Pulling Slack

Pulling Slack is only necessary when no more pegs can be flipped. IMPORTANT: Ensure that your drum is on a soft surface - concrete and asphalt have been known to damage drums. (It can scrape the wood and scuff the natural goatskin head).

It is easiest to pull slack with the drum on the floor and the head pointing away from you.

1. Starting at the knot at the handle...
2. Begin removing one peg at a time. Each time you remove a peg, you want to pull the excess slack from the up and down roping (that's the loose rope that's left when you remove a peg).
3. Continue step 2 until you've removed all pegs and slack from the rope. Try to not shift the head/skin of the drum.
4. After the twist pegs are removed and all the slack is taken up, untie or loosen the knot.
5. and pull on the loose end of the rope (the handle)
6. Retie the knot. The excess rope is used as a handle. Now, re-insert the pegs (next section)