Tech Tip: How to easily dampen your snare drum like Alex Van Halen! . . . As we all know, when it comes to drums, it’s the little things that can come out of necessity. How Alex Van Halen typically dampened his snare drum was one of those things. If you didn’t know, Alex Van Halen created and achieved his now signature snare sound, notably heard in songs like “Hot for Teacher,” by using a gaffer tape dampening method under the snare drum’s top head or batter head. This technique was used due to

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