{"id":25996,"date":"2020-10-23T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=25996"},"modified":"2022-08-22T09:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:04:30","slug":"larnell-lewis-secret-snare-tom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/larnell-lewis-secret-snare-tom\/","title":{"rendered":"Larnell Lewis&#8217; Secret &#8216;Snare-Tom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GUkQbhu5nfQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What if you could have a second snare drum without increasing your kit size?<\/p>\n<p>Larnell Lewis has more options built into his kit than the average drummer (which is fitting as he&#8217;s far from average): one of his &#8216;toms&#8217; is actually a hidden snare drum!<\/p>\n<p>A trick learned from Sput Searight, Larnell&#8217;s third tom is actually a 14&#215;7 snare drum. When the snares are off, it sounds just like a tom.<\/p>\n<p>The key to getting both a good tom and snare sound out of the same drum is to use a thicker batter head (Larnell uses an Evans hydraulic head, which is two plies with an oil layer) and a regular snare side head on the bottom. It&#8217;s important to get the sensitivity on the bottom head just right. If it&#8217;s too loose, you won&#8217;t get a good snare sound. If they&#8217;re too tight, you might get a weird rebound response.<\/p>\n<p>Start tuning it loose and low &#8211; you should see creases when you press your hand in the center. Tune up in very small increments to get the wrinkles out. Then find a lug with the pitch you want, and adjust other lugs to match. If your kit is like Larnell&#8217;s, you&#8217;ll want this drum to be lower pitch than the second rack tom and higher than the floor tom. Make sure that when the snares are on, you don&#8217;t have too much of an effect on the toms.<\/p>\n<p>So why have two snare drums? If you want that 70s funk or Motown vibe, if you want to change snare sounds mid-song, or if you want to have more sound options mid-groove or fill, give this a two-in-one idea a try!<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you could have a second snare drum without increasing your kit size? Introducing Larnell Lewis&#8217; snare-tom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":26020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25996"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31685,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25996\/revisions\/31685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}