Monday, November 24, 2014

Make A Marching Tenor Drum Pad

Tenor drums are an integral department of marching band percussion


Put the roll of foam rubber gone on a Apartment lodgings, dry and calm surface2. Habitat the immense round plate on the foam rubber and hint encompassing it with your marker. Repeat this channels three times to brew the pads for the four capacious drums on a tenor drum rig. Developing skills on any instrument requires hours of experience, on the contrary bang restrictions can constitute it ambitious to training at the culminating of times. But, forming a tenor drum pad from a infrequent household items allows you to training anytime of hour.


Instructions


1.Tenor drum rigs are one of the most exceptional percussion instruments in a marching band. The rig is essentially a six-piece drum allot that the player wears all over his midsection. This allows him to ramble and play at the identical age.



3. Habitat the petty round plate on the foam rubber and hint around it with your marker. Repeat this process once more to make the two small drum pads.


4. Place the roll of adhesive felt onto a flat, dry surface. Trace the large plate four times, and the small plate twice with your marker.


5. Carefully cut around the traced lines on the foam and felt with your scissors or utility knife.


6. Remove the paper covering the adhesive on the felt and stick the felt circles to their corresponding foam pieces.


7. Attach a piece of double-sided Velcro to the underside of all six drum pads.


8. Lay three strips of Velcro horizontally across the plywood. Velcro is the best option of adhering the pads to the wooden base because you have the option to arrange the pads in the layout of your choosing.


9. Arrange the six drum pads in the traditional setup of a tenor drum rig which would place the four large pads across the top of the wood, and the two small pads at the bottom.