It's an OCD thing. COVID had me doing some repainting, ergo removing light switch covers. Putting them back, I turned all the screws vertically. Just a little touch nobody (but me) would notice. It's a difference that doesn't make a difference. I hear you brother, and I also "get" tuning drums to a particular chord. Cymbals too; I'm always amazed when cymbals match the key of the song! Does it need it? Nah. It's the playing that matters anyway.
I totally agree with you. But I have to say I wish you would tune your rack toms just a tad higher, but that's just me. Btw Still wondering about how you hooked up the ninth mic to the mixer, if you don't mind 👍👍👍
Rob, that intro just about killed me. I was laughing so hard , I missed the first 2 mins. of the video. I have a D.W. kit and I've never tuned it to the notes on the inside of the shell. I got a new Gretsch USA Custom kit last weekend. No notes on the inside of the shell, just the gray sealer. I've been tuning my drums using the finger in the middle of the head, and tightening the tension rods until the wrinkles are gone. like you show in a previous video. Works great every time. Thanks Rob for all your great videos!!!
The note on the inside of a DW shell is there to tune the resonant head to that note for the best shell resonance. So its not about tuning the note of the drum to the note thats on the inside of the shell.
I’m fifty years old and I’ve been playing drums most of my life. This is one of the best channels on CZcams. I really enjoy Rob’s playing, teaching, input, and enthusiasm. Another quality video. Thank you.
I’m 50 years old and I just started playing a year ago. This lad is the only one I tune my drums too so ya your right?? I spent nearly 48 hrs solid trying to tune my drums on CZcams, then I found this lad, ffs 48 hrs I was bolloxed and me drums sounded like arse.
I'm 39 (not a drummer) bought my 10yr old son a gently used Ludwig element kit & put new batter heads on it & spent days going from video to video getting conflicting info on this subject, downloaded tuning apps & drove myself mad just wanting the kit to b right so it would be good for him to learn on & exciting to play. Found this channel from recommendations on Reddit & within an hour had everything sorted & sounding great, the snare was my biggest hurdle but now it's good just a touch of unwanted ring that a single moongel took care of. If not for this channel I'd still be pulling my hair out & my son wouldn't be enjoying his new kit. 🙏
“Nobody cares!” - My all time favorite reason of them all!! Love it! It is absolutely the truth!! I love the dig on DW too. Having toured the factory and talked to John Good and a few of the folks who build them, the purpose of that stamp is so you know the primary pitch of the drum shell without anything added. You know when your tuning a Tom and you hit that “sweet spot” where the shell just comes alive and sings? You are near that core note and the frequencies are just working better than the rest of the range. That so called “sweet spot” and the core note of the shell are somewhat related. But that’s all there is to it. As you said; there’s a range. And it is absolutely true that nobody cares!! Lol... Keep it focused on rhythm!!
Agreed, get em tuned in the sweet spot so they all sound good amongst another and play. Nothing will improve your sound more than working on yourself and with others, instead of an object.
It goes back to what you said in another video. "It's not the drums that sound good. It's me." 100% true! I could sit on your set and still sound like an amateur, because that's exactly what I am. And you could sit on my set and sound like a professional, because that's what you are. Great video and thank you very much...
Just love your presentations Rob. Wether or not we all totally agree they are honest, challenging and refreshing. One of the most humorous presenters ever - that's a compliment as humour adds colour to the subject matter and makes it easier to understand.
He said: “Never sacrifice your snare drum for the sound of your toms.” 🤯 I’ve spent more than two weeks trying to figure out why my snare drum is buzzing every time I hit the toms. I’ve been looking everywhere until I got into this video wow. I hope this knowledge will help me to fix the issue when I get into my studio.
