I'm finally starting to get some more interesting patterns going with my kick drumming, but I've realised that my right arm is 'locked' to the kick and I want to break it.

Basically I can hit the hats without hitting the kick drum, but not vice versa. So if I find myself trying to do a kick drum groove that involves playing on the 16th in between the eighth note hat rhythm, I can't help myself but put in an extra hat hit in the middle which shouldn't be there.

Can anyone recommend some exercises to help break this?