How to Tune a Drum

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Summary: Properly tune a snare drum by tightening the lugs; learn how with tips 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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How to Tune a Drum

Now that we have cleaned and maintained the whole drum, we can actually start to tune it and see how it sounds. So with the top head you are going to want to add a fairly high tension and the thing about this head is not only does it have to sound good, but it has to feel good. So right now it sounds a little low and it feels a little loose. So we will bring it up again using the star pattern starting on the lug closest to the body on the right, across and then over. We'll see how that sounds. A little bit better. Still got a little bit of that tom tom sound so you really want to get that base tone out of there so you get more of a high pitched tone. One more time around. Okay that's pretty good. It feels at a playable level and it sounds still a little low but we will bring it up more once we get the bottom head and we can start working on the overall tuning of the drum.