How to Mount Tom Toms on Bass Drum

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Next we're going to look at mounting our rack toms. Now I have two rack toms, this is the twelve inch, and I also have a ten inch that I'll be mounting. Now one option for mounting rack toms and there's controversy and discussion over what's best, is to mount them on the bass drum, as this is here. As you can see, I have a double tom mount here, and although it's hard to see over on this side, it uses the same kind of ball bearing idea that my floor tom uses down over here. So personally, I choose not to have both of my toms mounted on the bass drum. I have one because I play open handed, with my left hand on the hi-hat, I like to mount mine on a cymbal, which I'll show you later. So what I'm going to do with this side is just turn this down so it's out of the way. And I'm going to go ahead and loosen the bolt on my middle tom, or my bigger rack tom, slide it on and tighten it. Now obviously your concern here and it's always been a concern for me because I probably like to line my toms up, is that the tom not touch the bass drum. When we're talking about acoustically mounting and proper acoustics, the last thing you want is two drums touching each other. So keep that in mind. This is the best angle for me, given how I can mount it. And I can easily get between the two drums. As you can see, we've still got the rattle over here that we're going to work out once we get our cymbals in.

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