How to Set Up Bass Drum

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Summary: Set up a bass drum, or kick drum, for a drum kit using spurs, like floor tom legs, to support the drum; learn how from our expert drummer in this free drum-kit video lesson.

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Philip Wages Philip Wages has played the drums for over 10 years. He uses his musical talents and knowledge for various church, school, and garage band gigs as well as fo... read more

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by dbunkley

Thank you Phillip. This was very helpful. I succesfully set up my sons drum kit . Excelent how-to guide for novices.

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How to Set Up Bass Drum

Hi! I'm Philip and I am going over how to set up a drum set, and right now we are going to go over the bass drum. There is not much to setting up the bass drum; pretty much everything is in there. There are two different types of system, so we borrowed a bass drum from somewhere and I am going to show you the two types of spurs, is what they are called. You find this on lower end drum sets. This spur is just like a floor tom leg. You loosen it right here at this apparatus, and it is pretty much just like the floor tom mechanism. It just sits a leg inside the drum, so that is how you set up that. This side over here, this drum, my drum has a different type of leg, and what it does... it telescopes. It doesn't have the leg go actually inside the drum; and so you can adjust how long it is right here and when you store it or put it in this cage, pack it or move it, it will loosen right here a lot and then you turn it sideways right here. The advantage to this kind is as you see right here you can tighten this up; have spikes. A lot of times you want to carry a mat with you when you set up your drum set. Have that same surface that you set up your drums on, and if you set up on a gym floor, all the drums and stuff are going to slide around; but if you have your mat to set up on, not nothing is going to move. It's the same if you go to a venue and you are setting up on a hardwood floor or setting up at a church stage, you just want the same surface so everything is similar and more comfortable and you know how everything is going to react. This helps in that situation that you know that it is not going to slide. Those are the two different types of bass drum spurs and that is all there is to it.