Greg, you didn't drop your tuning key and have it land right under your bass pedal. Thats what separates the pros from the rest. 😀

This is fascinating. Never seen anyone tune a drum. I could watch Greg all day.

Absolutely blown away at how good the kit sound mic'd up. Was not expecting that.

Remember, Gregg has been tuning drums for a long time. It may take a while to develop your ear to be able to tune as quick as him. Also, love the gaff tape tents! Really great for helping to control the sustain of the drum. Met Gregg many years ago. Such a beacon of energy and positivity. Glad he's being featured on this channel.

Gregg is not only super talented, he's also super informative -- and super NICE! I always look forward to your presentations with him Rick, and I hope there's plenty more to come in 2024. Happy New Year!

I love how Gregg expressed exactly what sound he was going for... Fantastic!

Gregg is the kinda guy you could hang with and talk about anything...oatmeal, wallpaper paste, medical equipment...I don't care, he's just so down to earth and fun.

Gregg is one of my favorite drummers. Such a versatile player. I met Gregg one time at Berklee in 1993. He was so down to earth and nice. He gave me a pair of his Vic Firth signature sticks.

Greg is one of most supportive guys you will ever meet aside from a hell of a drummer.

Gregg, I’m 52, almost 53, and I still have my Stubbs from seeing you with David Lee Roth in 1986 & ‘88, you guys were the best concert I ever saw, especially in ‘86, for the “Eat em and smile” tour, damn … nothing more that needs to be said. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Greg was my favourite drummer at the Buddy Rich Memorial concert back in the day. Cool drummer but also the coolest dude! Legend!

This is one of the better tuning explanations I’ve seen. I’ve always been a little uncertain about the best approach. I like his organic and simple approach. I’ve been guilty of tuning out too much tone and natural character of the shell. His way gives you choices with a more natural starting point without the brain surgery.

Years ago when I still lived in Portland, Oregon, I was acquainted with Brian Willis, then the drummer of Quarterflash. His drums sounded very musical. When I asked him how he tuned his drums, he told me that he started with the snare and tuned them in descending fourths, beginning with the top head of the snare. So top of snare was a specific tone, bottom of the snare a fourth below, then first rack Tom, a fourth below bottom snare, then bottom head of first rack Tom, a fourth below the top head, continuing that way for the rest of the kit. Then he used powder puffs as bottom head mutes to control, at will, the resonance of the bottom head like a mechanical gate. Very elaborate, but his drums had a very uniquely musical sound.

I’ve always wondered how to tune drums. This is actually fun to watch, coming from a guitar! I find myself being more and more interested in understanding other instruments lately. I think it makes for a better guitar player when you can understand where other musicians and their instruments are coming from.

For me another fascinating thing about this is that he just makes the sound with his voice to communicate to the audience the idea of how he tunes his drums. He says "toom! toom!", "boing", etc. Using technical terms (if any) won't really help less-informed audiences (like myself 😅) to understand the idea of what he's trying to communicate. Just making the sound with his voice made me understand immediately. Awesome.

Gregg is full of joy

Beautiful sound!! Love Gregg, a real PRO and always sharing stories about the greats.

Fascinating! Drums sound great! Thank you all!

Very informative. I have watched lots of videos on this topic and I don’t recall hitting the side of the drum to get a pitch range.i will be trying it out very soon.

Very well explained! I have seen drummers spend an hour or more tuning their kit, this is so fast and efficient, with excellent results!

Cool vid! The first rule of drums is that there *are no rules.* That’s what’s unique about drums. Whatever sounds best to you personally for tuning, heads, setup, muffling, etc. is what you should do.

I just got a new KIT and this helped me SO much. Thank you BOTH!

This is fantastic! My classroom drum set has been sounding rough for a while now, and I will DEFINITELY be applying this to it on Monday morning! Thank you guys so much!

So good. I could watch him play all day. Such natural flow.

Doesn’t get any cooler than Gregg, i remember playing his Vic Firth signature stick. AMAZING talented drummer and all around nice guy for the win!

Greg has always been a great influence I remember being 13yo and drumming a long to a flexi disc I got from Modern Drummer with him playing I’m 50yo now I love he’s still at it

This is the best drum tuning video I’ve seen in years. Really useful stuff. Thank you Gregg!

Fascinating to watch! 👍🏻 I‘ve seen my son‘s drum teacher tuning his kit once but I had absolutely no idea what his approach was 😂

The best drum educator out there. Such a fun guy to be around. And plays like a God.

⭐️ REMO Ambassador heads forever, baby! ⭐️ Always worked for me recording drums.

Your Video Is So Awesome, I’ve Been Playing Drums For 57 Years, And I Tune My Drums, And My Drums Sound Exactly Like Yours, And I Was Unsure If I Was Tuning Them Right, But After Watching Your Video I Knew Then I Doing It Right, Thank You So Much, I Tune By Ear Too. You Rock Brother

Gregg is one of my favorites, an amazing drummer.

This was awesome! More content with him please!

This is how summoning the tone of the Drumming Gods looks like.

