Tuning Drums | TOMS

Tuning Toms

----Contents Of This Video----

0:00 - Intro
1:48 - Removing Drum Heads and Cleaning (12in Tom)
3:49 - Putting Drum Heads Back On (12in Tom)
4:50 - Finger Tighten Tension Rods (12in Tom)
6:31 - Crank Resonant Head, Seat, Detune (12in Tom)
7:43 - Tuning Resonant Head (12in Tom)
10:02 - Crank Batter Head and Seat (12in Tom)
10:41 - Crank Resonant Head, Seat, Detune (10in Tom)
11:11 - Tuning Resonant Head (10in Tom)
12:50 - Crank Batter Head and Seat (10in Tom)
13:11 - Crank Resonant Head, Seat, Detune (8in Tom)
13:42 - Tuning Resonant Head (8in Tom)
14:48 - Crank Batter Head and Seat (8in Tom)
15:09 - Crank Resonant Head, Seat, Detune (16in Floor Tom)
15:49 - Tuning Resonant Head (16in Floor Tom)
19:18 - Crank Batter Head and Seat (16in Floor Tom)
19:31 - Rack and Mount Toms, Tune Batter Heads
30:13 - Play Through (Camera Audio Only)
30:25 - Play Through (Raw Drums With Mics)
30:36 - Play Through (Drums With Plugins)
30:49 - Outro

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Let’s Connect!

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****DRUM GEAR BREAKDOWN & LINKS****

- Pearl Drums

Pearl Reference Pure:
8x7, 10x7, 12x8, 16x16, 22x18

Pearl Reference 14x6.5 (20 ply)

- Zildjian Cymbals

14” K Series Hi-Hats

10" A Custom EFX Splash

18” K Custom Dark Crash

21" K Custom Organic Ride

16” K EFX & 14" Oriental China (Stack)

19” K Custom Hybrid Trash Smash

- Remo Heads

Clear Emperor (Toms)

Coated P77 (Snare)

Clear Powerstroke Pro (Kick)

- Vic Firth Drumsticks

5A Barrel Tip

- Hardware

Pearl S1030

Pearl B1030's

Pearl H2050 Eliminator Hi Hat Stand w/Drum Key

Pearl Eliminator Redline Chain Drive

- Accessories

Mambo Cowbell

Drumdots (Original)

Drumdots (Mini)

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Click below to see a visual shot of my setup for this video!

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Proud Endorser For:

- Pearl Drums
- Vic Firth Drumsticks
- Zildjian Cymbals
- Remo Drumheads
- Audix Microphones
- Empire Ears
- Drumdots
- Rtom Black Holes
- Got Pocket? Apparel
- Big Fat Snare Drum

#JrodSullivan

[marloforreal]

I love that "Here Comes the Bride" analogy. Your guide is the first one that actually made my toms sound good.

[shadowmaster]

I can like this video even before I watch it because I know what those toms sound like 😅🙌🏽

[MarineBlueFade]

Never knew the importance of cleaning debris from the head to the drums and the here comes the bride melody is just brilliant. Just in time before I re-skin our church kit. Thanks fam! #gotpocket.

[mikethedrummer]

Thank you for this my guy ..your drums always sounding amazing..we also need a mixing drum course/ tutorial with plug ins and stuff. That would be dope

[JomOnHisThrone]

This is like behind the scene stuff.

Tuning your drums really takes time and patience . You just really need to keep at it, just like J has been doing on @19:38.
Really appreciate this video, this really helps me and validate that the best sounding drums has been spent time on tuning.

[yarpyarp]

can hardly wait for the snare tuning and the recording and mixing!

[miguelpichardo]

Life changing! Thank you for taking your knowledge, time, gear to show us some love tuning!!
✌🏽☺️

[jsqueezy]

I’m so glad you started with the 12 inch tom, I always have the most difficulty with those.

[willgx]

Bro, Man thanks for the tuning tips. You just fine tuned the process I had been using. Keep killin' it!👊🏾💯

[emmanuealmarshallsr]

Thanks for sharing. Always good to see the different processes from great artist. Looking forward to the bass, and snare videos.

[bertmusicofficial]

A lesson on mixing drums would be great. I really love the good work you're doing here.

[therealbrentrolland]

Beautiful video—awesome to hear your voice and education. Mad respect for you. Thank you, J!

[SlowRiderDucati]

Hey man, much thanks for the detailed drum kit tuning process. I am tearing down my kit and I'm following your step by step procedure to clean, retune, and then start sounding awesome. As I note I have a PhD in physics and I wasn't tuning my drum kit properly, thanks again.

[ronniewilson]

I've been tuning drums for a long time and I never thought of using here comes the Bride Melody I've always used George of the jungle Melody interesting keep doing what you doing that's some great wisdom

[Albindrums]

Sounds great!
I usually tune my drums about 2 tones lower than the tone on the shell. Then they sound the same pitch as the shell. And the resonant head a little higher than the other. It’s very good and easy to compare with a tuning fork app.
I tried this new method recently, have not recorded yet.

[jamesharris]

Bro tune hitting that Toms were so soothing for some reason. @ 14:10

[MALAKOCH]

that's fantastic because I finally applied this last method (after using tons of other), and the by feel and ears worked perfectly on my toms ! I checked the note/frequency of each head, and I don't have an uniform interval between heads for each toms xD : so all in the feel, the ears and the "respect" of the drum without stricts formula# and algebra, no hassles.
Thank you sir !

[DimitriFantini]

definitely you have got those toms singing!!

[BBT]

Definitely going to approach my drums with YOUR tuning technique!!!

[tripledeluxedday]

Sounds great. Nice pure tone and they don't choke out.