snicker... snicker...  yea, right!  

actually, i just wanted to get some impressions on my snare tuning method.

i read Bart's reso side first / batter side tuning method, and thought i'd give it a go on my beat to crap Yammy snare.

soooo, speaking hypothetically, would the following method work ok for my snare drum?

first, i would place the drum with the batter side down on a carpet to muffle it, and begin tightened, then tuning the snare side to the sound i best liked.

then i'd flip it over, but place the drum on its stand, and commence tightening and tuning the batter side, juuuust until, i got the snare drum sound just the way i'd want it.

tuning is still very new to me, and i'm trying to swallow as much info on the subject before i set out today to work those skills to make my snare as well as kit, even more versatile.  

any thoughts or pointers i missed that i shoulda/coulda/woulda done for an even better snare/drum sound?  btw, would this method work ok for my other drums on the kit?

oh yea, and big ups to B, for the inspiring tuning article!  you made tuning sound much more managable than that daunting "drum tuning bible"...

I recently talked about my "new" snare tuning method (thanks to Bart) on another thread.  On a scale of 1 to 5 I torque the batter head to about a 4.  Then I torgue the snare side to about a 4 1/2.  Then, a technique I learned from Roy Burns to minimize ring, I loosen the 4 lugs surrounding the snare wires about 1/2 of a turn making sure that the snare side is still at a higher pitch than the batter side.  If not, tighten the remaining lugs on the snare side a quarter of a turn and see it that does the trick.

As for snare wires, I start with the wires so loose they hang from the bottom head.  Then, while tapping the batter head with a stick, I slowly tighten the snare wires until I like the sound.  If the snare wires start to choke the resonance of the drum, I know I've gone too far.

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