Great Jonathan! Would love to see a video on the drum heads and tuning you use!!! That would be so cool....thanks for your indepth answer here as well!!!
Beautiful and smooth playing and fills Jonathan. How are you tunning your heads on toms and bass? Would love to hear your thoughts! Maybe a future video? Your drums always sound perfect for what style of music you play and your playing....what else can I say but one word....perfection!!!
Thanks Bruce. I may just do that video. I think my approach is very simple. I use my ears. I start on the bottom head. I just want it to sing and resonate as much as it can for that drum. Flip it over and pull it up to a medium tuning or when it starts to sing. I like a bit of dip in the sound. So the bottom head is tighter than the top. Works out at about a minor 3rd depending on the drum. It's popular now, to tune floor toms really low and to try and get an almost secondary bass drum sound. I don't do this typically. I like to play the floor tom and in most musical settings, if the drums are adventurous and not just playing a back beat support role, a low tuned floor tom gets in the bass players frequency space and creates porridge. Especially live, a floor tom that's edging toward the higher side of say, medium, will cut through better and not interfere with the bass. The bass is still there so there's enough of an illusion that the tom is producing more bottom end than it is. I would tune drums for Bop kit differently. This is just my sound. The way I like it. It changes for other peoples projects and musical contexts - It wouldn't if I had my way, though..
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Great Jonathan! Would love to see a video on the drum heads and tuning you use!!! That would be so cool....thanks for your indepth answer here as well!!!
Beautiful and smooth playing and fills Jonathan. How are you tunning your heads on toms and bass? Would love to hear your thoughts! Maybe a future video? Your drums always sound perfect for what style of music you play and your playing....what else can I say but one word....perfection!!!
Thanks Bruce. I may just do that video. I think my approach is very simple. I use my ears. I start on the bottom head. I just want it to sing and resonate as much as it can for that drum. Flip it over and pull it up to a medium tuning or when it starts to sing. I like a bit of dip in the sound. So the bottom head is tighter than the top. Works out at about a minor 3rd depending on the drum. It's popular now, to tune floor toms really low and to try and get an almost secondary bass drum sound. I don't do this typically. I like to play the floor tom and in most musical settings, if the drums are adventurous and not just playing a back beat support role, a low tuned floor tom gets in the bass players frequency space and creates porridge. Especially live, a floor tom that's edging toward the higher side of say, medium, will cut through better and not interfere with the bass. The bass is still there so there's enough of an illusion that the tom is producing more bottom end than it is. I would tune drums for Bop kit differently. This is just my sound. The way I like it. It changes for other peoples projects and musical contexts - It wouldn't if I had my way, though..