Re: A matter of tuning...
If you are going to tune your drums to a specific note, and if you want to go to the extra degree of trouble, you will have to remove all the drum's hardware, hold the shell up inside on two fingers, and strike the shell with your other hand, or a rubber mallet. Try to do this next to a piano, and figure out what note the shell resonates to naturally, then tune the drum to that note. On DW's, they do that at the factory for you, and stamp the note inside the shell. There are drummers who believe in this method, and I've tried it, but I had better luck finding a good resonant sound using a DrumDial. On a kick and floor tom, where there there is not as much of a resonant note, this exercise doesn't seem beneficial as it does on toms.
Otherwise, if you tune your toms about a 3rd apart, it seems to work. An easy test of this is if you can play "Call to the post," (the horse race trumpet call) on your toms. If you are on a 4 piece, it is just the 1st to notes of "Here comes the bride."`
Last edited by =^-..-^=; 08-21-2010 at 07:49 PM.
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