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How To Tune A Snare Drum – Part 1 of 2 – Drum Lessons

so let us examine the way that we are going to tune a snare drum snare drum is definitely one of the drums that we hit the most in almost every style of playing whether it be school band

marching band concert band jazz band rock band with your friends learning tunes we need to have a good sounding snare drum there’s no point in also spending like eight hundred dollars on a

good drum if it’s gonna sound something like this I don’t know about you but I don’t like that that sounds terrible that sounds like a $30 snare drum as opposed to an $800 snare drum so let me

show you what I would do to get this drum sounding a little more realistic let’s make it sound like a million dollars never I’m how about that I always start with the bottom head okay

now the tuning principles are the same as they were with the bass drum we just have a much smaller drum to deal with the only problem is we have these snare wires in the way to create this I’ve

seen a lot of guys do this where they get their hand under there they turn the snare off get their hand in there and hold it up the whole entire time the problem with that is it it only frees up

one hand to do the work try my little trick create a little bridge with your other stick now you’ve got two free hands I grab my drum key and I’m gonna start tapping maybe about an inch from

each of the tension rods okay I’m gonna go around again this time a little quicker could you hear the difference in some of them I definitely heard a

difference here especially between these two right here massive difference so I’m gonna bring this one up now with the bottom snare head we can go pretty tight if you remember what I mentioned earlier

when we were putting the heads on when it comes to tuning we can go quite tight okay so I’m actually gonna crank this guy up a full half turn okay go over to full half turn across go to full half

turn and across over to full half turn and across over to and that leads me back to my original so now you can notice that the pitch is quite high did you hear the difference there okay

so I’m gonna do the same thing again but this time I’m going to pay closer attention to which ones might need to come up a bit I’m hearing quite a few that are similar I want to make sure I

can get them all sounding exactly the same so they’re all relatively close at this point okay I’m gonna turn the drum back over and

see what that did did that make a difference sure hope so turn the snares back on it made a difference but I still don’t like it you

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