Here’s a little thing suitable for jazz at fast tempos, resulting in a Billy Higgins-like sound. Billy Higgins at times. He’ll do a lot of unisons between hands, partial spangalangs, and alternating singles.
There are two elements to it. Reading from Syncopation, you’ll be playing quarter notes on the cymbal with your right hand, and playing the melody rhythm on the snare drum with your left.
Except:
Where you see that typical 8th-quarter-8th syncopated figure, play the beginning of it with both hands in unison. If it starts with a rest, play the cymbal on the rest:
Where there are three or more notes in a row, play them with an alternating sticking on the snare drum. Where the run of 8ths starts on the beat, as in the second and third examples below, you’ll be starting with both hands unison— in effect doing a double left at the beginning:
You’ll find it’s quite a readable system, even with the very dense Exercise 2 on page 39— that may take a little practice.
Add hihat on beats 2 and 4. Play at whatever tempo you need to to read it, then be drilling it between about half note = 120-165, or faster. As with anything where the goal is to play it at a very fast tempo, practice with straight 8ths even at tempos where you would normally swing, in jazz. Of course it would also be reasonable to learn this for medium tempos as well, in which case you would swing the 8ths.