Well, not only have they not found anyone who "got out of" putting in lots of practice, the correlations with practice are huge. I think I put this in another post, but one of the original studies along these lines was of world class violin players at a Berlin conservatory. With the help of the instructors, they ranked all the solo performance players and put them into two categories, then added a third category for people in the teaching program. IIRC, there was about 2000 hours difference in total practice between each of the groups (something like 3000, 5000, and 7000 hours). Importantly though, there were none in the top group who got by with 5000 and nobody in the mid group that got by with 3000. I'm getting these numbers from memory, but you get the point. Nobody required half the practice to get to the same place or something like that.
Sorry, long winded. To your point, people with high IQ or other innate things can pick up things faster, but the advantage quickly dissipates as everyone moves out of the novice category. For example, they studied chess players and found that high IQ people were superior when they were kids and recently learned the game. As they all advanced, the difference diminished and even reversed (speculation being that lower IQ people developed practice habits early on and continued to benefit from them). Grand masters in chess do not, on average, have remarkable IQs.
So yes, I'd agree that some people will "take" to drums quicker than others, but by the time any of them are actually good, let alone great, that will become irrelevant. The one caveat I'd add is that people who have a harder time early on may get discouraged, or receive less external encouragement from others, and so practice less or quit.
Like I said, to me "natural talent" doesn't mean you don't have to practice doing things... It just means by default you're better at it than someone else you're compared to.
You can't tell me if we line up 10 people and all have them do the same (new) things, that they would all end up doing them at the same efficiency/level right away... Some people are just better at certain things. Sometimes it's physical, like being better at a sport because of how your body is built, sometimes it's mental, like having a brain structure and makeup that allows you to have an easier time processing math as in my last example.
In both cases, there would still be immense benefit to practicing those skills, and in fact, those with more inherent talent will most likely benefit even more from that practice. Talent and automatic mastery are just not the same thing.
