More practical advice today. 3 Tips for tuning your snare drum, Including an overview of the method I use to tune my snare drum every time.Hey guys. This is Daniel. I hope you're doing well. I'm kind of laughing still. I just was talking to my wife about how awesome it is that there is a ... I've been looking at the stats for downloads for the podcast and how many people are listening to this and I'm amazed that we're not too far into this and there are already quite a few of you who are listening every day and downloading it. I was like "Man, there's this many people listening to the podcast or who want to hear what I have to say." She was like "That's kind of scary." I was like "Yeah, that's true." People are actually wanting to listen to what I have to say every day it is kind of scary, definitely scary for my wife so that's funny.Today I'm really pumped. I wanted to share with you some more practical tips like I promised last episode. Today I want to share with you three tips for tuning a snare drum. Disclaimer on this: This is not THE way to tune a snare drum, this is not necessarily the best way, according to experts, whoever. This is how I tune my snare drum and I thought it would be worth it to mention it to you. I think I have alluded to this before in a previous episode. Here are my three tips, and if you saw me live on Facebook earlier today I mentioned these as well.The first tip is this: Don't approach tuning your snare drum like you tune a tom. A lot of people are fighting against the tone coming out of their snare drum a lot of times and the reason why they are fighting against it is because they learned one way to tune a drum and they use that method on every drum they tune. Snare drums are snare drums, toms are toms. They are made different and they are called different names because they are meant to sound different than each other. If you are tuning your snare drum the same way you tune your toms, then you most likely are fighting with tuning your snare drum.I have heard some feedback from a few of you who have already said "Yes, please talk more about this because I'm fighting with this all the time." A lot of people run into that problem. They're tuning their snare drum the same way they tune their toms and that is a problem. The way that I tune a drum is like this: I first ... Well let me back up because there is another tip. Before I get to how I tune my drum I want to share with you another tip that kind of goes along with this. A lot of people are always trying to tune their snare into a frequency or a tone range that that drum is not made to go in.

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