The snare drum rim holds the top and bottom drum heads to the shell and is generally made out of metal. The most common metals used for the snare drum rims are brass, aluminum and steel.

The tension of the top head of your snare is going to give you the biggest impact on the pitch and rebound of the drum. Unlike your toms, the bottom head has less of a bearing on this due to the ...

Clearly, then, it’s vital that your snare sound is always great – perfect, even! The dynamics and tonality of the snare will affect all your decisions about your final mix, and if it’s too dull, too ...

Sam Bertness with a D.C. flag snare drum at Chuck Levin’s, a music store in Wheaton, Md., on July 11, 2019. Bertness works in the drum department and ordered the custom design from a company ...

How a marching snare drum is different from the one in your kit, and the best one for beginners to get marching with for bright big sound.

2016 isn't just the year of the piano in Cleveland. It's also, for the first time, the year of the snare drum, via the 2016 Modern Snare Drum Competition.

But even relative neophytes can air-drum along to Bill Berry’s equally rapid snare salvo—a playfully military-inspired rat-a-tat that jumpstarts the song with an instant kick of bombs-away energy.

The snare drum sound on Metallica 's St. Anger has been a point of contention for fans ever since the album was released in 2003. It was arguably the most tumultuous time in the band's career and ...

Listen to the snare drums and bass drum in the climax of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. The percussion instruments are used to add to the triumphant feeling of the music.

‘Chopstakovich’ is a piece for solo snare drum played over the top of the second movement of Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 in C minor.