Customer Reviews

Drum Tuning: The Ultimate Guide

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I have been away from drumming for 18 years. I recently bought a used kit (Pearl Masters BRX) and thought it would be a good idea to replace the heads. Obviously I hadn't tuned a drum in years so I needed some help. This book is very informative and covers every detail relating to drum heads and tuning. I do think the audio CD falls a little short. A DVD would be better, but the book is so good I'd recommend it even if the cd weren't included!

After a long hiatus, I returned to drumming about a year ago. Although the basics of tuning came back quickly, I never REALLY learned to tune well when I was younger. In reading a variety of drum-related books I have come across many approaches to tuning. Most of these methods were too simple to produce the results I sought. As I continued my search I did come across an excellent web site "Prof Sound's Drum Tuning Bible v3" (http://home.earthlink.net/~prof.sound/) which I suggest to anyone serious about tuning. This web site contains even more information than Schroedl's book but it provides no audio reference files (not critical but very helpful) and the approach to tuning is really more than I am willing to undertake regularly. The information on this site did, however, allow me to achieve the sound I sought.

Searching for a simpler approach, I ordered Schroedl's book. This book presents a simple, straightforward approach that gets the job of tuning done effectively and efficiently! The audio files are helpful (some more than others) and serve to clearly demonstrate what is written. I can now get my drums sounding just the way I want and do it quickly. Thanks to this book, I spend more time playing and less time fiddling with my drums. I highly recommend the book.

This is a good book overall, but relatively brief when it comes to certain topics. He covers replacement of heads and basic tuning principles fairly well, but doesn't write extensively on maintenance of drum heads.

For those of us who can't afford to put new heads on a set every month or two, we need a book that covers the fine art of periodic re-tuning more extensively. I'd shop around a bit more before purchasing this book.

The book should rightly be titled "how to Change your Drum Heads" as it has little info about tunings other than the physical steps one takes to mount and tighten drums heads. "Tune up for Jazzy" "Tune down for rock" that's about it -

I was most keen on learning how to tune drums and purchased this book because I wanted a complete guide in one package. The included audio CD is a good supplement, but as another reviewer said, a DVD would have been better. It's hard for me to have to use the left/right panning of some of the examples to guess which lug on the particular tom the guy is talking about when he hits the head of the tom tom hes describing.

However, I have learnt a few technical issues with drums that I never came across anywhere else! So I'm happy with that. If you've never learnt proper tuning before, this book is a good place to start, but I wish I could find a book that had a greater in-depth resource to finer points of tuning and some video examples too to make each point better explained.

I found the instruction in this book and dvd to be very useful for tuning my drumset. I used to tune them from the advice of friends who've played longer than me, but I found that by doing it the proper way, it's much easier to get the tone and the sound I wanted. Great intruction!

VERY NICE FORMAT TO THIS INSTRUCTIONAL PAPERBACK BOOKLET. GREAT ILLUSTRATIONS AND EASY TO FOLLOW. VERY INFORMATIVE AND EDUCATIONAL FOR THE DRUMMER

OK THIS IS A GREAT BOOK ENTRY LEVEL OR ANYTHING YOU WANT,BUT YOU HAVE TO UPTODATE ON YOUR TUNING ,SNARE DRUM IS THE WORST ENEMY,SO PRACTICE ON THE SNARE ONCE GET THE SNARE THE BEST OR TUNE IT CORRECTLY AND PROPERLY.THEN THE TOMS AND BASS ARE CHILDREN.THE THING ABOUT THE SNARE BUZZ TOO MUCH IT VIBRATES.THIS IS THE RIGHT BOOK TO GET YOU STARTED,GOODLUCK ON TUNING!