When to Replace a Drum Head

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Jake Jorgenson. Today we're going to be showing you, I'm going to be replacing this old Evans head - it's got a lot of dust on it - with this new Remo coated Ambassador head. And not only I'm going to show you how to put on a new head, also tune a snare drum, and what you need to do to tune snare drums, separate from tom drums. Alright, today we're going to be replacing this old Evans head. As you can see, it's really beaten. There's not a lot of whole grip on it, dust on it and it just creates a really horrible sound, a lot of dust and stuff like that. We're going to be replacing that with this Remo Weather King coated Ambassador. And these are really good all-around heads, all-around snare heads. They're really good, Jazz, Latin, Rock, just a really good head. Got stuff on that. And before I took this head off, I cleaned the - you're going to want to clean the inside - I've cleaned the inside. Maybe if you want, you can even sand the inside of these drums, make it a little more smooth. Let that sound go around in the drum, really nice and smoothly."