Music Tweak Blog

Time to tune your drums? When you have put the drum head on make sure you have put all the parts back on, make sure all the tension rods have a washer and tighten them up finger tight, not using your drums keys just yet. Another good tip is to put some oil on the tension rods to help make everything screw in smoother and even extend the life of the rods. Now get two drum keys to tune your drums to save on time and follow the tightening pattern that is shown in the video. Next step is Seating the head, there are three purposes for doing this 1 is to break in the head, 2 to test the head and make sure its not faulty and 3 making the head stick. Just start by tuning the drum higher than what you usually would in a normal playing position, to do this just tune a half turn up with you drum keys as shown in the video. The last step it to give the drum CPR by pushing pressure on the head of the drum, what you will hear is some crackling of the drum, this is a good thing, I means the drum is setting and sitting rite. Now its time to loosen the head all the way till the tension rods are finger tight again. Now to get the rough tuning you will use your tensioning pattern to tighten the head up until you get a tone from the drum.