Hi! I'm Wes Crawford and now that we have our head on a drum and we've tightened it up, we want to actually find out if the head is in tune with itself and basically we're finding out did we actually tighten all the lugs equally because if we did, it is going to sound in tune with itself and the way we do this, is we can create somewhat of a nodal point on the drum by pressing in with an equal amount of tension right in the center of the drum and this helps to keep different parts of the head from vibrating as much when you strike a different part of the head. For instance, if I want to listen to the sound right here, next to this lug and I'm going about an inch into the drum head, it helps to keep the other side of the drum from vibrating as much, so you're hearing a little more truly what it is sounding like right here and then we can test opposite sides of the drum and see how they compare.

Then we make adjustments as necessary. I felt that I needed to adjust particularly this lug, make it a little tighter, little higher (Music). I felt these are little higher. So, Ill actually loosen them a little bit, and again, what we're listening to is not so much the tone of the drum, but we're listening to these overtones, these little high rings and sometimes they are better indicator of how in tune it is with itself because you dont want to hit on different areas of the drum and get different sounds if you're like equally away from, far away from the edge. Again, I need to back these up a little bit. That's with the snares off, we are doing all of this with the snares off, that is the snare wires are not touching the bottom head, so we can hear the tone better and not get the in-appearance of the buzz of the snares. If you put the snares back on, you can see what it sounds like. When you tune all of your toms, you want to make sure that they not only sound good by themselves and that's in tune by itself on its own individual drum, each head, but you want to hear what they sound like as a set. I'm just doing a pop session, or a rock kind of session. I think that would sound pretty good for the drums, for the toms, snare has a lot of pop to it and some body. So, we would always trying to find in tensioning the snare drum, we want to find the right compromise between having some attack to it and some snap to it and still having some body and not sounding very thin. Those are some general guidelines for actually tuning your heads and making them playable for the situation you are in.