Dude, I SO ENJOYED your take on that whole thing! Not only were you SPOT ON, but very entertaining as well. I got the biggest kick out of some of your analogies. There was absolutely NOTHING for anyone to get angry about in this video, (well, maybe my Grandma, lol) Thank you for the enjoyable take on this much debated subject. I'm in your camp with this all the way! 🥁
Hey man just wanted to say that I’ve recently started watching your videos and I really enjoy them. They’re really helpful. And you seem real you know? Keep them coming.
Well said I had a moment of insanity I was thinking of buying a tuning toolbut I thought to myself I'm just tuning for my room not for a gig.I found your tutorials for tuning snare Tom Tom's floor Tom's and kick drums are absolutely what I needed. Thank you for the video.
Man you got it all going on. It's a pleasure watching your vids loaded with a wealth of knowledge and experience and topped off with a heavy layer of common sense.
I love your easy, quick and very practical method of tuning toms as it averts great frustration and needless agony hahaha love your channel man you are the best!
Mr. Brown, this is the 3rd or 4th video I've seen of yours (1st one was during Covid lockdown when you reviewed "silent" practice heads and cymbals) and your videos always have positive and relative impact on common drum/drumming issues. Thank you sir!
Rob - My first introduction to you was your video, "TUNE YOUR TOMS QUICK & EASY!! - TOM TUNING 2018 WORKSHOP". More than removing my frustration as a new drummer not knowing how to to tune my kit and the science lesson a well meaning drummer friend extended, it gave me lasting confidence to tune all my drums and the ability to relate to the excellent points you make here. Great job.
I had a 32 year break from playing drums but got into playing again with the band a use to play with back then (Horse of Troja) I had forgetting most of my drumming skills so I had to start all over again. Like tuning my drums. And then I found you👍 And my life gets so much easier 🤗 So big thank you for all of your great videos. I'm very greatful to have found your videos. Have a great week 😎
Thats what I like about your videos. You dont make a rocket science out of everything when it can be done much more the simpler way with the same endproduct. Just like your drum tuning videos, nice and simple with the result the most are looking for not like other complicated videos that make you wanna just leave haha.
Dude....you kill me! I've been playing for a very long time and am super appreciative of the instruction. That said, I tune in as much for the belly laughs I get. Grandma was wrong.
Love how you do it Rob!....... You flow with what you know and pass it down to the rest of us so it stays fun and pleasing...... Thanks my brother......😄👍🏾🙏🏾👏🏾👌🏾
This is great. I've always done it by ear, use the "crinkle" method and then dial it in from there. Always gotten compliments since I started doing it that way. I try to keep the intervals between toms appropriate but again, it's all by ear
Rob, you killed me with this video dude!😂😂..... I know nothing of notes or scales but i can tell high from low!.... served me pretty well so far!... keep it up dude, absolute gold!🙌
100% correct. Especially about the "Nobody Cares". Tune according to what you like to hear, and in the way that's going to get you there the fastest. i recently changed the heads on the church kit last week for service recording. Took me about 20 minutes to remove all 3 old heads, place the new heads, give them a little stretch, and tune them up to my desired pitches. 20 minutes to reskin the entire kit (minus the kick drum. That one is still sounding amazing) and my sound guy, who also happens to do sound semi-professionally and does recordings all the time, said "The drums sound amazing. I can't wait to record them". Tuning drums is not rocket science. Make sure you're getting a clear tone, and simply your 10 inch tom should be a higher pitch than your 12 and 16.
Im glad I listened till the end. this tuning farce goes all the way back to around 1975 give or take a few years, when a drum store salesman advised me to tune my drums in thirds starting with the bass drum at "G". I used a piano to acomplish this task and when I showed up at my next gig, not one other guy in the band noticed any difference in the drum sounds. so # 11 Rob, if you dont tell anybody, they absolutely wont know. lol good video..
