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I've been playing simple 8th notes with my snare (weak) hand with an alternating upstroke/downstroke motion and it's doing wonders for my snare hand. I also do a "rim shot" on my pad by slapping the shank of the stick across the surface of the pad on the back beats and add rebound control 16ths on the 3-e-and once I get warmed up, so I have dynamics going on too. I just concentrate on staying relaxed and make sure it sounds like my snare hand is grooving and chugging along by itself without my dominant hand playing anything for it to cue off of. This exercise is so simple, but after a period of not having played for a long time, it is getting my weak hand back to feeling adept and natural again really quickly.