Tuning drums efficiently while promoting tone, resonance and projection can be a complicated affair, but our essential guides to bass, tom and snare tuning will give you the tools you need to get ...

Drums are powerful instruments that bring rhythm and life to music. But if they are not tuned properly, they can sound dull, flat, or too harsh. When your drums are tuned well, they produce clear, ...

In the growing plastic instrument arms race and evolution of the peripheral-based rhythm genre, it has become expected that there will be certain imperfections in the various accessories. Whether it's ...

"I only use felt strips, I don't use any pillows in the bass drum. The only muffling I use are felt strips on the front and on the beater. They just give the head a little bit of time to ring. "Buddy ...

A few days ago we told you about Guitar Hero World Tour's flawed drums, and Activision's plan to fix them. Only a day later, the publisher released the official Drum Tuning Kit for GHWT which they ...

Some celebrities aren't just pretty faces. A few of them are also touched with that Yankee prowess for tinkering and invention. In this weekly series, we introduce you to the Patents of the Rich and ...