This was dead on! After years of tuning experimentation early on in drumming, at some point I found drums had sweet spots and just about any kit will sound good if you find the sweet spot of the lowest tom and tune the rest of the kit to "First Call" (the trumpet call that lines up horses before a horse race.) all the drums will just sound great! I never play more than a 2 up 2 down kit, usually 1 up 2 down so, with my snares off I tune my snare to the highest tone but when playing with 2 floor and 2 rack I tune them to First Call and the bass and snare to something that just feels right! This way, as you say, you're tuning the drums not to a specific key but to themselves instead. This has worked for me for over 40 years of drumming.
Thanks for this relevant approach that demistify drum tuning, it really helps to turn the keys without mind complications and more than everything, it goes straight to the point. I'm sure this kind of mindset is also a huge source of freedom and happinness when playing, which certainly makes us sound better or at least feel true authentic good vibes, kind of essence of drumming. Your snare sounds so good.
Great video! Tuning by ear is the best way to do things. You'll learn a lot that way. I do own a Drum Dial and a Tune Bot, but they normally sit dormant in a box. Both can be tools to help you along the way, but should be used as tools. I find it helpful most times to tune by ear, and then check tensions with a Drum Dial and use that to fine tune anything that might be off.
I used to obsess about tuning until I watched your 'wrinkly head/not wrinkly head' tuning vid a couple years back.You lifted a heavy weight off my shoulders back then and I never looked back or worried anymore about it.
A tune-bot is great for helping you determine the tuning for each head of your kit and saving those frequencies in the tuner so you can check and retune your drums that same way (especially in a recording studio) every time. The end game is remembering those tones so you can tune them by ear, which of course is much more efficient.
I 100% agree with you. The only thing that confuses me, is... Why does my set sound so good when they are tuned to set frequencies (220 Hz, 330 Hz) and intervals (4ths, 5ths, etc)? I totally agree with your logic, but for an ordinary person like me, tuning to tensions/pitches with a drum tuner, really does make it generally easier to get a consistent sound...
So, you're telling me all the time I've spent developing the C flat infrared helical signature from my 13" rack tom was in vain? And all I really had to do was relax, have fun experimenting and use a little common sense (with a little guidance from BeatDown)? Joking aside, I did try pitch tuning many years ago and learned quickly that it was not worth the effort. What a pain in the keester for such an insignificant result. Not to mention that I had no clue what notes to even try tuning them to. Thanks for another great vid!
Useful video. I do find using an app useful for picking the range but your video made me feel good about making changes after that by ear as your reasoning made sense.
Agree with ya brother. It just doesn’t matter. Early in my playing ‘life’, I tuned to notes for a few years. Man it takes a long time. Then realized that a drum shell has a resonant-sweet spot. THAT is where that thing will sing, regardless of note. (Which can be quite a large range). Make them sound good from one tom to the next, and in turn your kit will sound kick-ass on its own. 🇨🇦👍🏼
*Let me just say for the record that I DO NOT condone trollin’ of any sort ✋🏾😑 But I kinda had fun doing this one 😏 Enjoy the video!*
Drums don't care about your tuning, change my mind. 😏😂
It's an OCD thing. COVID had me doing some repainting, ergo removing light switch covers. Putting them back, I turned all the screws vertically. Just a little touch nobody (but me) would notice. It's a difference that doesn't make a difference. I hear you brother, and I also "get" tuning drums to a particular chord. Cymbals too; I'm always amazed when cymbals match the key of the song! Does it need it? Nah. It's the playing that matters anyway.
@Rob Brown 6'28'' Laughed my ass off!!
I totally agree with you. But I have to say I wish you would tune your rack toms just a tad higher, but that's just me. Btw Still wondering about how you hooked up the ninth mic to the mixer, if you don't mind 👍👍👍
Did not see that coming. I'm going to remake this video using power tools.😁😅😂😁😂😅😂
Greatest intro of all time.
Teeheehee 😏
😂😂
I’ve watch the intro about 20 times already. It’s simply hilarious! 😆👌
Tahdit On // I commented on this a couple days ago and was back last night watching it again. Lol!
