How to Tune a Snare Drum - Drum Tuning Basics

Drum sound makes up a huge part of how we sound as drummers, so it's well worth spending the time dialling in our drums so we can sound at our best.
Snare drums can be tricky devils to get sounding spot on, so in this video Nick runs us through a few snare tuning tips to get your drum sounding the best it can!
Snare Wire Aligning - • How to Align Snare Wir...
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Gear Featured:
Tama Silverstar Kick - 18x14"
Tama Starclassic Copper Snare - 14x5.5"
Meinl Byzance 15" Dual Hats
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[@dvvalant]

Thank you so much for this fine video. I finally have my snare sounding good!!!

[@johncena123298]

The is the most educational video regarding snare tunning+ the video with the snare wires adjustment. Great Job guys, soon will be getting the hi-hat foot course. Cheers!

[@stoosbloo]

Ace channel! Really cool lessons, and really well delivered 👏

[@jemmace2586]

A great snare tuning lesson. Thanks

[@gigalulmansur]

Excellent information!

[@stevebigby5499]

Nice snare drum sounding 👍

[@grundydan1]

Really in-depth, excellent! The snare side head always gets me, I think I’m quite often guilty of trying to even out the head pitch where the bearing edge is, thanks for correcting!

[@drumdog]

Glad it was helpful!

[@stevebigby5499]

I just like quality snare sound.

[@rapidohernandez]

i love that snare

[@Eurodrummer666]

Nice tutorial! The finger check is a very good idea, but unfortunately it cannot be performed with the S-hoops.

[@cookiecanfly_]

Hey bro! Awesome video. Hey what brand earplugs are you using there? Cheers

[@Chiroman527]

Hey Drum Dog, I am a follower to your channel and while surfing drum tuning this video came up. I want to explain a "weird" occurrence which perhaps you can help explain. I have a DW Design Series Nickel over Brass 14 X 6.5 Snare that I purchased Used via Reverb in early 2021. It came with a HD Dry Batter head and standard clear single ply reso head. It was cranked high by the previous owner (who used the HD dry head which was not the original one). As soon as I played it out of the delivery box, it was vast improvement from the other snares that I had and have. My main kit is a PDP Concept Maple 6 Drum Kit - also purchased used via Guitar Center in 2021. I changed the PDP snare , 14 X 5.5 batter head to a HD dry one. About 6 weeks or so, I had to replace the HD dry head on the DW snare - bought and installed a new HD dry, re-installed reso head and the snare wires. I'm 71 yo, and a Resurrected after a 50 Year Absence [1969] , recreational drummer who is actually new to the art of Drum Tuning. I tuned the DW snare best I could, cranked it medium to high, yet I can not achieve that same sound that I had out of the Box. Then last week, while getting ready to play a session (Ilay about 1 hour a day to My Music), i set the DW atop of my 16 inch Floor Tom, placed the PDP snare in the stand and played. Then while doing a Fill, I hit the DW snare and BINGO... it sounded great - that nice LUDWIG Supraphonic , Jon Bonham sound that I sought!!. Lifted the drum off the Tom and it was not the same. Placing the PDP Maple Snare had a sound improvement atop the Floor Tom. I have posted the same at various Drummer forums. One poster said that this was actually engaging the resonance of the Tom. Another poster jokingly said that I invented a new Snare Stand!! I tried putting a old Remo clear batter head (16 inches) in the snare basket, and place the DW snare on that. The sound was slightly better but not what achieved sitting on the Floor Tom. FWIW, I have Evans G2 Coated batter heads on my 2 Floor Toms & I use Evans E-Rings (which work great to help eliminate any annoying Over Ringing. Nothing on the Snares. Your thoughts are much appreciated. Another consideration is that I have cheapo Griffin Piccolo 13 X 3.5 Snare which I place on top of the PDP snare in the stand that enhances the sound of the Griffin a lot. The Griffin snare has a HD dry batter head as well.

[@t-r-k7534]

crank the resonant head to table top thight

[@Prodrummer1603]

Your Bottom Head is tuned to G# Adam Nolly Tunes aims for a pitch of A, just a half step higher. Seems like G#/A/A# this is the sweetspot for Bottom Snare Heads 😅

[@Joshstix95]

that snare. Why did tama discontinue it