The Practical Pro Musician

A super-common problem many drummers encounter is the dreaded "my kick drum sounds like I'm bouncing a basketball" issue. Here are a few different ideas on how to fix it...Well hey there, welcome back or more Drummer Daily. I'm happy you're here. My name's Daniel, and I'm going to be your drum coach for at least the amount of time that you listen to this podcast. This weekend, this past weekend, I got a question and I thought I'd share it with you and see if we could maybe help you out with something that you might be facing, which is this. I was doing one of my drive intensives, and the person that I was doing it with, one of his questions was, "Hey, I feel like a lot of times my kick drum sounds like a giant basketball when I hit it." That sound, if you don't know what I mean then you probably don't have this problem. If you relate at all then all of a sudden you'll be like, "Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about."That is a, the kick drum sounding like a basketball, where it just has this really wei