Kid Guitars

As a parent just looking for an adequate drum set for your kids, you might not be thinking about the importance of keeping the drums tuned. You might not have even been aware that drums COULD be tuned. But have no fear; it’s not a matter of life or death. Still, if you want to instill good maintenance habits at an early age, you should at least familiarize your child with snare-drum tuning.

The sound of a drum is determined by the tension of the skin as it lies across the drum. You can turn the lugs of the drum clockwise to increase tension and counterclockwise to decrease it. Be aware that if you tighten the drum too much, it will be easily broken with a well-placed stick strike. And we all know that kids are all too eager to bash their kids drum set as hard as possible until they learn better.