Drum tuning

[Viruz]

Can somebody help me to tune my drums.How to tune it?Can i follow the guitar open strings notes?

 

[shred5]

Yup.. Try to follow the open strings tuning..

 

[wired]

No, don't follow the tuning of the notes. For a drum with 2 heads, it's impossible to achieve a certain note, trying to match to a certain note is just wasted effort. Tune each drum to the best sound each can ring out to. How I do that by is starting with the batter head, I tune the head up evenly and the sound will go through repeated phases of dead thumps to open sound, back to a dead thump and opens up again. The open sound is the sound that you're trying to achieve, obviously, different drums have different tuning range, so tuning requires a lot of experimenting.

 

[turbochicken]

ah, and, try to make sure both the heads are of almost equal tension. that'd give the drum its best tone (of course, not both heads too tight or too wet).