How To Set Your Kick Pedal Like The Pros

[@toddshook1765]

Thanks. Being new to drums I am learning how to set kit up so when practice I am productive and comfortable.

[@randomnav]

You have a bad habit of smacking your lips and waving your hands. In any case your video is stellar. I learned a lot.

[@SteveHowardDrums]

I’m afraid the microphone picks it up it’s not my lips lol 😁

[@brianmusgrove8547]

Thanks for this! I've been getting double hits with my kick, and loosening the beater's spring has totally fixed it.

[@SteveHowardDrums]

Nice one

[@gdr1174]

Good explanation thanks

[@KamalBensra]

Thank you so much for the video. It's very helpful. I have a question that I hope you can help me with. I play heel up and I bury my beater. When my spring is tight, my pedal sometimes makes unwanted hits when I bury the beater. I hope you know what I mean. I hit the bass drum, and then because the tension is high, the pedal has an extra unwanted hit. How do I avoid that?

[@SteveHowardDrums]

Thank you, I bury the beater into head also. Your spring shouldn’t be tight though as you end up fighting with the spring. Try making it quite loose.

[@KamalBensra]

@@SteveHowardDrums Alright, thank you for your reply! =)

[@stephen285]

as I understand it you don't want percussive vibrations going into the foot, thus at the exact moment when the beater is making contact with the head you don't want the foot pressed into the pedal - can you learn us up on how one learns to do that? bouncing the beater so to speak, thanks for the vid, you're a good man Charley Brown

[@jordonpolete7381]

I'm somewhat new to drumming! Got a used kit for my birthday my pedal only came with one tension nut! Is it easy to add another one? The one I have is connected to the bottom it doesn't have a top one!

[@SteveHowardDrums]

The nut should be at the bottom of the spring. Kinda hard to help without seeing it

[@RhombusMcGillicutty]

twenty lip smacks later i had to leave

[@louislouislouisloui]

That’s all I can concentrate on now haa

[@jasonthedrummer]

Who gives a shit.

[@RhombusMcGillicutty]

stop smacking your lips