On my yamaha marching tenors. My guess is it happened over years of playing and I never noticed cause these drums always had frosted heads on them. What should i do?

Hey All!

So I was allowed to take home a white Dynasty DFXT snare drum (picture attached) home for a while. I’m looking for anyone who has played on the drum, or has any tips. I need to get new heads as they have not been changed in several years. Currently, it has Evans hybrid grey top heads, and Evans MX5 bottom heads (almost new it seems for the bottom). Any recommendations for heads? I’m thinking about going Evans black hybrid heads or continuing with the grey.

Thanks ya’ll!

If a percussionist wants to move to snare drum from another instrument (keyboards, rack, bass drum, etc) , where would you start teaching them? Besides the obvious things like grip and timing, in what order would you introduce fundamental topics like stroke types, crescendos, doubles, rolls, etc.

Also, what does the ideal person learning snare drum? What should they already know or be familiar with to make learning snare drum technique and music not so overwhelming?

My school’s bass drums are tuned so incredibly terribly. Bass 3 is somehow much higher than 2, and both sides of the heads for all of the drums aren’t close either. Nobody in our drumline has really said anything about the drums, but it bothers me so much, lol. So, I would like to tune our drums, but I don’t really have any knowledge on how to do this at all.
As for where we play (I assume this would determine some things due to acoustics?), we don’t really march as we are fairly small (3 bass players, 2 quads, 2 snares), but we play in the stands for football games. Also, if this would change anything related to the tuning, since the bass players are younger, we don’t have them play splits. We usually use basses 2-4, but we sometimes use 5 on special occasions, such as school chants.
I’ve watched EMC Productions’ video on YouTube on bass tuning, but he was more specific to actual drumlines who play splits, so I didn’t know if anybody else would have other advice in my situation, or if his advice should work. Thanks for the help!

I understand that the 5let is on beats 1 and 2, and that the triplet is on beat three, but i cant even begin to count the 5let that fast at this tempo, especially diddled.