How to Balance a Drum Head

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Now once you've got the drum head and the rim back on the drum, you are going to want to bring it up very slowly just like we discussed when removing the head. So we are going to start with 2 cranks going around. Now this time we are doing the opposite direction with the drum key. We are doing clockwise to the right crank and again, maybe 3 degrees something small for each one. I am doing 2 on each lug right now. Now once you bring the head up to a fairly reasonable tension, it is pretty good right there. You are going to want to make sure that each lug on the drum head is balanced within itself. To do that we can do the star pattern again. So you can place your hand in the middle of the head and really just kind of tap very closely to the lug and you can go across and with that and this one is a little bit looser. So you are going to want to tighten that lug. That is a little bit closer. Now you can start with this one here. Those are close. We will come across the number 4 lug. That one is also close. So this is fairly balanced because we did it correctly when we brought it up especially on maybe some drums that have been sitting around for a while or you know specifically with plastic heads. You are really going to want to go around and make sure these heads are balanced because you are going to get a few overtones from different pitches on the head if you don't take care of this.

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