.

Variations on hats.
c4 and c sharp 4 are hats with foot very very slightly off the pedal so a little bit more ring but sluggish attack.
d4 is partially open hi hat.  Use when transitioning from a closed to an open.  Or can be used in its own right.  This recording probably done by hitting side of hats with body of stick.
e flat 4, e4 and f4 are further graduations of opening the high hat.  probably all done by hitting the side as is less dinggy than the a2 sharp.
f sharp 4, g4 and g sharp 4 are just variations of mostly closed hat.
a4, a sharp 4 and b4 are just variations of more open hats.
c5 is another chick  which chokes the preceding open hats.
c sharp 5 is a chick bounce where you first stamp down on the hats and then release to let them ring out.  The decay is different to other hits.  Common in jazz and swing.

Back down to kicks:
B1 and C2 are both kicks.  Some kits have double kick pedals so you can do faster kick work.  Heavy metal often has kick semiquavers.
a1 and a sharp 1 are a rim shot snare.  Hit near the edge of the skin.  Gives a different sound to a centrally hit snare.  Can combine with the d sharp 2 to simulate hitting both the skin and the inside edge of the drum.
Also good to combine a rim shot and a full bodied snare doing a flam.  Like a grace note.  first rim shot followed very soon after on the beat by the full snare.
On g1 and g sharp 1 have a china cymbal and its choke.
d1 is an open high hat on b flat 2 just for convenience.
B flat 0 is hi hat closed again just for convenience.
A0 is a buzz roll.  Doesn't seem to be velocity sensitive in that it is the same sample regardless of velocity.  So may have to do these manually.
A buzz roll is when you loosely hold the stick and let it bounce off the skin to then restrike the skin.
c0 to f0 are tom side hits that run in paralll with 2 to c3.  So c0 matches f2.


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