Instrument manufacturers and most drum teachers assume the world is Right Handed.  

Drumming convention gives the right hand the dominant part in drumming.

Open-handed playing challenges these conventional contortions impressed upon new drummers out of habit....

Open handed playing focuses on the drummer not the drum kit...using the left hand (if you are right handed) on the hi-hat and the right hand (if you are right handed) on the snare (or anywhere else on the kit).

The open-handed revolution began with legendary and global superstars such as:

• Jim Chapin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chapin
• Simon Phillips,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Phillips_(drummer)
• Billy Cobham, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Cobham
• Danny Cary, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Carey
  
  
   

Symmetrical Drumming Continues and Expands the ethos of a drummer-centric ergonomic approach to playing and to instrumentation…building on the initiative which the open handed players started!! Symmetrical drumming brings the feet into the picture and allows the drummer to sit head-on facing the  instrument rather than off to one side. In the same manner that the pianist sits at their instrument with pedals and keys in front.

Symmetrical Drummers include:
Bill Bruford 

https://billbruford.com/

Mark Campbell 

https://marcuscampbellorum.com/about

Mike Mangini 

https://www.mikemangini.com/
 

Cross handed playing is an unnecessary physical contortion nowadays. 

The standard right handed drumkit played cross-handed is only an option. Its not mandatory. 

Forcing left handers to play right handed and forcing right handers to play cross handed (and at its worst playing with traditional grip contortion) is a conservative hangover…a product of an unchanging western world view perpetuated by habits of mind and body that began with side drumming in Europe two centuries (at least) ago...and passed on and on and on.   

Setup Your Instrument to suit you

Nowadays, in the modern world, setting the layout of the kit (be it Drumkit or Percussion Kit) to suit the drummer is a better approach both musically and ergonomically!  Its not controversial or rare! Its not ‘woke’ and ‘fad-ish’…its good physio!.

I urge you to move your kit playing beyond the mindset and the physical limitation of the centuries old right handed marching side drummer of western military tradition. 

Go Open Handed and then expand into Symmetry!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-handed_drumming