Drum Kit Basics

Tuning Your Kit

The best instructional video I've found for tuning a kit is called: Drum Tuning, Sound & Design. It's a bit pricey as DVDs go, but if you're willing to spend several hundred dollars on a kit, you should be willing to spend $25 to learn how to tune it.

Beginning to Play

The best instructional text I've found for learning to play the instrument is: Alfred's Beginning Drumset Method. Be sure and get a copy with the DVD.

Rudiments

For stick control, I recommend checking out the Percussive Arts Society, an international organization for percussionists of all backgrounds and levels. It's an academic and professional organization that offers some wonderful, downloadable exercises in several formats for both members and non-members alike.

Here is a link to the organization's web site: www.pas.org

Here is a link to their fine resources on snare drum rudiments:
www.pas.org/Resources/rudiments.cfm

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Greetings! I'm Dr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran. I hold B.A. in Celtic Studies from the University of Toronto, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Maine, and a PhD in Folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. I'm also an author, poet, and musician under the name C.S. MacCath. My long-running Folklore & Fiction project integrates these passions with a focus on folklore scholarship aimed at storytellers, and I bring a deep appreciation of animism, ecology, and folkloristics to my own storytelling. You can find me online at csmaccath.com, folkloreandfiction.com, and linktr.ee/csmaccath.