[Puta]

Can anyone suggest me in what note do i tune my drum. For every one of it tom, snare, etc. I used s standard set of drum.

[God-of-Thunder]

Well, each shell has a fundamental pitch and unless that pitch or note is stamped into the inside of the shell it is easier said than done to find the pitch. I tune my drums from lowest to highest starting with the kick. I tune the batter head of the kick to the lowest note I can without any wrinkles in the head. The resonant head on the kick I usually tune similar but I dampen it with the Evans EQ Pad. Floor tom is the same drill except with the toms I tune the resonant head first to the lowest note achievable without wrinkles then the batter head I shoot for the same pitch. I do the same for all the toms. I tune my snare drum in a similar fashion, resonant head first. I tune it to a pitch in my head...I almost always ends up deing similar to previous tunings. Batter site I make tight and cracky, not loose and thuddy.
I hope this helps. You can try out this Drum Dial Precision Drum Tuner. It'll help you get the same tunings time and time again.
-GOT

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[Meddy]

For drumming on your own or if your not bothered about changing once your happy, what GOT said is pretty much it. But I heard from my mate whose drummer is pretty knowledgable, and apparently if your doing a gig with a band, you should tune the tom's to the same key as some of the song's you play. Preferably the key which most of your pieces are played in.

Sounds simple, but i've heard it makes a massive difference having your tom's in-tune with the guitar's/vocals etc! Just a little tip heh.

[Puta]

Thanks guys, i've tune my high tom in c note and low tom in a note. I was planning to make it from the highest to lowest sequentially c, a, g and e. Is it right to do that or should i take a same note for all set. Like all in c.

[JD_McJayderson]

Well from what I've been told, you don't necessarily have to tune to actual notes, but more "intervals" which is the distance in tone that you set between each.

I've only been drumming properly for about a week or so and I have an FZ Forum Drum kit.

I don't know much about tuning drums but the setup I found I liked for my snare was to tune the resonant head to one half turn past the initial point when the tuning lugs catch (finger tight) and then I set my batter head to a good high tension (Not quite sure how much but I think it was 3 half turns and a quarter turn or 4 half turns), then I set my snare wire up nice and tight. I find it gives a nice resonant crack without too much leftover tone and not much bad snare wire vibration.

My two toms I normally set them so they're probably about 1 octave or so away from each other (I just tune by ear mostly), with the resonant head fairly tight so as not to get much long sustained ringing, and the floor tom I set up the same but probably about one and a bit octaves away.

My Kick is set fairly loosely on the resonant head (about 2 half turns) and the batter head tuned slightly tighter, and I use the harder side of my beater to get more of a punch to the sound.

[marko46]

First off, I agree with the statement that you aren't required to tune your drums to a specific note, although you can. As said before, all drums have a certain pitch or sweet spot that sounds best for that particular drum. The first thing is learning to find and hear that pitch. I use a drum dial to "get in the ball park", and tune by ear from there. If you're shooting for sustain and a lot of resonation, tune the reso and batter the same. If you shooting for the pitch drop, tune the reso lower. And finaly, if you want the pitch to bend up, tune the reso higher than the batter. Your ears must learn to hear the drum sing.
Hers a link, albeit a bit confounding:
Drum Tuning Bible
Also, check out Gatzens andWeckles youtube videos on tuning. they're good.
Good Luck!
marko

[don11817]

Tuning drums to notes:

The best overall sound that drummers get in a typical 5-piece kit (snare, kick and 3 toms) is to tune the toms approximately a 5th apart in scale. However, there are many things that will affect the ability of a drum to match a note or to get a nice tone if you are trying to do the 5th -style tuning.

Drum shells have a fundamental tone of their own called timbre. To get the most resonance and clearest tone from a drum tune it to (or close to) it's natural timbre. When the heads and shell are resonant at the same pitch the drum will "sing" more.

One way to find a drum's timbre is to remove the drum heads and thump the shell with the heel of your palm while holding it with your other hand by the mounting hardware, allowing it to resonate. If you have a keyboard handy you may be able to identify approximately it's timbre and try to tune to that pitch when you replace the heads.

This is usually a difficult way to tune drums though, and you may find that the drums are not naturally 5ths apart, so tuning to timbre may make a roll around the toms sound different than you want it to. I recommend tuning the floor tom to the sound you like first, to give you a base (and bass) line and a reference point to tune the next largest tom, followed by the smaller tom.

You could tune your floor tom to say, a C note, the 5th up for the next tom is then G and the smaller tom a 5th up would be D etc.... But, it's not necessary to tune drums to notes. You can approximate the tones in your head usually, and can get a nice sounding tuning on the drums if they are close to being 5ths apart. Once you identify the way 5ths sound it will get easier to replicate...

Hope this isn't confusing... I know if you're new it may seem overwhelming but you will eventually get a feel for what tone you want to get out of the drums and how to get it without needing a pitch reference...

[God-of-Thunder]

Hey yall, this is totally unrelated to this thread but I was looking at drumheads today and I noticed this on the AMS site and thought it was kind of cool. They have a new way of listing drum head so you can select multiple heads from one page. Check it out, maybe I'm just a mega nerd but I thought it was kinda cool. Aquarian Super 2 Drum Heads at AmericanMusical.com

[slingerland]

Go to youtube.com and type in Drum tuning and you'll hear and see how to tune your drums.

SLINGERLAND

[slingerland]

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SLINGERLAND