Sometimes I type LOL.
But don’t actually laugh.
I really did laugh out loud at that intro.
Like a kid with a fart joke. 👊😂
Rob Brown: "I think tuning your toms to specific notes is kinda stupid."
Terry Bozzio: * *TRIGGERED* *
😂😂
I'll bet his tech agrees with uncle beatdown. 😄
Stage manager: "We're 2 1/2 hours behind schedule. What the 🤬is the hold up?
Keyboardist: "Bozzio's tuning all his 10's"
@@RobBeatdownBrown do re me fa sol la *_ti_*
Terry Bozzio: "nope, still a bit sharp."
Stage manager: "I quit." 🤬🤬
I absolutely lost it when he hit the tom and it was a piano hahahahaha
I could see he was goofing but I didn't know what was coming good joke!
"I don't care what your grandmom told you, SHE WAS WRONG! " Lol You craked me up with that one... 🤣
Rob, that intro just about killed me. I was laughing so hard , I missed the first 2 mins. of the video.
I have a D.W. kit and I've never tuned it to the notes on the inside of the shell. I got a new Gretsch USA Custom kit last weekend. No notes on the inside of the shell, just the gray sealer. I've been tuning my drums using the finger in the middle of the head, and tightening the tension rods until the wrinkles are gone. like you show in a previous video. Works great every time. Thanks Rob for all your great videos!!!
The note on the inside of a DW shell is there to tune the resonant head to that note for the best shell resonance. So its not about tuning the note of the drum to the note thats on the inside of the shell.
Sadly doesn't work with thicker coated heads like Aquarian texture coated, because you don't see the wrinkles.
I’m fifty years old and I’ve been playing drums most of my life. This is one of the best channels on CZcams. I really enjoy Rob’s playing, teaching, input, and enthusiasm. Another quality video. Thank you.
I’m 50 years old and I just started playing a year ago. This lad is the only one I tune my drums too so ya your right?? I spent nearly 48 hrs solid trying to tune my drums on CZcams, then I found this lad, ffs 48 hrs I was bolloxed and me drums sounded like arse.
I'm 39 (not a drummer) bought my 10yr old son a gently used Ludwig element kit & put new batter heads on it & spent days going from video to video getting conflicting info on this subject, downloaded tuning apps & drove myself mad just wanting the kit to b right so it would be good for him to learn on & exciting to play.
Found this channel from recommendations on Reddit & within an hour had everything sorted & sounding great, the snare was my biggest hurdle but now it's good just a touch of unwanted ring that a single moongel took care of.
If not for this channel I'd still be pulling my hair out & my son wouldn't be enjoying his new kit. 🙏
“Nobody cares!” - My all time favorite reason of them all!! Love it! It is absolutely the truth!! I love the dig on DW too. Having toured the factory and talked to John Good and a few of the folks who build them, the purpose of that stamp is so you know the primary pitch of the drum shell without anything added. You know when your tuning a Tom and you hit that “sweet spot” where the shell just comes alive and sings? You are near that core note and the frequencies are just working better than the rest of the range. That so called “sweet spot” and the core note of the shell are somewhat related. But that’s all there is to it. As you said; there’s a range. And it is absolutely true that nobody cares!! Lol... Keep it focused on rhythm!!
Nobaady
I care though
Agreed, get em tuned in the sweet spot so they all sound good amongst another and play. Nothing will improve your sound more than working on yourself and with others, instead of an object.
That sweet spot depends on the natural frequency of the room too.
OMG THAT INTRO WAS PERFECT
BRUH I LOST IT WHEN YOU HIT THE TOM ANDA PIANO TRIGGERD LMAO
It goes back to what you said in another video. "It's not the drums that sound good. It's me." 100% true! I could sit on your set and still sound like an amateur, because that's exactly what I am. And you could sit on my set and sound like a professional, because that's what you are. Great video and thank you very much...
