Which drum to build at which stage, which intervals to observe?

  • sega

    it's nerdiness, in my opinion. Do not forget the main thing that drums are a noise instrument, nothing more. It does not carry any harmony and melody in most cases.

  • insider

    absolutely the right comment.

    drums are instruments with an indefinite pitch.
    it
    makes no sense to tune them to the main key, because the song does not consist of 1 chord, and if you even tune them to a tonic chord, they will already fly out of the next chord by tuning.

    tune them just so that they sound clean among themselves and that's it.

    or assemble a setup like Terry Bozzio's and tune each drum into a specific note (you need at least 12 volumes - according to the number of semitones in an octave, because a barrel with a small one does not count). then you can still play somehow, but at the same time you will have to use only a certain number of volumes in breaks (depending on the chord on which this break falls)

  • scorp

    then the cymbals will have to be sharpened, because they generally don't give a clean note either.

  • andreevmaxik

    I think you're not quite right, the song has a key, let's say it's in C sharp minor, and you play harmony like C #, E, A, F #, then the instrument tuned in C sharp will sound harmonious with every chord.



    If there are no modulations, then hypothetically, you can tune the instrument to match.

    The author's question is that if he configured a barrel in C #, at what interval to build a small one, and so on.



    But in general, yes, I agree that these are wild troubles, but if I had to, I would probably build according to petatonics

  • drummies

    plus to the pentach in this case. Well, then, only volumes and if there are a lot of them

  • Maxofff

    Here it is more likely a matter of the thoughtfulness of the party. The tailor makes filling very harmonious with the music, for example.

  • alex_marchenko

    Holyvar!



    In general, the main thing is that the drums are built among themselves, roughly speaking.



    Still, I don’t think that many drummers, while recording an album, rebuilt their setup for each song.

    It is possible, of course, but the sound of individual compositions on the album will not differ sickly.

  • runner

    You need to worry about this. The times when drums were a purely noise instrument remained far away in the Soviet Union and let them remain there.

  • aroma

    more often drums that are tuned to the key of the composition in the mix sound better. Branded producers chewed on how, what and why a thousand times.



    but it is not always possible to rebuild the drums every time.



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