My biggest problem when starting a new project is the drums/percussion. I never know whether I should just drag and drop/layer samples into the environment manually or do everything through a drum sequencer...it gets very overwhelming and I end up closing Logic. I have iZotope's iDrum plugin, which is pretty basic, but with drum plugins like iDrum and Ultrabeat you drag your pattern out in MIDI, but where do you go from there?

Remember the golden rule: if it sounds good, it sounds good.

So first of all, do whatever is easiest for you. If the simple iDrum plugin works for you, great. Use it. Don't try to over burden yourself with a lot of layers and fancy stuff, just get drum beats down and simple and fast as possible. Doesn't matter how you do it, just do it. Then once you get a nice drum pattern, put a tiny bit of reverb on it, then put an EQ on and put a tiny bit of boost on the mids and highs (so it sounds cleaner), and that's really it. Don't try to overwhelm yourself, just make it sound good enough for you so you can move forward and put other sounds onto the project.

You can learn more technical stuff as you go along, but for right now, do what is easy and try to finish songs.

Try to learn about rythm. Beatbox everything you want then try to remake it with shitty drums.

Once you've a beat you like, then look for the sample you want and replace the shitty one.