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Part of the video series: Changing & Tuning a Drum Head

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Summary: Stretch a drum head properly the first time when changing or tuning a drum head; learn how from our professional drummer in this free drum-tuning video tutorial.

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Shaun Schaefer Shaun Schaefer is the drummer for Platinum recording artist Blessid Union Of Souls. An award winner, Schaefer has toured the world and played for the masses i... read more

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How to Stretch a Drum Head

Hi, I'm Shaun Schaefer, on behalf of Expert Village, and today I'm going to show you how to change a drumhead and tune the drum. Now that we have the lugs semi-tightened, it's important to stretch out the drumhead, and it looks like you're going to break the drumhead, but you're not. And what you want to do, you just want to start pressing a little bit, I usually start in the center, and you can hear the drumhead crackling, and if you look, I'm putting all of my weight onto that drumhead. And you see I'm going all the way around the shell, and you see the wrinkles popping up, see how much looser that drumhead is now that I've stretched it? Now the reason why you do this is because if I wouldn't do this, when I'd go put this on and then go play a show, as the night goes on and I play it longer and longer, the actual pitch of the drum is going to go way down, and actually I have a better chance of breaking the head because it isn't stretched, it can't go anywhere, it can't flex. Like when you build a bridge or a big building, you make it so it sways a little bit in the wind or a hurricane or a tornado, because if it didn't it would break or collapse. Same principle with the drumhead, you want to stretch it so it can move throughout the night. So, I think this is a pretty good stretch, and we're going to do this a couple more times because you've kind of got to do it when you tighten the lugs. So this looks pretty good and stretched for now, let's take a look at the next step.

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