Drums & Percussion

Re-Skin & Tune your drums properly

- Place the new skin on shell, and press down hard with your palm to seat the head.

- Tighten the lugs with your finger first till they stick, and then tighten each lug by 1 full turn. Tighten one lug, then the one opposite it rather than tightening each lug round the shell. Eg - Tighten 12 'o clock and then 6 'o clock and then 2 'o clock and then 8 'o clock etc.

- Put the drum down somewhere like a cushion. And tap 1" from each lug all the way round, going from one lug to the opposite one like in the first place, Until they all sound the same.

- Do same to bottom head. As a rule, use a thinner head on the underside than for the batter head. The bottom is the "resonant" head, and thinner heads resonate better.

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