Hi! I am Wes Crawford and now were going to talk about the varieties of drumheads you might want to put on your drum set. This is just a typical white coated head, most of the drumheads we use now are made out of Mylar or different kinds of plastic and still there are many varieties of heads available to us to get different kinds of sounds. A typical snare drumhead will be 14 inches in diameter, most snare drums are, there are smaller ones and bigger ones too, but the standard is 14 inch, so if you go purchase a head, make sure you know the diameter across, the measurement across the center of the drum, so that you need to know the size and you can tell them at the store what size of a head you want. I like coated medium thick drum heads for my snare drum and there are all kinds of specialty heads, all kinds of varieties, but basically drumheads come in thin, medium thickness and thicker and thats for single ply head, single ply means there is only one coat of plastic and I like the white coated texture on it so that you can get a sound out of brushes.

If you use the clear smooth heads on a snare drum and if you play brushes you are not going to get any sound as you switch them. So, other types of heads are two ply heads, so called hydraulic heads. I say so called because some of the companies actually put a liquid in between the two plies and some models of heads dont have that, I believe that most dont and you will see a little light refraction still the head and it looks like may be there is a liquid in there, but the two ply heads and the thicker heads are going to be more centered on the tone of the drum, you will tone out of them and less of the ring and less of the attack sound of the stick on it.

The thinner the head, you are going to get more of a higher pitched ring generally speaking all things equal on the same drum and all heads can get pitted. Once they start getting pitted by hitting on them that is little dense in the drumhead, they are loosing their life very quickly. A tightly tuned drumhead will become pitted less readily then a lightly or loosely tuned drumhead and thats pretty much an explanation of the basic varieties of drumhead. There are many, many good companies that make drumheads right now and it's up to you to try to find out a little bit about each one and the head models they offer and how they will differ, thats a starting point.