Tuning Your Toms - Drum Lesson (DRUMEO) 

Hey I'm trying to tune my first kit and am still super confused about each head. I had made a drumeo account several months ago and never got to actually use my free trial. Is there advice you can give?

Ear buds or ear plugs?

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That’s funny 😆

Or noise canceling headphones 🔥

Yes.

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@@nickmaille5951 LOL 😂

Exactly! hahahaha

Best pic!

I do, what you don't speak "Rack Tom"?

that rare moment you find another cuber drummer

+Elian Idioma whats your 3x3 pb?

Speed Cube Sam a slow 16

😂😂😂😂💀

LOL me too bro

I know this was seven years ago but this just made me pause the video, stare up at the ceiling and think about myself being an old man absolutely ripping drums. Looking forward to it. Cheers

Its not about what kind if kit you have ! I use to have groove percussion kits with evans heads on them and tune em up and they sound amazing. All you have to do is throw on brand heads to your liking evans,remo,aquarian etc and tune em up you'll surprise yourself

@@jahkmusic5729 thanks man.. I guess I'll give it a try too

Go to zzounds.com Or American musical supply online.. Both of those websites give musicians an opportunity to buy all the gear they need for monthly payments. I bought my pdp dw 7 piece kit with all new batters and resonate heads, cymbal packs, throne, stands, and fee other for under 2grand paying 100+ a month for 8 months and zzounds in 2015 I Just received 3 packages yesterday from AMS with new sabian cymbal pack, all new drums heads, gopro camera etc etc for 200 for the next 5 months. They even do no credit checks. It can happen if u want it to

Out of tune pra caralho! Kkkk

NO worries man, thats why those drums are priced as high as they are. A good drum will have a good tone from the shell as well as the head, where as with a cheaper set, most of the good tones will be coming from the head itself! There are plenty of great videos for making cheaper drumsets sound really good through getting good heads, some dampening, and a little tuning!

Enjoyable sound

How about that sound of the sticks rolling off your floor-tom and hitting the floor?

Yeeeas

@@B-a-t-m-a-n hahahahhaahahha

It's a distinct sound!

I'mTheDrummer Great advice thanks!

Thanks lad!

That's fucking smart! I never thought of doing that. Thank you

Question does mics affect the sound of toms

@@jasonevans5480 suppose they could if the mic is directly clamped on.

Ben LaRose lol douche

Yes. Reminded me of quad players in marching band.

Cold Sleep, We could call Jared, Jared Baker in honor of the Ginger Man, Gingher Baker - he was adept at Tom playing which introduced some African influences with being a Master of Syncopation in his playing. Watch some Ginger's solos from the past and /or watch Beware Mr. Baker documentary. A very Cranky person, but a Helluva Drummer who took Rock Drumming to the Forefront. May he RIP. Br well and safe All in the era of CVV.

Forest Morrell I also have a pearl vision kit!

Shadow 3091 ya and so does good tuning

Good mics won't change pitch of your tuned drums

Follow the studio drummers (not the live drummers). Seek excellence and perfection.

Your age doesn't matter man

My first kit was a pearl export, just an amazing kit to have. I still have it too.

Yeah you do

Normie.

Yes brother

No homo

Oh Turtles are delicious , creamy caramel and pecans covered in smooooooth milk chocolate ,mmmm ,I love Turtles. T.M.

Who'd have thought 😂

The edges some times shed light and need to be sanded down to even them out ,I learned the hard way.

Damn dude 😤😤😤🙁

Me too. There is no way to remove ALL overtones naturally, and even the slightest overtone that most people would thinks sounds fine I HAVE to tune it out.

@Imthedrummer seems legit

Don't we all

I OCD over the position of the heads.... I use clear Remo Pinstripes over clear Ambassadors..... The logos have to be in line with each other, as well as the drum logo.

Jonathan Friedman I do the same on head position

Tom t same

Tom t what are their dimensions?

Sdvc49 I bought the carlsbro csd500 electric drum kit. For the tom 1 2 and 3. Could I use Tom 1 high for Tom 1, Tom 1 medium for Tom 2, and Tom 1 low for Tom 3. I know I sound stupid. Or does it have to be Tom 1 for Tom 1, Tom 2 for Tom 2, and Tom 3 for Tom 3. Thanks in advance

cracked black pepper and rock salt you shouldn’t be here if you have an electronic kit

Picture a butthole in your mind. That's how your toms should sound.

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ME TOO WELCOME TO THE CLUB XDXDXD!!!!!

wouldn't be surprised if you had to be studying right now 😂😂😂

Jonathan Esparza LOL wow, racist much? It's cool it's cool..

