Lesson 01
Why Bother with Drum Tuning?
Why drum tuning matters and why drums are more challenging to tune than other instruments.
It's a good question, but one most experienced drummers will be very aware of the numerous answers to. Drums and drummers often receive a hard time from other musicians, because they are so 'straight-forward' in comparison to many instruments – you just hit them and they make a noise! But, actually, drums are much more difficult to tune than a guitar or violin, for example. Guitars have one single tuning head for each string, which you turn and tension until the exact musical note you are looking for comes up. OK, you might not have perfect pitch hearing, but you can listen to a piano or electric keyboard until the guitar string and the piano note you are looking for...[lesson locked]
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Course content by Professor Rob Toulson – Professor of Musical Acoustics, Inventor of iDrumTune and author of the book Drum Sound and Drum Tuning: Bridging Science and Creativity.