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First of all, congratulations on being able to ask you question with only one sentence.
Get Stone's Stick Control book, the undisputed, indispensable classic. It goes under the assumption (like just about every other drumming book out there) that the player is right-handed, and therefore is predominantly using the right hand to lead. Its excercises are always inverted (ex. a right-hand-leading figure of RLL RRL will always have a corollary LRR LLR figure.) But the rudiments always start off with the right hand. Bear in mind you don't need a book at all, really; just take the stickings you know, and switch 'em, so that every L you usually is now a R, and vice-versa.
I'm going under the assumption that you're a leftie. I myself am a leftie who decided to go with my natural tendancies (leading with the left, that is), and switch my whole kit around, ass-backwards style; so I play BD with left foot, ride on my left, toms descending high-to-low right to left, etc. . It's just the way I was meant to play.
But I digress. I would say if you're going to be playing with another snare drummer, then start consciously leading with the right hand, all the time, if visual unison is necessary. Annotate the drum charts with their right-leading stickings. Write down figures that you now play leading with the left hand, and reworking them to lead with the right. You might have to practice more than the other guy, but you'll come out of it a stronger player for it.
OR you could try to make sure the new snare drummer is a leftie too!
Fitz
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