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I have started to learn ghosting with my right hand now, playing time on my left very awkward am but It will be useful.

@Kirstin amd @chantale look what I found

Here is another great video

His was one of the first vids I watched on the topic. I love me some Flamuel L. Jackson. If you really want to get down in the weeds, track Claus Hessler whenever you can find him talking about it. This guy wrote a book on the topic with Dom Famularo and to watch him you see how far you can go with it. https://www.facebook.com/drumeo/videos/5-benefits-of-open-handed-drumming-claus-hessler/752626841975525/ If you have a drumeo account, recommend you watch this video there along with the other lessons he has on Drumeo.

I did find the concept very awkward at first. Having seen right handed drummers dominate all over the kit with their right hand, be it the HH, ride, or leading on fills; it made me really question if I'm genuinely playing left handed. Simon Phillips and Claus Hessler encouraged me to stop thinking about it in those terms. But I still have moments. As for the video, it may be Sunday before I get to it. I forgot it is Friday and hubby and I may go out for dinner and he's off work tomorrow. The video will be real primitive, regardless, with me holding the phone in my left hand while demonstrating with my right and playing my electronic kit acoustically. It's sure to be a treat.

Hello. Congrats on your win. Glad you are getting a good start with the open handed layout. As for your questions: 1. My crash 1 is directly to the left of Tom 1, about chest high. Crash 2 is also about chest high to the right of Tom 2. It is on an angled rod to bring it closer, somewhat overlapping the floor Tom. That said, you can put the crashes wherever feels comfortable to you. I find that I use crash 2 on the right way more than I use crash 1 on my left. I'm trying to get better about including it or I may eventually move it. 2. Whatever hand is leading is entirely up to you, though mechanics will dictate. There is no hard fast rule here as long as what you are doing works mechanically and it doesn't trip you up getting into--and out of the fill. One big mistake I made in the beginning is that I sweated the question of what to do with the hands waaaaay too much. I finally learned to just relax and enjoy myself and I let my hands tell me what they wanted to do. We started having a lot less arguments after that. That said, on 8th and 16th note fills, I found it easiest not to force those one way or another. My transition from leading rolls left handed to right handed happened very organically while playing and I think it happened because I stopped trying think or force the issue. Coming off the HH for anything is going to naturally encourage you to start with your right hand. It was only after leading with the right came more natively that I started focusing on learning those 8th and 16th note trips around the kit, left to right. One suggestion that occurs to me is to play around with that fill called the Pat Boone Debbie Boone. It is in the very first beginner fill lesson that @Stephen gives in the Warrior Way. I find this fill to be the easiest beginner fill for an open hander to adopt and get creative with. It is also stylistically similar to what I see a lot of open hand pros doing with either one or both hands. Secondly, Stephen has this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv3f1Emdn2w One thing I have observed is that pro open handers enjoy using single stick fills a lot. It is a very stylistic thing with this crowd but I also think it is motivated by it being super easy to knock out a quick flourish right handed with doubles or Moeller sticking. I absolutely love this video and it is right up our alley. How I adapt this to open hand is my rules are 1. left hand never leaves hat or ride. 2. I build the rules off the bass drum rather than the HH. When I get home, I'll see if I can get you a quick vid of the first basic pattern I adapted from his lesson.