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Marching Bass Drum Tuning
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How we tune up the bass drums at Mason (MI) HS. • Starring Mike Schorsch (me!). Volunteer drum coach since 2010-ish • Pitches to Frequencies: https://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreq... • Foam for Muffling: www.foamonline.com • Below is the long-winded explanation for the foam which I originally found at Drumlines.org and re-posted on Snarescience.com. This has been hands down the best ever tool for the bass drums. • *** • when you get to the muffling aspect of bassdrums, its all about personal preference. Many people like a Dry sound, and they add more foam to the drums. While others like less foam for more of a sustained sound. • Theres really no wrong way about muffling a bassdrum, i have my own method in which i foam, and tune my basses, and its worked well with the HS lines, Indoor and Drumcorps line i have taught. • i go to www.foamonline.com • Click on rectangular shaped Foam. • Type in the Length [ pi(d) ], Width (3 or 15 ), and Height (at the bottom of this post) • for indoor: 15 wide or 17 depending on the width of some of the wider bottom basses. (that way it sticks out 1/2 from both sides and you make sure that its touching both heads. and it covers the whole inner shell of the drum.) • for outdoor: Two 3 wide strips per drum • height (thickness): • 16- 1 • 18- 1 • 20- 1.5 • 22- 1.5 • 24- 2 • 26- 2 • 28- 2.5 • 30- 2.5 • 32- 3 • then the length you would have to do the Pi x D formula. • if the drums sound too dry, you can always take an exacto knife and cut the foam to ur liking....if your line does indoor....i HIGHLY recommend the foam all the way around. • I like my bassdrums dry with little sust ains, but enough for the tone to cut through. Reason being, I am very anal about how my basslines play, and if they're going to make mistakes. I want everyone to hear it. And I want the judges to catch it too, so that they can be called out. The drier the drum, the more exposed they are, and the easier it is to tell what type of notes theyre playing. Instead of just hearing all tone and no impacts. • the Thickness is what is listed with the 1 -3 • the width is how wide the foam will be, that is glued to the inner shell... • the Length is how long you want it...if you want it to go all the way around the inner shell of the drum you will use the formula i listed: • Pi x D = 3.14 multiplied by the diameter of the drum... • for example for a 16 bass drum you will do- • 3.14 x 16 = 50.24 thats how long the foam would be... • so: • L= 50.24 • W= 3 • Height (thickness) - 1 • Buy 2 strips and drum 1 is done. • now go to the next...18 • 3.14x18 = and so on. • when you plug the numbers into the website, you will click add to cart and make sure you order 2 of this. Since you will need two 3 strips per side of each drum... • it shouldnt cost more than $40...which is a steal compared to how much you would spend per pack of yamaha or pearl foam that can only be used once. This foam you buy to your specific liking and ur good to go.... • oh VERY IMPORTANT...make sure you order HIGH DENSITY FOAM under the foam type heading..... and for firmness Medium Soft. • The Spray Glue is 3M Super 77.
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