Fijjibo’s special tuning technique!!!

Tuning for some reason seems to be a mysterious art among drummers, and the art of finding a “good” tuning is not actually that hard with a bit of patience.

Tom’s are often portrayed as the hardest to tune, as they often produce lots of overtones, which, coupled with a lack of knowledge of the difference between resonance and  ring, can cause bad tuning choices.

Heres how I tackle toms:

1, seat both batter and resonant heads as described in other tuning sources.

2, take the reso head up to the point where the wrinkles disperse when pressure is applied, then take each lug up a further 1/2 turn

3, take the batter up beyond wrinkle point and leave it.

The fact that the reso is higher in pitch than the batter causes a phase shift  resulting in lots of resonanse without excessive ringing overtones.

I am going to put some more tuning stuff up here soon, but untill then -

SEEYA!!!!