Gregg Bissonette is a world class drum teacher. This is a fantastic tutorial on how to tune a kit.

beautiful rythm, sound, explaining and playing

I have never heard anyone mention tuning to the pitch of the shell! That's brilliant.

Clearly Gregg knows his drums and the sounds they make superbly well and can take short cuts that most can't - kit sounds great at the end. I was a live sound engineer a lifetime ago and after learning a lot from a fine drummer early on I often taught and then collaborated with drummers on how to tune their drums better - it makes such a difference. Once I had one part of the head tuned to match the body as desired I would go to the opposite side tuning peg, get them the same and then go round one tuning peg and then back to its opposite, and repeat until we'd got back to the beginning. Always found that quicker and more consistent than going round the circle. One percussionist I worked with told a story of one of his tutors at music school listening to him tuning his kit, asking him to hit certain drums in order and then declared "A Minor" before walking off looking very satisfied!

holy crap that kit sounds amazing.

Awesome interview!!

Learning from the best. Sometimes this channel is magic.

love this fella he a gift to the drumming world

Wow that's awesome sounding kit micd up, he's a amazing drummer.

what an awesome drummer/musician

❤😊 Checking if you tube will not glitch on my third try at sending this for some reason only on this video. Gotta love this!

Greg is awesome , love it thank you so much sir drummer Greg

Man, that kit sounded good at the end!

Simple set ups my fav set up salute Greg B

The Biss,. the gig taker, the hit maker.. This is Gold.

Imteresting and helpful.

Dr. Grove back at it ! Alway a welcomed video

Great Guy and great player!

Cool, i have the dixon cornerstone purple titanium snare, the 6,5x14. Killer snare

this is the best explanation i ever watched

Nice sound!

This is gold.

Awesome Seeing The Wooden Hoops On The Acrylic Shell To Warm Up The Sound 👍

Interesting! This is precisely how I tune my drums!!!👍

I just met Gregg at my friends birthday party and he is the nicest guy you will ever meet ! We had the best time with Fred Coury of Cinderella !! What a night !!!

Awesome !!

I just found my picture of me with Greg from decades ago when he did a clinic in Detroit during his David Lee Roth days. Thankfully he spared us the Bodyglove outfit that day, but I've long been a fan of this dude for just being so damn cool. If you happen to speak with him again I'd love to here him talk about our mutual percussion tutor Myron McDonald from way back when.

He’s a god. Seriously one of the best.

Special dude... great drummer.

I just bought that Dixon Bissonette signature snare. Incredible sound for a reasonable price. Gregg is one of my favorite drummers!

Bissonette... ALL TIME GREAT

Such a talented friendly guy 👌

Love it❤

I really like the floor tom with boing.

Classic Bob Gatzen tuning system ;) Greg ain't messing around!

Gregg is a legend!

A truly great drummer. A cool Canadian.

Amazing

EXCELLENT!!

What snare was Gregg playing in the clip at the end?! Sounded great!

Agree Gregg, coated heads so good for rock and metal 👌 Gregg you are an inspiration for all drummers and smarter musicians. ✌️💛🤘🥁🏴🇦🇺

Greg is taking over for Dom as The Drumming Ambassador.

When he first started ringing them and tuning them while he was talking to you, I was not confident he was going to have a great sounding kit. But that little riff he does at the end proved me wrong. Especially the snare. The snare sounds amazing. That's why he's a pro!

Deep fried crispy snare Awesome!

Love it. I just wish he'd gone into depth on tuning his snare. Does he also tune top and bottom head to the shell? Or does he does he run that reso head up tight? I'd love to know.

All I can think when I see Greg is Drum Channel but I always go back to Summer song.

Those Dixons coming out now look great.

I love Gregg

I have no clue what Gregg is talking about for the most part, and I don't care...he is so engaging! Love him.

Greg is a Very underated drummer😊

Gregg is so good, he makes this look easy …

Un tipo extraordinario.

I do the same with the gaffer tape, but only one loop. I gotta try the three loops like Greg did here!

Greg, great video. Time to ditch tape on the heads and get yourself some SnareWeight leather muffles. They work and look fantastic.

He makes it look easy

The Come Together tea towel thing was too cool.

Beato was “like that” ing, when he did the gaff tape. 😄

Nice to hear someone who likes to tune top and bottom heads to the same pitch.

That is beautiful

At last! I bought this drum bot, new to drums... Bought a nice set of Tama drums from somebody's kid, all outa-tune... Drum-bot has several tuning options... And, here I am , just starting out with drums.... Which tuning??? So confused. Tune to the shell. Thank you!!!

My question what is some of the microphones are that Greg likes to use both in the studio as well as live?

Any tips on tuning the snare? It was the only thing he didn't tune in this video, unless I missed it...

Last bit sounded like Bob Gullotti from The Fringe (w/ George Garzone & John Lockwood)

very useful and cool. Plus i now think every drumkit have at least 2 snares

This is awesome! My wife has drums and I never knew how they were properly tuned.

He starts playing. I just say out loud... holy shi7