Racist?! I thought I was making a relatable comment...

the same here bro ! :D

same!

same lmao

The high pitch overtones in my floor tom almost overpower the rumble, it's awful. I cam to this video for help but he literally just puts on his heads and it sounds amazing. He could take a shit on his floor tom and it would sound great

Wolf753 No thank

Nope

he may do a straight trade if you have a turtle?! :oP

emmittsmith482 XD

*tenor

Alec Ryan quad has four, tenor has 5-6 not much difference

@@kylechad529 well really quad is just a colloquial term at this point, nobody says sextet or quints that much, they're all just quads, or tenors

no,no,no....the head logo MUST be at the 12 o'clock position on all drums for the feng shui to be correct.....otherwise ya gonna play like shit!!!😉😂

I enjoy the esthetics of the drum head logo over the badge of the drum.

12 o’clock in relationship to my playing position, anything else I couldn’t play.

12 o'clock from where I'm playing as well.

Phat Poodles Spot on....

Exactly

FUCK SEATING

very rude, both of you

ahahahha

Pepito, that's exactly what I thought as soon as he acted surprised how quickly the 10" drum tuned.

pepitochavez That profile picture brought a tear to my eye :')

What size is the kick?

um........

This is officially the greatest comment of all time

it's in the mail

FrustratedTurtle Gavin's been at it for decades longer than Jared.

sticks45 you shouldn't have to change the reso head, but you can if you want a different tone or muffling.

Reso heads need to be changed as they stretch. They do wear out.

I don't know why but i hate 13'' and 14'' toms. Maybe too close to the snare or something. Can't stand 13s or 14s.

I also have a hard time with my 14

some may have different definitions of short

what drum set you have?

Ludwig Accent Combo

Zack Mester Have you replaced the heads? Just keep trying. It takes time to get that perfect sound. With enough patience you can make a terrible drumset sound pro.

Haha I've gotten my set to sound good for how cheap it is but there is just simply no way I can match a custom dw kit like in this video

Zack Mester Ludwig accent series wasn't bad those are deep drums. I think one thing that they failed to discuss was the role of each drum head, reso and batter, and more or less that idea of a perfect step down much like when a guitar is tuned and the strings all have the same sequential drop thats what you can almost imagine for your drums. Keep your batter head as your pitch control and your reso head as the depth control also watch Bob Gatzens tuning method he goes more into the cross tuning and how the lugs affect one another

Yeah you do.

NuncFluens we all do

Only their first album

Flo and Eddie.

Hello from the future. In two years you may not be active on this account. You may have a new job. Maybe a new house. Possibly a family. You may look back at this comment and get a wave of nostalgia. Or you may not see it at all.

It depends on your preference if you want the low thump sounds on your toms,use Remo pinestripe heads,the heads are 2ply 7 mil. I personally have pinestripe on my ludwig rocker elite and it sounds great

If you have questions rely to this account this is the account I use morw

Thanks gonna try find one on eBay or Amazon

It is personal preference. If you do choose to use Evans drum heads, then for the top heads, and for a dark tone, you would opt to try out the Black Chrome, EC2 Frosted or Clear, Hydraulics, or Onyx. For brighter tones, go for the G14, G12, or G1. The G2 heads are the mid range tone. Then again, that's based on personal preference, and also depends on what sound you're trying to achieve.

Wow things just got harder!

on his shirt

rocketscrub try new head I like Evans for the level 360 and get a 2 ply head it will help a lot and moongel

Once the band kicks in............do ya think anyone's gonna notice?........It was close enough for jazz! lol!

+Stevie Ross yeah but I just watched a video called how to tune your toms and the toms were not in tune

+Plexus well, if you say so.......who am I to contradict?

Plexus like he said, it may sound horrible to you, and that's ok. Tune your drums to what you like. If that's the way he likes it, then that is the way he is going to tune it.

It’s just you, they sound amazing. Awesome drums, awesome sound.

Do what he did and tune each lug. On both sides. batter and reso. I've never come across a kit that didn't sound good when tuned right. And like he said experiment. your top head might actually sound good but your reso is ruining shit.

first and foremost new double ply skins.if for some reason they don't sound good, then mute with duct tape or gel on the side that's really reslly very important especially with cheaper sets to get rid of that metallic sound, I start with my front high tom or low tom then make the rest relative to that w.e. u no best sound wise. your bottom heads are resonating the initial hit on the front head so if the drums arent great u dnt want them to resonate a whole lot, your going to be relying on the skin more than the wood on lower quality set, ive done and hears both the following, tune bottom head lower than front head. if u dnt like it try tuning it higher thsn the front. I'd say stay on the looser end then mute with tape honestly I've been playing cheap sets and making them sound good for years promise get a relatively nice pitch or stable tone out of each tom get them close to a drumset u can sound copy. then mute with a 3 to 5 inch piece of duct tape on the furthest side of the front skin. somthing that will be very sticky i no gorilla tape deff. works best u dnt want the pieces of tape to peel off in the corners then u will get a vibrating out of it. hold your warm hand on the tape for 30 sec or so let it bond b4 u ply

Grab a tune-bot:) Takes all the guess work out of the process.

but without tuning everything else is worth shit