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Summary: Use a muffling patch on your snare drum; learn why you might from our expert percussionist in this free snare drum video tutorial on drum repair.
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Alex Casmiro Alex Casimiro, has been involved with marching percussion for many years. His experiences include marching with the Silver Knights, Targets, Spartans, Madison... read more
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Questions & AnswersA lot of times you will get some strange overtones also from the bottom head and a muffling patch is commonly used to eliminate those. You can really make a muffling patch out of anything. What I like to use this is called moleskin. You can really buy at any convenience store and it is used for shoes. You can usually find in the shoe isle. Depending on how you want the drum to sound, usually put it a little closer to the center it will eliminate more overtones. Closer to the edge will muffle it a little less. You don't have to use this moleskin if you can't find it or if you really don't won't to pay for it, you can always use a plain paper towel or napkin and kind of just fold it up to whatever size. Obviously a big muffling patch will muffle more and take some tape kind of just put it on there whatever spot you choose. You are going to want to make sure that it is the same exact spot on each drum. You are also going to want to make sure that the size of the muffling patch on each drum is consistent. With paper towels it is a little difficult because when you are ripping it, you can always rip a little more or less off. A napkin usually works a little bit better because when they are cut, they are a consistent size and these are also a little more consistent. So the paper towel does work but you are going to want to be very careful using it.
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