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Tutor should assess you for stamina and steadiness of time keeping before placing any demands on your playing.
If you want to get fancy, ask about polyrhythms.
Learning specific pieces requires preparation by both student and tutor. Unless you nominate an extremely well known cover version, it should be part of a programme of scheduled lessons.
Either way, it's probably a good idea to have an idea what you want to improve. If you haven't identified something (or can't work out what could be improved), then that would be my starting point -ideally to identify it in advance, but also to ask the tutor to say whatever he feels it is, based on your playing. I know my main flaw at the moment is a tendency to hit the kick ahead of the beat, so that's what I'm working on.
I'm not really sure what I want out of it, I know there are some things that I can improve just by focusing on individual practice with a click so it seems a bit of a waste of the opportunity to focus on those with a tutor. I obviously work a lot with a click on guitar so I understand how I would achieve general tightening.
Polyrhythms would definitely be a good one as Danny Carey is my favourite drummer but I suspect tool songs are a bit beyond my ability right now.
I'm thinking left hand independence might be a good one as I'd say its weaker than my right hand, you know for doing the kind of fast 16th grace note stuff on the snare and that would generally help with polyrhytms too.
Maybe some double bass stuff as it's definitely shakier time-wise and could maybe do with breaking out of my go to building block licks there.
Maybe some increased fill vocab, but then from spending a long time programming drums I think my creativity there is not too bad and if I put my mind to it I could just teach myself to execute those parts even if I can play them right now.
Really into constructing tom grooves around rudiments at the moment so perhaps some scope there.
Just thinking about my own experience with guitar, I had to unlearn and relearn some picking technique that I'd taught myself. I didn't even realise it was an issue until a teacher pointed it out.
I haven't had a drum lesson in years now, I don't have the time but quite a few of my friends teach, Boyd Hayward, Steve Duffy, Jack Stephens and a few others. All are local to Ports and Southampton
Ideally, you should be able to make the noise that you need to make with the minimum of effort.