tunning drumms

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im not a drummer but my cousin is he bought a 300 dollar drum set from target and he knows absolutly nothing about drums and i was wondering if you could tell me how u tune a drum set is there like tunners u can buy like guitar tuners right now we just put em on so they were tight enough to make a clean sound i gues
 
marshall.amps said:
im not a drummer but my cousin is he bought a 300 dollar drum set from target and he knows absolutly nothing about drums and i was wondering if you could tell me how u tune a drum set is there like tunners u can buy like guitar tuners right now we just put em on so they were tight enough to make a clean sound i gues
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you can get buy a head tension gauge that will allow you to help set the tension at each lug to be the same, but that is not exactly tuning. It is really helpful to get the drums to a stable tone on the top and resonant head, and then someone with an ear can tune it to perfection. I have no such ear, so i find the gauge to be pretty helpful.

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resonant im not sure what that is and r tensoin gauges expensive?
 
i have read about a paragragh and its saying drummers have to no how sound works and stuff lol i would never think that my cousin would do that i push him to get of runescape just to practice he plays for like an hour an hes like dude i practiced so long today i play through 3 songs twice he doesnt even no what riff means
 
lol i know i tell him to buy new stuff for his drum set and hes like no way man im spending my money on video games (runescape) he spends 70dollars a year!!!!!!! on video games and thats just runescape hes not very idk but i gona need to know what resonant means please, thanks
 
no it wasnt a silver tone it was a name that started with a b i cand remember it was like budwidge or somethin hes bought new high hat and crash with stand but thats it i wanan try to get him to buy a new double bass pedal and crash cause his crash is a little warn out
 
marshall.amps said:
lol i know i tell him to buy new stuff for his drum set and hes like no way man im spending my money on video games (runescape) he spends 70dollars a year!!!!!!! on video games and thats just runescape hes not very idk but i gona need to know what resonant means please, thanks
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Well, if he's unwilling to maintain the set, why did he buy it?

A DrumDial is about $60 and will help get you in the ballpark, tuningwise. However, I would not expect the stock heads that came with a Target drumset to hold tuning (not to mention the quality of the lugs and hoops :eek: ).

Otherwise, just tune them according to the drum tuning bible posted above. It will take a long time (probably 4-6 hours) to tune the whole set the first time if you have no idea how to tune drums.
 
well i play guitar so were in a "band" i said one day u should learn drums and well rock out and then he was like yea ye athat would be awsome he says he wants to play and i believe him but hes lazy when it come to learning and sometimes it pisses me off but he can play some songs i cant but can play way more than he can (probably dont understand what i said but i dont feel like explaining not that important anyways)
 
marshall.amps said:
...and then he was like yea ye athat would be awsome he says he wants to play and i believe him but hes lazy when it come to learning and sometimes it pisses me off...
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sounds like a drummer to me. ;) :D
 
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apparently so.

ive never messed with a target kit, but id assume its probably not very good. but hell, i have a cheapo rogers set, and with decent heads and proper tuning, it sounds pretty decent. anyway, to tune drums, you just have to do it yourself. read up on it (oh no, theres that reading thing again), understand whats happening, and just do it. grab your little drum key and get to work. youll probably screw it up the first few tries, but keep at it, and youll eventually get it. a drum dial is totally unnecessary and not to mention expensive. hell, its just drums dude. they tune like anything else. find their 'pitch' and go from there. they just require a little more hands-on to get em right.
 
I don't see the difference between reading these posts and reading a drum tuning FAQ. There was something called the drum tuning bible, I can't find the link right now.
 
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