Just love your presentations Rob. Wether or not we all totally agree they are honest, challenging and refreshing. One of the most humorous presenters ever - that's a compliment as humour adds colour to the subject matter and makes it easier to understand.
I've been tuning my drums the way I learned from you for a long time, and my kit sounds badass always.. Thanks for the vid man... Hope all is groovy..
He said: “Never sacrifice your snare drum for the sound of your toms.” 🤯 I’ve spent more than two weeks trying to figure out why my snare drum is buzzing every time I hit the toms. I’ve been looking everywhere until I got into this video wow. I hope this knowledge will help me to fix the issue when I get into my studio.
This is why I chose you as my go to CZcams drum guy. You talk sense and lots of it, humour too and you are just way too cool. Great Video. 👍
Thanks, Rob. You’re a seasoned musician and an amazing educator; experienced, knowledgeable and FUN to be taught with. 🎉
Couldn't agree more, Rob! Always love your videos.
Thanks for all of your videos and hard work, rob. Hope you're healthy and safe.
I started watching and was like, WTH...? when you hit the drum, I died laughing!! I watched it a couple more times!!
always like to come and check some of your videos, common sense and experience and loads of good tips. good job Rob!
Dude, I SO ENJOYED your take on that whole thing! Not only were you SPOT ON, but very entertaining as well. I got the biggest kick out of some of your analogies. There was absolutely NOTHING for anyone to get angry about in this video, (well, maybe my Grandma, lol) Thank you for the enjoyable take on this much debated subject. I'm in your camp with this all the way! 🥁
Hey man just wanted to say that I’ve recently started watching your videos and I really enjoy them. They’re really helpful. And you seem real you know? Keep them coming.
Answered every beginner question I've ever had in two videos
Well said I had a moment of insanity I was thinking of buying a tuning toolbut I thought to myself I'm just tuning for my room not for a gig.I found your tutorials for tuning snare Tom Tom's floor Tom's and kick drums are absolutely what I needed. Thank you for the video.
Mr. Rob Brown, you’re a very reasonable man and I like what you play and the sound you get. I’m glad you’re on CZcams. Thanks!
Man you got it all going on. It's a pleasure watching your vids loaded with a wealth of knowledge and experience and topped off with a heavy layer of common sense.
The guys at Sounds Like A Drum would be frothing at the mouth if ever they see this video 😂. Nice explanation Rob!
I love your easy, quick and very practical method of tuning toms as it averts great frustration and needless agony hahaha love your channel man you are the best!
Mr. Brown, this is the 3rd or 4th video I've seen of yours (1st one was during Covid lockdown when you reviewed "silent" practice heads and cymbals) and your videos always have positive and relative impact on common drum/drumming issues. Thank you sir!
Rob - My first introduction to you was your video, "TUNE YOUR TOMS QUICK & EASY!! - TOM TUNING 2018 WORKSHOP". More than removing my frustration as a new drummer not knowing how to to tune my kit and the science lesson a well meaning drummer friend extended, it gave me lasting confidence to tune all my drums and the ability to relate to the excellent points you make here. Great job.
I had a 32 year break from playing drums but got into playing again with the band a use to play with back then (Horse of Troja)
I had forgetting most of my drumming skills so I had to start all over again. Like tuning my drums. And then I found you👍 And my life gets so much easier 🤗 So big thank you for all of your great videos. I'm very greatful to have found your videos. Have a great week 😎
Simply, great! I am so relaxed now. And the intro is hilarious! All the best!
Another superb video! Couldn’t agree more. Once I started using your tuning method I’ve never looked back
Great points Rob. Keep up the good work.
Nice intro Rob. Always excellent tips.
Thats what I like about your videos. You dont make a rocket science out of everything when it can be done much more the simpler way with the same endproduct. Just like your drum tuning videos, nice and simple with the result the most are looking for not like other complicated videos that make you wanna just leave haha.
