I've been playing tenors for about 2 years, but I still can't seem to figure out this pattern:

all alternating, rlrl... drums 12211221 repeating like that, where the right hand crosses over on the 2 drum.

Is this played all in the scrape zones or regular zones? does the left hand have to be lower? If anyone could give me some tips or any sort of direction regarding these types of patterns, I would appreciate it.

Your right hand will naturally be higher than your left hand because it's crossing. Practice the motions of each hand individually first, aiming for normal playing areas.

After that cross at the shafts of the mallets. Each hand should be flowing, not segmented, seregated movements. When your hands are flowing, crossing at the shafts (right in front of your fulcrum) you'll be fine.

There will be a tendency to dive bomb (as in come at the drum at a steep angle) with the crossing hand. If you have that tendency make sure the non-crossing hand is low to the drum and the crossing hand is right above it. Again, be sure to be crossing right where your fulcrum starts.

The only examples I could find on YouTube of 1 and 2 crosses are here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCQsi4oAXHY&feature=channel_video_title at :20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxW1-cb-FpU at :18

Hope it helps. Consider making a video of yourself attempting this and put it on YouTube, and post it here. People would be happy to critique it!

Thank you, I really appreciate the help.

A perfect example of what I'm talking about is here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga_9J71OxnE at 0:14, right after the cheeses.

I will practice what you said with the individual hands, and hopefully in a few days be able to get a video up.

Thanks again! (: