Getting snare rudiments around the kit

the fastest way to get better is to practice the rudiments slowly on each drum and gradually increase your speed. it takes more of a wrist stroke to play the toms since there's less bounce/rebound from the top head's tension.

if you're trying to do bounce or buzz rolls on the toms try playing closer to the rims as the tension is higher farther away from dead center (there's a reason it's called dead center).

the choo-choo exercise is good for building up your speed. play a rudiment at least 8 times on one drum, then speed up just slightly - enough so that it sounds and feels faster but not so much that it's harder to play - and play the rudiment again for another 8 times. lather, rinse, repeat until it gets difficult to play the rudiment cleanly and then keep it at that tempo until it feels easy before speeding up some more. the longer you take to speed up the more benefit you get from it. once you get too fast and start making mistakes or can't feel like you can play any faster, slow back down a little to a comfortable tempo and repeat the process: repeat it 8 times and then speed up just a little, repeat it for at least 8 more times (16 is even better) or until it feels easy, then speed up a little bit again, etc., etc.

the name choo-choo is because you are mimicking a steam locomotive train leaving a station from a dead stop. it takes a long time for the train to get up to full speed and that's the reminder. if you try this process with double stroke rolls you end up sounding just like a steam locomotive. plus it sounds silly so it's harder to forget what choo-choo means in drumming.

i hope this helps!