Tuning a snare drum can be a nightmare. There is one simple detail that you can avoid though to make your life much easier. While common sense would say you should tighten the part of the snare stand that hold your snare to a very high tension this is actually wrong. With too much tension the snare will bend in pitch and not tune properly. To make matters worse a lot of the new heavy duty snare drums can give you so much tension you can bend your rim making it impossible for the snare to ever tune properly again. Get a nice snug fit when you adjust the snare stands tension and leave it there. You will thank us later!