You're great! Very interesting contents as always and a couple of laughters here and there...really high standards Rob. Best Drum Channel
Dude....you kill me! I've been playing for a very long time and am super appreciative of the instruction. That said, I tune in as much for the belly laughs I get. Grandma was wrong.
I totally totally totally agree with you Rob! You´ve said (with better words) what I´ve always thought about this topic. Loved this vid!
Great points, great advice man. You are always right on target!
Excellent info, I agree. Sounding good is what matters.
That's a relief! Thanks for all the logic Rob
You nailed it. 😎 You rock!
Rob, you made my day with that beginning 😃 great, thanks for that
Love how you do it Rob!....... You flow with what you know and pass it down to the rest of us so it stays fun and pleasing...... Thanks my brother......😄👍🏾🙏🏾👏🏾👌🏾
Rob: I think you nailed it!! In my opinion, you're exactly right on all issues!
Love the intro...you comedic sense of timing is also on point
Hilarious opening clip! Love it Rob!
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! I AM PRACTICING DRUMS MYSELF AND ALL YOUR VIDEOS ARE SOOOOOOOO HELPFUL !! THANK YOU ^_^. LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR NEXT VIDEOS!!
That piano note had me cracking up!! LOL!!
You are the best. Good comedy and learning channel.
Great Tip Man Thanks 👍
Buddy Rich once said, “You don't tune drums. You tension them.”
Not only once bud😁
Good lesson on tuning drums! Great drummer!!
This is great. I've always done it by ear, use the "crinkle" method and then dial it in from there. Always gotten compliments since I started doing it that way. I try to keep the intervals between toms appropriate but again, it's all by ear
Rob, you killed me with this video dude!😂😂..... I know nothing of notes or scales but i can tell high from low!.... served me pretty well so far!... keep it up dude, absolute gold!🙌
100% correct. Especially about the "Nobody Cares". Tune according to what you like to hear, and in the way that's going to get you there the fastest. i recently changed the heads on the church kit last week for service recording. Took me about 20 minutes to remove all 3 old heads, place the new heads, give them a little stretch, and tune them up to my desired pitches. 20 minutes to reskin the entire kit (minus the kick drum. That one is still sounding amazing) and my sound guy, who also happens to do sound semi-professionally and does recordings all the time, said "The drums sound amazing. I can't wait to record them". Tuning drums is not rocket science. Make sure you're getting a clear tone, and simply your 10 inch tom should be a higher pitch than your 12 and 16.
Great topic! Also, I love the finish on your drums!
Nice! Keeping it real. Keeping it funky. Love ya, man!
ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS !! You're the best 😂😂🤣🤣
I love how straight to the point you are lol legend 💚
Thanks, i like it in simplicity....you are spot on brother...
Rob you're awesome bro... Thanks for such great content!
Im glad I listened till the end. this tuning farce goes all the way back to around 1975 give or take a few years, when a drum store salesman advised me to tune my drums in thirds starting with the bass drum at "G". I used a piano to acomplish this task and when I showed up at my next gig, not one other guy in the band noticed any difference in the drum sounds. so # 11 Rob, if you dont tell anybody, they absolutely wont know. lol good video..
Great sounding drums. Love the snare. Great playing BTW.
Just started and you rock.
Well Said Man !!! You have a great way of explaining lol !!! Excellent Video !!!!
I totally agree! And really laughed out loud in several spots in this video... totally loved the tuning intro to the video! 🤣😂😅😆🤣
Thoroughly enjoyed 👍🏼
💯% agree. I’ve been tuning my drums on Rob Brown way after saw your tuning video few years ago
Love it Beatdown !!👊🥁
This was dead on! After years of tuning experimentation early on in drumming, at some point I found drums had sweet spots and just about any kit will sound good if you find the sweet spot of the lowest tom and tune the rest of the kit to "First Call" (the trumpet call that lines up horses before a horse race.) all the drums will just sound great!
