[slingerland59]

One trick to expanding your horizons is to play the familiar sticking patterns over different groupings of notes, instead of straight eighths. For example, play 5-stroke roll sticking (RR LL R, LL RR L) over this figure -- triplet, 2 eighth notes, triplet, 2 eighth notes. Even playing a double stroke roll pattern (RR LL RR LL) over a bar of triplets is mind blowing, or over a pattern of triplet, quarter note, triplet, quarter note.

You just talked about snare chops, but if you move these patterns around the drums you'll get creative. To keep it all practical, play two bars of a beat, then two bars of the fill (sticking pattern on snare first, then around drums), then back to the beat.

I'd consider getting a good teacher too, if that's possible. I had a brilliant teacher in Ottawa named Chuck Burrows. He gave me 10 pages of sticking sheets that still challenges me today. There are some drummers out there with unlimited creativity and they are willing to share their ideas. Rock on!