A Quick Guide For Setting Up & Tuning Your Kit

If this is your first drum set, Rob Dean will guide you through the essential steps of setting it up. Mike Packer will guide you through the correct way to sit at your drum set. JP Bouvet, a world-class drummer and educator, will teach you the art of tuning your bass drum, snare drum, and toms. He is using a unique drum set with wooden counter hoops. Yours will probably have metal counter hoops, but the tuning is exactly the same. John Good is revered as one of the most influential figures in drum manufacturing. John will share his expertise in Advanced Tom Tuning, drawing on over four decades of revolutionary work in drum design and acoustics. Together, they offer a quick guide to setting up and tuning your drums, ensuring your kit is ready to perform at its best.

Mike held the positions of Dean of Online Programs & International Initiatives at the Musician’s Institute and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at the Los Angeles College of Music. Mike earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Northern Colorado and his Master’s in Education, Leadership, and Policy from Boston University. As a drummer, Mike performs regularly both domestically and abroad. His performance credits include clinics and concerts with the jazz-classical quartet Free Flight, Lorna Luft, Wilson Phillips, Nils Lofgren, Diane Reeves, and The Los Angeles Philharmonic, to name a few. Mike’s teaching experience consists of 30 years of private and classroom instruction and several clinics in the USA, Europe, and Asia. Mike is the author of The Drum Channel Method (Hudson Music), A Bass Drum Technique course for Drum Channel.com, and several articles for Modern Drummer Magazine.

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