I just did a demo for a blues band and here's how I mic'd the drums.... (using 3 SM57's and an AKG C3000)
First, the SM57's...
One mic on a mini-stand, pointed toward the sound hole of the bass drum, about 3 inches back fom the outer skin.
One mic on a regular mic-stand, pointed between the snare and the hi-hat, about 5 or 6 inches back from the gap between them. (about 1 inch above rim level)
One mic on a regular stand, pointed between the 2nd tom and the floor tom, about 5 or 6 inches back from the gap between them. (about 1 inch above rim level of the floor tom)
Lastly, I put the C3000 condenser mic on an overhead mount, at approximately 6 and 1/2 feet from the floor, and ran that mic through
a Mindprint Envoice... running the compression at :5 , and the threshhold at -12 .
This cut down on the bleed-over from the live bass track that was also playing simultaneously with the drummer... and I also used a partition with auralex foam.
The drum tracks, and the entire recording for that matter, came out sounding quite excellent. There wasn't a single thing you couldn't "cleanly" pick out on that drum track.
And when I panned the snare/hi-hat mic out left, and the tom-tom mic out to the right, it gave the drum track some real nice dynamics.
I hope this helped.
........Buck