Q&A for How to Make a Homemade Drum

With the French grip you're holding your hands in front of you and your palms are facing each other. You hold the sticks between your thumb and the first knuckle of your index finger. You'll have a pivot point about a third of the way up to this stick. The Germanic and the American grip are both more palm down, with a 45-degree angle, your palms would be facing more down.

Adding mass decreases the pitch. Decreasing the mass increases the pitch. Also, smaller drums have higher pitch, and bigger drums have lower pitch.

Bang the tape, balloon, or leather covering with your mallet. It should produce a sound varying in pitch depending on how big your drum is, which material you used, and how hard you hit it.

A container with an open top and bottom is usually preferred, but a bucket will do nicely and will give a unique sound to the drum.

Duct tape works great and sounds really good. You can choose from many different designs so you can make it look any way you want it to.

You can probably use cloth, but leather produces a better sound. It all depends on how tight you make the cloth.

You can, though it may not sound as good, depending on the type of drum you made.

You could possibly use one, though the playing surface is greatly reduced. The sound could possibly be hampered as well. People have gotten away with it, so go nuts.

Duct tape or masking tape, or you could use painter's tape for a little more color.

No, you can use duct tape, balloons, fake leather and cloth. I didn’t want to use masking tape either so I went with duct tape.

You could use a bucket with super glue or gorilla glue and some other material, or use hardcover books and chopsticks.

The steps would be the same. Just ensure the leather is big enough for the frame you're putting it on.

Add outside decoration and a thicker head, (add layers to the outside of the head) and you can also use a bigger mallet in order to deepen the drum's sound.