 As a result, many drummers in more extreme genres have adopted this technique.Another advantage is a player's access to the floor tom while playing the hi-hats, a feat infamously difficult to pull off in the traditional technique without access to an auxiliary floor tom.In 2008 and 2011 Dom Famularo and Claus Hessler wrote "Open Handed Playing vol.1 and 2", which are lessons focused entirely on open-handed playing.