I never play more than a 2 up 2 down kit, usually 1 up 2 down so, with my snares off I tune my snare to the highest tone but when playing with 2 floor and 2 rack I tune them to First Call and the bass and snare to something that just feels right!
This way, as you say, you're tuning the drums not to a specific key but to themselves instead. This has worked for me for over 40 years of drumming.
Great video, Rob !!! Thanks !!
Hey Rob I took notes on your other tom tuning and it was fast and really good. Thanks.
Thanks for this relevant approach that demistify drum tuning, it really helps to turn the keys without mind complications and more than everything, it goes straight to the point. I'm sure this kind of mindset is also a huge source of freedom and happinness when playing, which certainly makes us sound better or at least feel true authentic good vibes, kind of essence of drumming. Your snare sounds so good.
Great video! Tuning by ear is the best way to do things. You'll learn a lot that way. I do own a Drum Dial and a Tune Bot, but they normally sit dormant in a box. Both can be tools to help you along the way, but should be used as tools. I find it helpful most times to tune by ear, and then check tensions with a Drum Dial and use that to fine tune anything that might be off.
Great Video 👍 thanks Rob I agree 100%
Your drums sound amazing
I used to obsess about tuning until I watched your 'wrinkly head/not wrinkly head' tuning vid a couple years back.You lifted a heavy weight off my shoulders back then and I never looked back or worried anymore about it.
A tune-bot is great for helping you determine the tuning for each head of your kit and saving those frequencies in the tuner so you can check and retune your drums that same way (especially in a recording studio) every time. The end game is remembering those tones so you can tune them by ear, which of course is much more efficient.
#1 did it for me! just subscribed!! 63 here and could not agree more! STILL way rockin!!!
Rob i'm a new sub, just wanted to say thanks for all your videos!
Thanks for subbin' 🙂✌🏽
Best intro I have seen in any CZcams video 🤣🤣🤣
Great video and great perspective!
What can I say? I think you're absolutely right, man!
Great video man
I 100% agree with you. The only thing that confuses me, is... Why does my set sound so good when they are tuned to set frequencies (220 Hz, 330 Hz) and intervals (4ths, 5ths, etc)? I totally agree with your logic, but for an ordinary person like me, tuning to tensions/pitches with a drum tuner, really does make it generally easier to get a consistent sound...
You Entertain,,, AND,, Educate,,,, I cracked up at the intro to this!
Oh man you are a genius!
Love you Rob Brown
“......it hits, it dips and it’s out.....” 👋👋 superb vid Rob, lots of great points. Thank you.
FANTASTIC VIDEO
LOVING IT
Rob is right, the sound of your drums are personal and unique to you, don't try and be some one else. Rock on Rob 🥁
I loved the interludes. Your introduction was hilarious.
The piano note when you struck the drum was so perfect.
I agree with your tuning advice.
So, you're telling me all the time I've spent developing the C flat infrared helical signature from my 13" rack tom was in vain? And all I really had to do was relax, have fun experimenting and use a little common sense (with a little guidance from BeatDown)?
Joking aside, I did try pitch tuning many years ago and learned quickly that it was not worth the effort. What a pain in the keester for such an insignificant result. Not to mention that I had no clue what notes to even try tuning them to.
Thanks for another great vid!
Iconic fills....anything that Neil Peart played
Brilliant Rob ha love the intro
Useful video. I do find using an app useful for picking the range but your video made me feel good about making changes after that by ear as your reasoning made sense.
Agree with ya brother. It just doesn’t matter. Early in my playing ‘life’, I tuned to notes for a few years. Man it takes a long time. Then realized that a drum shell has a resonant-sweet spot. THAT is where that thing will sing, regardless of note. (Which can be quite a large range). Make them sound good from one tom to the next, and in turn your kit will sound kick-ass on its own. 🇨🇦👍🏼
This