How To Get A HUGE BASS Drum Sound

hey everybody I'm Rick Beato and today is everything music we're going to talk about how to get a huge bass drum sound now you notice I have three bass drums in front of me some people call them kick drums the difference between these three other than being three different brands this is a Yamaha this is a Leedy and this is a Rogers there also as you can see three different sized kick drums this is a 22 inch this is a 24 inch this is a 26 inch what is the difference between them well this one is made out of birch this one is a three-ply maple poplar maple this is also a three ply maple poplar maple the three ply drums here have what we call reinforcement hoops that are made out of maple to keep the drum round now one thing that is common between the three drums is that they're all 14 inches in depth that means from here to here is 14 inches so from here to here here to here okay that is the depth of the drum now I've done hundreds and hundreds of drum sessions over the last 25 years and one thing that I've noticed is that drums that are narrower that our narrow in depth actually sound bigger they also sound punchy air if you look at John Bonham for example he has a massively big kick drum he played a 26 by 14 kick okay so this kick drum has a big sound it doesn't just have a big sound because it's 26 inches John Bonham actually tuned the drum very high like a jazz drummer but one of the reasons that it sounds big is that the air moves through it really quickly and reacts off the second head back in the 1950s and 60s drums were pretty much only made in fourteen inch depth okay so you'd have either 18 by 14 20 by 14 22 by 14 24 26 by 14-inch drums it wasn't really until the mm you start seeing you know 22 by 16 show up in the 80s then you saw 22 by 18 show up in the 90s then 22 by 20 and 22 by 22 would be these ridiculous drums they would be so long and and I would mic the things up and say man that's got no bottom end why is that so I started thinking about it well they have so much more mass it's very hard to get the drum in motion right if you think about it the more mass it has the more energy it takes to excite the drum so that's one element of it you also can't get the air moving quickly through it and get to the other side to either hit off the other head or get out of the ported hole as you notice two of these drums have holes in them you'd notice that by the time it got to there that it wouldn't have as much energy the the burst of the kick drum you wouldn't hear that punch of it speaking of exciting drums here's a clip of John Bonham soul load so you can hear what a 14 by 26 kick drum sounds like [Music] here's another example that's what a 14 by 26 should sound like when tuned and hit properly so I'm going to give you some examples now on my Ludwig kit that's set up over there of another thing that produces a big bass drum cell which is playing with the beater off the head as opposed to what we call burying the beater let's check it out for this demonstration we're using two different bass drum mics inside the bass drum is an electric voice re 20 and outside the bass drum is a very old-school 1960s AKG D 30 that's going to give me the the bottom end of the sound here is an example of burying the beater let's check it out you notice that the kick drum has a lot of punch to it it's it's got really good bottom end but it's tight once it's the rezident head it's not coming back okay so it's a really short sound but real punchy here's some examples of drummers that are playing with the head bearing the beater [Music] [Music] here's an example where I pull the beater off the head and allow it to really open up check it out let's check out some drummers that are playing with the head open the point is to be flexible moving between all the techniques like toe heel heel down toe heel full foot you notice there's a lot more bottom end when the beaters coming off the head there because it's letting the drum resonate that can work really well for slower tempo songs where you have a lot of space between the kick drums but most great drummers will play using both techniques so remember the depth of the kick drum is very important that's not to say that you can't get great sounds out of 16 inch or 18 inch deep kick drums we discussed the technique of burying the beater or pulling off when you bury the beater it actually limits the low end of it chokes the drum out coming off the head let's the drum resonate and is better for slow tempos but you should be able to master both of them that's all for now please subscribe here to my everything news YouTube channel if you're new subscriber remember to ring the bell if you're interested in the Beato book or anything in my store mugs t-shirts this is how I support my channel go to my website at wwlp.com follow me on instagram at rick Beato one i do a lot of guitar videos there that i don't put here on youtube and if you want to support the channel even more think 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Length: 6min 50sec (410 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 20 2019