How to Make Custom Drums

Learning how to build your custom drum set has never been eaiser.

Entries for December, 2009

Makedrums.com | How To Make Custom Drums

This video shows many of pictures that are included in the book "How to Make Custom Drums" – Over 100 color pictures that visually explain drum building processes! Learn how to build your own custom drums by reading "How to Make Custom Drums"

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Drum Building 101 – The Pros and Cons of Tube Lugs

Tube lugs seem to be the lug of choice for most “custom” drum companies and for good reasons – they look great on any drum and are usually made out of solid brass which makes them very durable. There is however some characteristics about tube lugs that could make them difficult to work with for [...]

Mozambique Drum Lesson

Here is a really cool pattern that helps you build 4-way independence around the drum set! Steve Gadd made this beat famous and I highly recommend watching his video too.

In this video I am playing my very own custom drum set that I built! You can learn how to build your own custom drum set! [...]

Great Drum Tuning Article

I recently came across a great article about drum tuning technique that I wanted to share. This is a very in-depth explanation of some of the techniques I use to tune my own drums. If you follow Tomas's directions you'll have great sounding drums in no time.

Check it out the full article here – http://www.drummingweb.com/tuning.htm [...]

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